This article will explain how to enrich the factory Bill of Materials with additional chain specification and costing data specific to an Enterprise retailer.
💡 Useful Tip
The chain section is designed for flexible user and can hold different types of chain data:
- pure chain (eg a large men's curb bracelet)
- pendant chain (eg a small thin chain used to hang a pendant)
- chain as a component (eg strands of chain in a tassle earring)
⚠️ Warning
Your Bill of Materials must already contain a chain in order for you to enter additional specifications and costing data. If your Bill of Materials does not already contain a chain read how to add this here.
Step 1: Inside your Cost Submission, locate the Chain Detail section on your Bill of Materials - displaying a red icon to indicate incomplete data - and open the accordion by clicking on the chevron to expose the data fields:
Step 2: Now you can see the fields, you can see the basic specification added by the factory at the time of initial factory upload. Click the edit pencil icon to open the chain modal:
💡 Pre-populate From Feature
If your customer has enabled a Sourcing chain grid to pre-approve chain specification with you, then you will be able to see a field at the top of the modal enabling you to select from the customer's permitted chain specification. You will need to reference the number of the chain you wish to use from your customer's grid, select it, and this will populate all the fields automatically for you.
Step 3a: The modal is where you can enter your additional specification and costing, specific to your customer:
💡 More than one chain in your Bill of Materials?
In rare cases, single products will contain more than one type of chain. For example a multistrand fashion bracelet featuring both curb, singapore and anchor chains. In this case you will see one column per chain loaded in the Bill of Materials, and when you open the chain modal it will display 1 of N in the top right corner. You can navigate between them using "back" and "Next" controls at the bottom of the modal.
Step 3b: (optional) If you have more than one chain to enter additional data for, repeat the process for each chain in your Bill of Materials:
Step 4a (Optional): If your Cost Submission has Duty Allocation configured to Component then you will see two duty related fields appear:
- Imported From (drop down list of countries)
- Duty Rate % (non-editable)
The Duty Rate % field will automatically index against your customer's Duty Grid and populate a relevant value after you select a country in the Imported From field.
Step 4b: If your customer has enabled a Labour grid and an exact match can be indexed between your Bill of Materials and the customer grid then your pre-agreed labour will automatically populate the modal.
Step 5: After you save your additional data in the chain modal, exit it and you are returned to the Cost Submission. Your additional data is now visible, and the red icon indicating incomplete data no longer displays:
Step 6: After you have completed your additional chain data, your Materials table will update automatically:
- The chain section of the table will update with the values you have entered
- The piece net weight will adjust automatically to subtract the chain weight(s) entered in the chain modal