BOM Management

Create and evolve a trusted, change-controlled product structure—so every team can move faster with less rework.

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A Single BOM Error Can Derail a Product Launch

What is BOM Management?
BOM management is the discipline of creating and evolving the product definition across a product's full lifecycle—from initial design through manufacturing and sustaining engineering. Propel gives modern manufacturers a single, change-controlled system of record for every component, subassembly, approved supplier, and cost relationship.
Revision Control Precision
When revision history is clear and accessible—seeing what changed, when, by whom, and why—change velocity accelerates without sacrificing traceability.
Cross-Functional BOM Visibility
When every stakeholder works from the same live product structure, handoff delays shrink and costly misalignments between design intent and production reality disappear.
Design-to-Cost Discipline
Cost visibility at the BOM level—including preferred and alternate manufacturers—turns early design decisions into strategic financial ones.

Propel Connects Every BOM to Every Decision

Structured BOM Control

Propel's hierarchical and indented BOM views give engineering, manufacturing, and procurement a shared, multi-level view of every product structure. Parent-child dependencies are always visible, subassemblies are navigable in context, and affected items surface automatically when a component changes.

Intelligent Change Impact Analysis

When a BOM changes, the downstream consequences matter as much as the change itself. Propel One agentic AI analyzes change impact using BOM, Where Used, AML, in-service asset, and inventory data (via seamless integration or MCP) to identify affected items, calculate cost, and flag impacted customers, with humans in control throughout. Explore Propel One.

Costed, Supplier-Connected BOMs

Propel surfaces AML and AVL data directly inside the BOM, including preferred and alternate manufacturer status, historical cost, on-time delivery metrics, and real-time component availability. Cost roll-up across BOM levels gives teams live margin visibility during design and quoting, so no one is pricing from outdated assumptions.
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Inline BOM Redlining
Deep BOM Cloning
Where Used Analysis
Draft BOMs and Parallel Work Streams
BOM Navigator
Inline BOM Redlining
Evolve products with multiple BOM views, draft BOMs, and redlines. Capture tribal knowledge and access design history through contextual communications tied directly to product artifacts.
Deep BOM Cloning
Take an existing bill of materials and rapidly configure a new product structure by making targeted adds, updates, and deletions. Engineers can reuse proven designs as a starting point instead of rebuilding assemblies from scratch.
Where Used Analysis
For any component or subassembly, Propel surfaces every immediate and top-level parent assembly that references it. Teams assess the full scope of a proposed change before approving it, reducing the risk of unintended disruption across the product portfolio.
Draft BOMs and Parallel Work Streams
Multiple engineering efforts can proceed concurrently on the same BOM without sacrificing version control or traceability. Draft BOM support lets teams explore configurations and alternatives in parallel before committing to a formal revision.
BOM Navigator
Easily navigate complex BOMs with a dedicated BOM explorer view for navigating BOM hierarchy, jumping between assembly levels, and viewing parent-child relationships at a glance.
Concept To Customer Solutions for Fast-Moving Product Companies
Propel PLM
Cloud-native, role-based, and easy-to-use product lifecycle management enables enterprise-wide collaboration so teams work smarter, faster, and better together.
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Propel QMS
Complete quality management system that unifies part, process, and supplier quality to deliver safer products, happier customers, and increased profits.
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Propel One
Natively integrated agentic AI automates workflows, surfaces insights, and accelerates every team across PLM, QMS, and PIM from concept to customer.
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Sunday Lawn Care Cut 8 Weeks Off Time to Market
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One source of truth speeds ECOs
Scattered BOM and raw-material data spread across three parties caused a six-week product delay for Sunday Lawn Care. After consolidating to a single documented bill of materials in Propel, the team gained one source of truth and cut ECO process time by 15% within six months.
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FAQ
How does Propel handle BOM changes that affect multiple products simultaneously?
Propel supports changes made in bulk, so a change to a shared component can be applied across every product that references it in a single action, indicated by redlining. Automated, configurable approval workflows route those changes to the right stakeholders, and Where Used analysis ensures no impacted assembly is overlooked before a change is released.
Can suppliers and external partners access BOM data without full PLM access?
Yes. Propel supports sharing with suppliers based on your permissioning using the Supplier Community, giving external partners visibility into relevant BOM structures without requiring a full PLM license. AML and AVL data, including preferred and alternate manufacturer status and on-time delivery metrics, are managed in context and shared with the right parties through controlled, permission-based access.
How does Propel's AI support BOM-related change decisions?
Propel One analyzes change orders, Affected Items, BOM hierarchies, AML data, Where Used relationships, in-service assets, and inventory costs to generate a complete picture of any change's downstream impact. It calculates cost and identifies affected customers automatically, but requires explicit user confirmation before taking any action beyond summarization. Learn more.

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