Bill of Material Generation Software - PLUS BOMGen

• Get Material and Cost estimate

• Prepare the Quote / Proforma Invoice for  Modular Office  / Modular Kitchens projects

PLUS BOMGen is Bill of Material Generation software that estimates the material quantity required of various components that go into making of various modular furniture products, based on the data provided by the RFQ (Request for Quote). Also, it will be able to give the cost of processes involved and thereby generate a quote or proforma invoice for the project. Once a quote is generated, the status is set to "generated" and changes as it moves through the cycle of being converted to an Order.

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PLUS BOMGen - Bill Of Material Generation Software.

• Modify the quote with a few changes in parameters, track unconverted ones.

The option to modify the quote is available.  Changing just a few parameters, one can observe the changes in the quote and then finalize on the best possible changes.  The software keeps track of all the revisions made to the quote.

• Import data from Excel or CSV files.

PLUS BOMGen has a feature - copy-paste following the standard windows command (CTRL-C to copy and CTRL-V to paste ).  Select the columns that need to be copied from MS Excel worksheet, copy and paste into the required columns in PLUS BOMGen.  The data gets copied with minimal chances of errors in transfer.

• Estimates the optimized material requirements.

PLUS BOMGen integrates with PLUS 2D and PLUS 1D seamlessly.  It starts a PLUS 2D job, transfers the required data to PLUS 2D,  and after optimization in PLUS 2D and exporting the optimized data, again imports the required information to provide the optimized quantity of various material required, be they two-dimensional or one-dimensional.

• Analyze quotes that were not converted to orders.

PLUS BOMGen keeps track of quotes which have not been further processed.  It has reports that will highlight the unconverted quotes for further analysis.

• Contact Management - be in touch with your customer.

Make use of the CRM module, which is meant for this purpose.  This allows you to select a set of customers based on some criteria and allow information to be passed on to them in form of standard letters or formats.

• Built-in Product Library, use product within another product.

PLUS BOMGen has a built-in product library with sample products which you may use directly.  You can add your own products by providing the necessary information.  You can also create a new product as a combination of products already present in the product library.

• Change & match colors, material of furniture across an area

Using BOMGen, you can change certain characteristics of all products within a certain area.  For example, you will be able to change the material from MDF 1/2 inch A quality to MDF 1/2 inch B quality for all items where the former is being used.  Similar is for color.

• Schedule meetings and track the activities of the sales team.

PLUS BOMGen has an Organizer that helps your sales person to schedule meetings and also to record all information pertaining to the meeting.  Tasks can be assigned to sales persons and also can be transferred from one to another.

• Interface the software to billing / management software like Tally.

PLUS BOMGen has provision to export data as a CSV or a Text file as per the format specified in the Output File Interface format documents (TODO: Provide a link).