SOFTWARE FLEXIBILITY ISSUES CAUSES WASTED ENERGY Flexahopper has a complex product mix comprising over 600 items and several dozen distributors which makes for a difficult management task in materials planning, BOM maintenance and production scheduling. Many of the products produced are often changed based on custom ordering. Under their old system, having a non-standard or custom BOM based on a sales order was next to impossible to maintain as it would require creating a new BOM for every custom order. Within their old system, changing a BOM item was very tedious as each BOM would have to be individually changed when a raw material that was common to many BOMs was changed. This led to outdated and inaccurate costing of BOMs and production. Material planning was a guessing gam

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