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Manufacturing and BOMs

I’m currently doing some work for a food manufacturing company. During various discussions we’ve been having regarding BOMs for their products it’s become evident that the food industry has to overcome various challenges that are atypical of manufacturing as a whole.

These issues centre around the following observations:

the fact that BOMs are likely made up of formula recipes rather than discrete components

that recipes tend to have yields when ingredients are cooked together.

there is a lot of added complexity regarding use by dates, food perishing, ingredient traceability, ingredient readiness (by which I’m referring to if an ingredient is frozen but needs thawing for it’s next stage of production or something similar).

Anyway – I found this short whitepaper to be extremely useful in claryfying some of these ideas and will likely refer to it again – hence it being on my blog.