Title: Bills of Materials and Production Tracking | ZMOS
URL: https://zudoworks.com/zmos/production-and-bom/
Description: ZMOS bills of materials with revisions, scrap and cost roll-up, work orders with routing steps and work centres, and production tracking for small shops.
Updated: 2026-11-03

# Bills of materials and production you can follow

Each manufactured part has a BOM: components, quantity per unit, scrap and a revision. A work order takes the BOM, plans routing steps across your work centres and lets you follow what is done, what is waiting and what it has cost so far.

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- BOM revisions with scrap percentage
- Material cost per unit from current item costs
- Routing steps and work centres
- Job cards and barcodes to print

![ZMOS bill of materials form with components, quantity per unit and scrap](https://zudoworks.com/Asset/img/zmos/bom-form.webp)

The bill of materials editor in ZMOS. Sample data.

## How production runs in ZMOS

1. **Bills of materials**

   A BOM per manufactured part, single-level, with components, quantity per unit and scrap percentage. Release a revision when the design changes; old jobs keep the revision they were built to.
2. **Cost roll-up**

   The editor shows each component's current cost and the material cost per unit, so quoting starts from real numbers.
3. **Work orders**

   Open a job for a part and quantity with a due date and customer reference; release it to reserve the material requirement; start it on the floor.
4. **Routing and work centres**

   Plan the steps a job goes through (cut, bend, weld, assemble) at named work centres with machine types; log labour hours per step.
5. **Job cards and barcodes**

   Print the job card as a PDF or scan the barcode at the work centre to open the job.

## Production tracking without a terminal

A supervisor with a phone can see every open job, its step and its material.

Jobs by status, jobs due this week and movements per day sit on the dashboards; workflow rules can e-mail the owner when a job is completed or a status changes. Zudo AI answers "which jobs are late" from the same data.

## What it does not do

ZMOS does not plan finite capacity across machines or run MRP from a forecast. Reorder points and per-job purchasing are supported.

- Finite scheduling: no
- MRP from forecast: no
- Multi-level BOM explosion: not in this release

Watch it work

## See this part of ZMOS on video

Recorded in the product itself, narrated in English, start to finish.

[![Video thumbnail: Chapter 8. Bills of materials](https://zudoworks.com/Asset/img/zmos/bom-form.webp)Chapter 8. Bills of materials](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_AptIFS1Jo&t=2058s)

34:188. Bills of materials

Building a bill of materials with components, scrap and the cost roll-up. The clip starts at this chapter of the full two-hour build; every step is on sample data and the current version.

[All 38 chapters and the 20-minute tour](https://zudoworks.com/zmos/videos/)

## Questions

Does ZMOS support multi-level BOMs?

Not in the current release. BOMs are single-level; a sub-assembly is its own manufactured part with its own BOM and job.

Can I change a BOM after jobs have used it?

Yes, by releasing a new revision. Jobs already opened keep the revision they were created with.

How do I print a job card?

From the job: Job card (PDF) prints the card; Barcode prints a label that opens the job when scanned.