Patent ID: 7610259
Filing Date: 2009-10-27
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A management apparatus for controlling data of bill of material (abbreviated as BOM, hereinafter), which manages plural sets of BOMs compiled by different BOM controlling schemes, comprising: a BOM scheme retrieval means that is to retrieve a BOM controlling scheme to be used as a reference BOM controlling scheme from a memory means, a BOM input means that inputs a BOM file to the management apparatus, the BOM file having a different BOM controlling scheme than the reference BOM controlling scheme, a BOM rearrangement means that rearranges the BOM filed in the BOM file having the different BOM controlling scheme to meet a BOM compiled by the reference BOM controlling scheme, wherein if a part number assigned a component in the input BOM file is different from a part number assigned to the same component of the BOM in the reference BOM controlling scheme, the part number of the input BOM file is renumbered to match the part number of the BOM in the reference BOM controlling scheme.