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… materials, the hand-off to manufacturing will be made much smoother.  – Engineering Bill of Materials: The Ins and Outs – Arena Solutions 
In addition to the benefits noted by Arena Solutions, I have observed other benefits, which I have listed below:

A quality BMMS reduces the BOM management required for both ERP systems and external planning systems if a BMMS is not in place.
A quality BMMS manages BOM information in a far superior way to any ERP or planning system. Primarily, all changes are made in order with excellent BOM management data functionality and then copied over to the ERP …

… set by the system configurator.

As with all useful recipe/BOM management applications, designers use them intensively, and many of the iterations that they create will never find their way to the production planning system. However, the sub-portion of the overall recipes that are created can be sent to ERP systems (and from there to planning systems) in a complete form. Recipe/BOM management systems allow for the natural duplication of recipes by using a template before developing a new design or product. In the case above, a food designer is adding a series of ingredients (which are only …

… To provide some product for the PLM market, SAP at some point decided to create a false solution, which simply highlighted various life-cycle functionality that already existed in various applications. They made some very minor adjustments to the material master, which is where product data is stored in SAP ERP (aka ECC/R/3). What this means is that various pre-existing modules have been created around the material master to meet PLM requirements. This is much like SAP’s non-existent digital asset management solution – where digital media are entered as materials into SAP. This was one of …