Articles
Stories of how small production shops track raw materials, subassemblies and build costs. Each story isn't real, but it could be your shop floor.
Bill of Materials Explosion
The Workshop That Ordered Legs for an Army of Stools
A units mix-up turned a 45-stool order into enough steel for three — and how BOMCost's bill of materials explosion put an end to shop-floor arithmetic.
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The Workshop Watching Leather Eat the Tote Bag's Margin
A price rise cut into slices so small nobody noticed — until BOMCost's Top 10 price swings caught it in one look.
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The Metal Shop With No Spec Sheet Written Down
Twenty years of frame builds lived only in one welder's head — until a new client audit asked to see them on paper. How BOMCost's PDF spec sheet solved it in one click.
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