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Supply Chain & Procurement · Production
Generative AI / BOM Automation
Production BOM and ERP synchronization
Live Core high effect
Core capability
The system reduces manual BOM (Bill of Material) preparation work by extracting parts and quantities from documents and aligning them with enterprise systems used for procurement and production.
How it works
The system reads drawings, PDFs, and spreadsheets, extracts parts and quantities, standardizes inconsistent naming, and connects the results to enterprise records so BOM preparation requires far less manual work.
Application here
AI detects changes in engineering documents and keeps the bill of materials synchronized across enterprise systems.
Business impact
This reduces a major source of production error by preventing BOM mismatches between engineering and manufacturing systems.
Limitations
Silent sync failures can push incorrect data into production systems. Conflicting BOM versions still need human resolution.
In production
This is already used to cut manual BOM preparation effort where teams currently piece together parts data from multiple disconnected documents.
Research
The frontier is moving toward systems that not only read BOM data, but understand component relationships, detect inconsistencies, and connect the result more directly to sourcing and planning work.
Examples
Using RPA and AI to automate bill-of-materials in manufacturing
Description: European automotive manufacturer deployed RPA bots to extract parts lists from engineering drawings and populate SAP ERP, reducing BOM creation time by 70% and eliminating duplicates for production sync.



Using RPA and AI to automate bill-of-materials in manufacturing
Description: Medical device manufacturer used RPA to automate BOM updates across global sites during engineering changes, cutting ECO processing time by 50% and ensuring PLM-ERP synchronization.
https://bazucompany.com/blog/using-rpa-and-ai-to-automate-bill-of-materials-in-manufacturing/
Sources
SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing — ; Oracle Manufacturing Cloud —
https://www.sap.com/products/scm/manufacturing-execution.htmlhttps://www.oracle.com/scm/manufacturing/