Intercompany and multiple site considerations
Consider the following scenario, which explains intercompany and multiple site considerations that you should keep in mind.
Your organization specializes in high-tech product development but outsources manufacturing to a different organization, a trusted supplier with advanced production capabilities. The engineers at your organization finalize the product configuration and design specifications at their headquarters. After management approves the product configuration and design specifications, your team meticulously creates and deploys the bill of materials (BOM) and production routes to the other organization's manufacturing facilities.
Simultaneously, your organization releases the product variant across all companies that are involved in the supply chain, ensuring consistency and synchronization. This strategic approach allows your organization to use specialized manufacturing expertise at a different organization while maintaining centralized control over product specifications and configuration.
In summary, if configuration is done at a site or a company that's different than the site or company where production occurs, Supply Chain Management creates the BOM and route and puts it at the supplier site in the supplying company. Then, the system releases the product variant to all companies that participate in the supply chain.