BOM Audit Agent

BOM Audit Agent reviews the bill of materials against actual material consumption, flagging scrap/waste deviations.

What Is the BOM Audit Agent?

BOM Audit Agent is the specialist behind the bill-of-materials screens in Manufacturing — it compares each BOM with the material actually consumed on the shop floor and flags scrap and waste deviations for the planner and the cost accountant.

BOM Accuracy — A BOM that says what the product really uses
Scrap & Waste — Scrap traced to the line, the shift and the cause
Cost Variance — What the deviation costs, in money not percentages

In one sentence

BOM-versus-consumption checks, scrap analysis and priced deviations — one specialist behind the bill-of-materials screens in Manufacturing.

How the Agent Builds Its Context

Every screen in Manufacturing follows the same two-step approach, and BOM Audit Agent always provides the second step:

Step 1 — Find the relevant records → Step 2 — BOM Audit Agent reasons over them

Step	What it does
Step 1	Searches the tenant's own live records for the ones relevant to the item being reviewed, entirely on the user's own device.
Step 2	Takes the most relevant matches and reasons over them the way a specialist in that field would, producing the structured finding the screen displays.

The candidate pool is always the tenant's own records

BOM Audit Agent works with the records already on file for the tenant rather than an external archive, so every finding can be traced back to something the team can open and verify.

What BOM Audit Agent Checks

Each area below is backed by its own dedicated reasoning, grounded in the same kind of records a specialist reviews every day:

Area	Check	What it looks at
BOM Accuracy	Line-by-line check	listed vs. consumed
	Missing components	used but not in the BOM
	Obsolete lines	in the BOM but never used
	Revision drift	older versions still in use
Scrap & Waste	Scrap rate	per material and product
	Line and shift	where the waste concentrates
	Recurring patterns	the same deviation again
	Allowance check	within or beyond allowed waste
Cost Variance	Priced deviations	at current material cost
	Impact ranking	largest cost first
	Standard cost drift	BOM cost vs. actual
	Planner hand-back	corrections go to the owner

Where BOM Audit Agent Fits

BOM Audit Agent has no ledger of its own — every record lives in the add-on's own tenant-scoped store. Its job is strictly the reasoning step: given the context a screen already assembled, produce a structured judgment and hand it back to the person responsible for that record.

A reasoning layer, not a data layer

BOM Audit Agent never reads or writes stored records directly — it receives the context the calling screen assembled, reasons over it and returns a result. Saving that result and any follow-up action remain the screen's responsibility, and every finding is handed back to a person rather than acted on automatically.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is BOM Audit Agent specific to Manufacturing?

Today, yes — its capabilities exist to serve the Manufacturing screens. The same two-step pattern is used by Patent Agent, Customs Agent and Compliance Agent in other parts of TotalApp.

Does BOM Audit Agent make final decisions on its own?

No. It returns findings — a flag, a discrepancy, a recommendation — and hands them back to the person responsible. Nothing is filed, paid, approved or sent automatically.

What happens if the agent finds no relevant records?

It says so instead of guessing. The finding is returned with a note that no supporting records were found, so the reviewer knows to check manually.

Where can I see BOM Audit Agent in action?

On the BOM Audit Agent product page, which walks through a typical session, or directly in the app on the Manufacturing screens.