A bill of materials (BOM) can be reported as finished when no further changes are necessary and you want to post the inventory transactions. You can report a BOM as finished from two different locations in the application.

1. Select Inventory management> Items. Select the BOM item you want to report as finished, click BOM, and then click Report as finished.

   –or–

   Click Inventory management> Periodic> Bills of materials> Report as finished.

2. At a minimum, specify applicable information in the following fields:

   • Date

   • Item number

   • BOMnumber

   • Any applicable Configuration

   • Quantity

3. To post the item issue and receipt transactions immediately, select the Post nowcheck box.

4. Adjustments are made to the journal name used for Bills of materials.

5. Click OK.

   An Infolog message tells you when the process is complete. You can see the posted or unposted inventory transactions (depending on the selection you made) in the Bills of materialsjournal.