AutoCAD Electrical 2013 with ERP system

[Anonymous]

We are migrating over to AutoCAD 2013 Electircal, ERP system (Epicore) and using ProFile as the file storage from standard AutoCad with hand created BOM's. With being a custom machine builder, some items have a long lead time that need to be ordered earlier then the entire drawing package is done. By what I am being told, I will have to create a BOM for long lead items in AutoCAD 2013 to then upload into Profile to push over to Epicor. Our plan is to go with BOM's for each OP station/enclosure, but what I have tried has led to possible double ordering of the part since i would put in the panel drawing to show the part. I have tried to list qty as 0 but it then shows up as 0. The idea is not to manual edit the BOM after it is created. Am I overthinking process? 

Jason

[ccad2509]

different issue but maybe the answer for you

my problem was we have a lot of free issue equipment from our clients

so i set a user attribute as a free issue item  yes / no

then our boms were exported out as an excel spreadsheet and then just filter out our free issue equipment

same approach should work for long lead items

[Anonymous]

I could see where this could help, but directive from higher ups don't want us to manually manipulate the BOM.

Jason

[ccad2509]

then solution is to turn the problem on its head

if you cant modify the data coming out of acade then the erp system must have a function where you can filter the data arriving

same solution applies the erp system then looks for a column in the data with long lead time information and sorts it as required