Define Products and Materials

Organise products, create components and variants, build BOMs, and choose the correct material tracking approach.

Follow this stage in order

Use the recommended hierarchy to keep products, reporting, and future growth organised.

Create the material and part records that will be used in Product BOMs and shop-floor validation.

Create finished-product definitions and decide when Variants are useful.

Define exactly which Components and quantities are required to build the Product.

Move the reviewed BOM from draft to the active production version required by Routing.

Choose how components are traced while keeping finished production aligned with Forge's unit-serial model.

Each numbered topic prepares information used by the next one. Complete its readiness check before continuing.