Proof
Assess BOM Risk Before It Becomes a Redesign, Shortage, or Compliance Problem
A BOM is not just a part list. It is where lifecycle, supply, and compliance risk come together.
A product can look stable while risk is already building inside its BOM. One part may be obsolete. Another may have no viable alternate. Another may be single sourced. Another may have low inventory. Another may create compliance exposure.
Individually, each issue may look manageable. Together, they can create redesign pressure, sourcing delays, production risk, or validation problems.
That is why teams need BOM-level visibility, not just part-by-part research.
DEFINITION
What is a BOM risk assessment?
A BOM risk assessment evaluates the components in a bill of materials for lifecycle, sourcing, inventory, compliance, PCN, obsolescence, and alternate availability risk so teams can prioritize action before issues affect production.
WHAT A BOM RISK ASSESSMENT SHOULD SHOW
A useful BOM risk assessment should identify:
- Obsolete parts
- NRND parts
- Lifecycle risk
- Years to end-of-life
- PCN and EOL activity
- Single-source exposure
- Missing or weak alternates
- Inventory and lead-time concerns
- Compliance risk
- Counterfeit risk
- Supplier and manufacturer risk
- Affected products or assemblies
The BOM Manager ROI material identifies core best practices as scrub and validate, monitor obsolescence, manage compliance, and find second sources.
WHY MANUAL BOM REVIEW BREAKS DOWN
Manual BOM review is slow because teams have to gather, validate, and interpret data across many sources.
- Lifecycle status may live in one place. Inventory in another
- Compliance data somewhere else
- PCNs may be missed
- PCN and EOL activity
- Cross references may require engineering review
- Alternates may have to be compared manually
The InVue BOM Manager material lists recurring time savings from BOM-level risk visibility, inventory and lead time access, part search integration, automatic BOM refresh, PCN/EOL dashboard alerting, unique part counts, lifecycle health scores, and more efficient BOM importing.
WHAT BOM MANAGER HELPS SURFACE
Lifecycle
Active, NRND, obsolete, EOL risk, years to EOL
Sourcing
Inventory, lead time, distributor availability, single-source risk
Compliance
RoHS, REACH, material declarations, regulatory exposure
Alternates
Crosses, substitutes, replacement options, multi-source opportunities
CUSTOMER PROOF
Soberlink Cut Replacement Research from a Day to Under an Hour
Soberlink’s VP of Engineering described SiliconExpert as invaluable when a supplier pushed a delivery date out by 12 weeks and the team needed to find an alternate quickly.
The case study also states that automating the process shortened replacement research from a full day to under an hour.
“SiliconExpert was invaluable when a supplier pushed a delivery date out by 12 weeks and we needed to find an alternate quickly.” Automating the process shortened replacement research from a full day to under an hour.