30/06/2026
For ETO manufacturers, the Bill of Materials isn't just a document: it's a deadline.
And right now, that deadline is costing you more than you think.
Here's the pattern we see constantly: Sales closes a deal. Then everything stalls for 2–4 days while senior engineers rebuild BoMs from memory, reverse-engineer past jobs, and manually assign routing operations on a work-center-by-work-center basis.
In a high-mix, low-volume environment, that's not a minor inconvenience. It's the constraint limiting your growth.
The real cost compounds fast:
· Raw material lead times now average 81 days (up 25% from pre-pandemic levels)
· Electronic components run 12–40 weeks out
· Every day of BoM delay pushes your first PO further back, and expedite fees follow
The fix isn't hiring more engineers. It's building systems that capture the tribal knowledge living in your best engineers' heads and turn it into a structured, repeatable process.
That's exactly what Novobi does for ETO manufacturers inside Odoo: encoding decision logic from historical BoMs into a configurator that generates a complete, multilevel BoM the same day a sales order is confirmed.
The results our clients are seeing: 70–90% reduction in BoM creation time. 1.5–2x engineering throughput. Long-lead POs placed on day one. Quote-to-actual cost variance dropping from double digits to single digits.
Your senior engineers should be solving engineering problems, not reassembling spreadsheets from the last similar job.
➤ Read the full breakdown here: https://novobi.com/how-novobi-helps-eto-manufacturers-escape-the-bom-bottleneck/?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=eto&utm_medium=social_post
