Standard Bills:
- Must represent an actual inventory item
- A bill that lists all components required to produce a single parent item or finished good
- Represents actual finished products or assemblies
- Options can be added to Standard Bills
Engineering Bills:
- A hypothetical bill which is usually created while a product is in its design stage
- Does not have to represent an actual inventory item
- Cannot be used in Production Entry, Disassembly Entry, or Sales Order Entry
- Can be converted to a Standard Bill and the item must be a valid inventory item
Inactive Bills:
- Represents assemblies of finished products that have been restricted from the production process
- Normally classified as inactive when being defined, replaced by another bill, or when the parent item is no longer required
- Inactive bills are only used for reporting purposes
- Cannot be used during Production Entry or Sales Order Entry
Kit Bills:
- A single-level bill used to define a group of items that are normally sold as a single unit
- Can contain comment lines
- Kit bills cannot contain miscellaneous charges
- Must represent an actual inventory item defined as a Kit product type item
- Can be committed or relieved from a sales order or a sales order invoice as pre-assembled or assembled to order
- Items are committed and relieved when the item is included on a sales order or sales order invoice
Phantom Bills:
- Not a valid inventory item, but a list of components that are used on other bills. Will relieve items from Inventory still
- Represent assemblies that are not stocked in inventory
- Reduces the need for data entry for items that are always used together but never stocked as an assembly
- Phantom bills cannot be included as components on Phantom or Kit Bills
