Bills of Materials
Finally — an IMS that understands you make things.
Manufacturing inventory management that tracks every component from raw material to finished good. Know exactly what you can build from what you have on hand. One system for the full production lifecycle.
Most inventory tools stop at the finished product
You don’t just sell products — you make them. You order raw materials from suppliers. You measure, mix, fill, assemble, label, and pack. A single finished SKU might require five, ten, or twenty components.
But your inventory system only sees the end result. It can tell you how many lip glosses are on the shelf, but not whether you have enough tubes, pigment, and labels to make the next batch.
When a supplier is late, you don’t find out until production day. When a component runs low, nobody notices until the line stops. Your inventory tool is blind to everything upstream of the finished good.
Define what goes into what you sell
A Bill of Materials is a recipe. Full component tracking across every level of your bill of materials — raw materials, sub-assemblies, and finished products. It lists every component needed to produce one unit, and how much of each.
Finished Product
Lip Gloss - Sunset Rose
When you receive a shipment of 500 tubes, the ledger records the receipt. When you build a batch of 100 lip glosses, the ledger issues 100 of each component and receives 100 finished goods. Every movement tracked, every gram accounted for.
How many can you build right now?
The most useful question in manufacturing isn’t “how many finished goods do I have?” — it’s “how many can I make from what’s in the warehouse?”
Real-time potential-to-build gives you production planning visibility — know what you can build before you commit to an order. Carpe Inventory IQ looks at your BOM, checks your raw material inventory, and tells you the maximum number of units you can produce — limited by whichever component runs out first.
Lip Gloss - Sunset Rose
Potential to build
| Component | On Hand | Per Unit | Can Make |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lip gloss base | 2,250 ml | 4.5 ml | 500 |
| Pigment - Sunset Rose | 180 g | 0.3 g | 600 |
| Flavor oil - Vanilla | 60 ml | 0.1 ml | 600 |
| Tube - Clear 10ml | 470 pc | 1 pc | 470 |
| Applicator - Doe foot | 520 pc | 1 pc | 520 |
| Label - Sunset Rose | 490 pc | 1 pc | 490 |
| Box - Single unit | 800 pc | 1 pc | 800 |
Lip gloss base
On Hand
2,250 ml
Per Unit
4.5 ml
Can Make
500
Pigment - Sunset Rose
On Hand
180 g
Per Unit
0.3 g
Can Make
600
Flavor oil - Vanilla
On Hand
60 ml
Per Unit
0.1 ml
Can Make
600
Tube - Clear 10ml
On Hand
470 pc
Per Unit
1 pc
Can Make
470
Applicator - Doe foot
On Hand
520 pc
Per Unit
1 pc
Can Make
520
Label - Sunset Rose
On Hand
490 pc
Per Unit
1 pc
Can Make
490
Box - Single unit
On Hand
800 pc
Per Unit
1 pc
Can Make
800
Potential to build
No spreadsheet formulas. No guessing. The answer updates in real time as materials arrive and get consumed.
Kits vs. Assemblies — both supported
Whether you need kitting software for dynamic bundles or assembly tracking for pre-built products, both workflows are native.
Dynamic Kits
Build-to-Order
Components stay as individual items until a customer orders. The “kit” is assembled at fulfillment time.
Use this for:
Shopify FBM orders, custom bundles, gift sets assembled in your warehouse.
How it works:
Customer orders a gift set → Carpe Inventory IQ issues each component from your warehouse → Components are picked, packed, and shipped together.
Static Assemblies
Build-to-Stock
Components are pre-assembled into finished goods before any order comes in. The finished product sits on the shelf as its own SKU.
Use this for:
FBA shipments (Amazon needs finished units), wholesale orders, any product manufactured in batches.
How it works:
You build a batch of 200 → Carpe Inventory IQ issues components and receives 200 finished SKUs → Those finished units are available to sell across all channels.
Most brands use both. Gift sets for Shopify are dynamic kits. FBA inventory is pre-assembled. Carpe Inventory IQ handles both in the same system.
BOMs within BOMs
Some products have sub-assemblies — a component that is itself made from other components.
A skincare gift set might contain three finished products, each of which has its own BOM. When you build the gift set, the system traces all the way down to raw materials.
Gift Set
Holiday Collection
Lip Gloss - Sunset Rose
1 unitMoisturizer - Daily SPF
1 unitLip Liner - Rose
1 unit“Potential to build” traces through every level. If you’re short on SPF additive, the system knows you can’t build the moisturizer, which means you can’t build the gift set.
Don’t rebuild your BOMs by hand.
If you’re switching from Finale, Cin7, or a spreadsheet — export your BOMs and import them directly into Carpe Inventory IQ via CSV. One file, all your recipes.
Same for SKU aliases, supplier data, and component lists. Bulk workflows for bulk catalogs.
Built for brands who make things.
Track every component. Know what you can build. Stop guessing.
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