Following are the Bills of Material attributes and their possible values. You set these attributes when defining or updating items
BOM Allowed
Allows you to define a bill of material for an item, or to assign the item as a component on a bill.
This attribute is optionally set by the Item Status code.

BOM Item Type

This attribute is controlled at the Master level only.

Select a type to control bill functionality. You must enter a value here if BOM Allowed is turned on.

Model The item’s bill of material lists option classes and options available when you place an order for the model item.
Option Class This item’s bill of material contains a list of related options. Option classes group like options together. Oracle Order Management does not allow ordering of classes outside a model.
Planning This item’s bill of material contains a list of items and planning percentages. A planning item can represent a product family or demand channel. Its bill of material facilitates master scheduling and/or material planning.The total component planning percentages on a planning bill can exceed 100%. Oracle Order Management does not allow ordering of Planning bills.
Product Family This item can be used as a product family for planning at an aggregate level.
Standard Any item that can have a bill or be a component on a bill, except planning, model, or option class items. Standard items include purchased items, subassemblies, or finished products.

Notes

Base Model
This attribute is controlled at the Master level only.
Displays the model from which an ATO configuration was created. In Oracle Order Management, you can place an order for an ATO model, choosing from the list of options. Oracle Bills of Material creates a new configuration item, bill, and routing that captures the chosen options. The configuration item lists the ordered model item as its base model.

Configurator Model Type
This attributes determines the behavior of configurable models in configurator.
Standard
Container

Engineering Item
Indicates that the item was created using Oracle Engineering. This attribute is not updatable.

Effectivity Control
This attribute is used by Oracle Bills of Material when calculating lead times from the Routings form.
Date A concurrent program uses the date as the parameter.
Model/Unit Number A concurrent program uses the Unit Number as the parameter.