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Exercise No. 35: Motherboard Development Process

Partial Solution 4

d) Thereafter, the materials management department simultaneously generates a preliminary BOM and determines the component’s prices, using the preliminary schematic and the component’s information. After that, the same department compares the prices. There are two possible scenarios. The chosen components are either offered at best prices or there are cheaper components on the market. If the first case applies – please follow f). For the second case that there are cheaper components on the market, the hardware design department checks the component’s quality. If the quality of the components is worse than this of the components chosen before, please follow f).