Help with Preparing Data and Table Relationships for Bill of Materials

[emrei]

Hi everyone, I am working with 5 products lets call them Product A, B, C, D, and E. I have an excel bill of materials list which has  a material column with all part numbers are rows as well columns named A, B, C, D and E where it is marked as 1 if the part is used in that product and 0 if it is not. Somethig like the attached picture with 5000 part numbers.

What would be the best way have this data in PowerBI so I can track our expected building costs for each product based on the quotes we receive from suppliers. So we would get a quote from a supplier for Part A1, A3 and A4 and those will build out to be the total cost of Product A.

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

@emrei Unpivot your B, C, D, E and F columns and import that table. Then I would also import just the A column as a separate Part # table. Then create the relationship between the tables based on Part #.

[emrei]

By unpivot do you mean something like this

And I would use Part # to map this to the supplier prices I receive?

[Greg_Deckler]

@emrei So yes. But I feel like I am providing guidance with 10% of the required information.