PCB inventory and stock control

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Hi experts,

I’m using Altium for my PCB artwork and have entered supplier and part numbers for each part on the schematics. That allows me to get a BOM out with everything I need to complete a board order.

I’m interested to know what other folks are doing to keep track of board configurations/revisions and stock on hand of components and completed boards. I figure there are some CRM type solutions for this thing but dont know what is used by pcb designers to manage their work?

thanks.

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I use InFlow Inventory manager. Nice and easy program. http://www.inflowinventory.com/

For Board artwork and BOM, I just use Eagle’s file system. I have it organized from board usage.

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I treat it like I do software source code. My PCB files go into a Subversion repository.