In this video I’m walking you through Altium Develop’s BOM Manager, and honestly—it’s changing the game for small to medium hardware teams that are tired of living in spreadsheet chaos. I start by importing a big Excel BOM and show how the import flow asks the right questions up front (like whether you’ve got alternates), which is a huge clue that there’s some smart analysis happening behind the scenes. The goal is simple: stop passing around manual Excel files that nobody can reliably interact with, versions get mixed up, and parts get missed in assembly. Once the BOM is in, you get a real-time, team-interactive dashboard that surfaces the stuff that actually matters: compliance issues, lifecycle problems, missing supplier data, and known/unknown alternates. It pulls in datasheets, shows component images, and even flags whether a part is recommended. Then I show the workflow side—comments and tasks right on BOM rows, assigning action items to teammates, and tracking status like to-do/in progress/resolved. If you’re trying to scale an industry-ready PCB workflow, this is the kind of tooling that saves time, reduces mistakes, and keeps your supply chain and design decisions visible to the whole team.