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Can somebody give me an application or example when a Phantom line type would be used?
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Hi Blake,
It's a way to make your BOMs more manageable, by using sub-boms, without having to actually manufacture the sub-bom item.
For example.. you make ball point pens. They are made from a plastic thing with ink and a ball point, a spring, a clicker and two pieces for the case. You make them with different coloured cases; red, blue and green. The only difference between pens of different colours is the two pieces for the case. A BOM looks like this:
On the BOM of the blue and green pens, the case pieces are blue or green.
Or, you could use a Phantom BOM Line item called 'red case', which itself has two components:
Then your BOM looks like this:
If you did that, the 'Phantom' flag tells AX that you won't really make a 'red case' out of two pieces; it drops the 'red case' from the picking list journal, and puts in the two case pieces.
"But why would you use a Phantom?", I hear you ask.
Imagine you created a fourth colour pen. You could copy the BOM, switch only one item, and have a new BOM that you could use. Or maybe the red plastic you were using becomes too expensive. You find another red, create a Phantom for that, and switch over the one BOM Line item.
Actually, my example is too simple. Imagine the Phantom contained 50 BOM Lines. And you want to change it. If you're not using Phantoms, you'd have to find 50 BOM Lines and remove them.
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