Shop order multilevel mBOM with phantoms report

Hi,

We are building aerial ropeways  in an ETO, EPC, complex project environment with a high manufacturing depth. This requires multilevel product structures up to 15 levels. We make extensive use of phantom parts (MRP Code P).

Some assembly shop orders for a fabrication group may have up to 2000 components on one shop order as a result of multilevel blow-through of those phantom parts.

Therefore we have the requirement to have those phantom parts still present to have some means to keep a structured part mBOM in Shop orders.

We have customized this as follows:

• additional tab in shop order: Multilevel K-Part Structure
  • giving a view of standard material lines plus all components with MRP-Code P (or K-parts) visible (marked in green)
  • the phantom parts are used in the shop order reports to keep the structure visible
• structure ordering in column “Ordering” - in a multilevel chapter format
• supports even multilevel MRP-Code P blow through
• RMB function “Replace phantom” (to support changes on any level of phantom elements including all sub-levels.
• this supports all processes, where a shop order is created from a product structure.
• this does not support engineering parts  with provide code phantom

I think this would be helpful for others too !