Phantom items only define the Bill of materials and routing, have no inventory maintenance and can be neither purchased nor sold. An assembly can have any number of phantom items, finally used to combine the Bill of materials and routing according to the assembly principle.
Note: A phantom item is an item type in Bill of materials which only has a technical or structural function. Phantom items are not actual components or intermediate assemblies, so they are defined as non-warehouse items.
For example, a company produces different laptops as finished good, and all different laptop models use the same set of cables: monitor connector, power connector, HDMI cable. It is easier to group the set of cables as a phantom item in Beas, so you do not have to assign the cables to each Bill of materials separately. To do so, we have to create the Bill of materials with all required cables, and link the phantom item as a component of all laptop models. After creating a Work Order, Beas only includes the phantom item structure (Bill of Materials and Routing) and not the item as an assembly.
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