What are ‘Phantom’ Assemblies?

What are ‘Phantom’ Assemblies?

Phantom Assemblies are Bills of Material that are not normally manufactured in their own right but are used to simplify creation and maintenance of other (parent) Bills of Material.  For example, if you have (say) 100 end products who’s BOM includes the same 20 components then it is simpler to create a single Phantom Assembly that contains these common components.  In each of the Parent BOMs you would add the Phantom Assembly rather than the 20 components.  When generating an Assembly Order or running MRP the program will ‘blow through’ the Phantom Assembly and provision the components.

 

Ostendo not only allows the use of Phantoms in MRP and Assembly Order creation, but also allows you to create an Assembly Order for the Phantom itself.  This feature is useful for instances where you do not assemble the Phantom during normal manufacture but do use the Phantom as a sellable Spare Part

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