Planned Phantom Usage

This form is used only with the APS planning mode.

This form opens only from within the Master Production Schedule, Material Planner Workbench, and Planning Detail forms. It opens when you firm a planned order for an item on one of these forms, and the Copy BOM process did not copy a phantom subassembly to the job or production schedule BOM. A message displays for each instance in which the item contains a phantom subassembly in its bill of material and APS applied available inventory of that phantom.

The messages are displayed in a format like this: "The Planner has suggested adding phantom item [item number] for [quantity] to Job that has [job number] and [suffix] and [operation number]."

For each message, you should do this:

• Decide whether to manually add the phantom as a material on the job or production schedule. Use the Job Materials, Production Schedule Item Materials, Production Schedule Release Materials, or Engineering Workbench forms to add the phantom to the BOM.
• If you add the phantom to the job or production schedule BOM, you must also reduce the demand quantities of the phantom's components on that BOM. Do this by adjusting the Qty/Per field on the BOM to account for the difference between the quantity of the phantom inventory the system used and the demand quantity. For example, if the demand quantity passed to the phantom's component was 20, and the system used 12 of the phantom from on-hand inventory, you should change the component's Qty/Per value to 0.4 (which reduces its quantity on the BOM to 8).

See About Phantom Items in MRP and APS for more information about how the system uses on-hand inventory of phantom items.