Understanding Phantom Items

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Shop Floor Management includes lower-level components of phantom items when you attach a parts list. Phantom items are characterized by:

• They are not planned by material requirements planning (MRP).

• They can be any lower-level component in the bill of material for a parent item.

• They can be used to define a subassembly within a parent item when the subassembly is not stocked in inventory or planned by MRP but is consumed by the parent.

For process manufacturing, these items are intermediates, and can be any lower-level part or intermediate within the process for a co-product (parent item).