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Phantom Manufacturing Parts
Phantom manufacturing parts are parts or assemblies in your mBOM which cannot be allocated to process plan operations. From a business perspective, these parts and assemblies are typically items that are non-stockable, but which can be published to ERP or MRP systems.
A phantom manufacturing part can have child parts which are not defined as phantom manufacturing parts. Non-phantom manufacturing parts that appear underneath the phantom manufacturing part are allocated to the process plan that is related to the first parent non-phantom manufacturing assembly.
In this scenario:
Phantom Manufacturing Part A cannot be allocated to any process plan operations.
Manufacturing Parts 002 and 003 can be allocated to the operations of the process plan related to Manufacturing Assy1.