Skipping phantom levels

When you copy bill of material (BOM) components to a sales order, sales quotation, or purchase order, you can specify how phantoms must be copied.

The following parameters determine the default number of bill of material (BOM) levels that are summarized when you use phantoms:

  • Maximum Number of Phantom Levels to be Skipped in the Sales Parameters (tdsls0100s000) session
  • Maximum Number of Phantom Levels to be Skipped in the Purchase Parameters (tdpur0100m000) session

These parameters provide default values to the same fields in the following sessions:

  • Copy BOM Components to Sales Quotation (tdsls1812s000)
  • Copy BOM Components to Order (tdpur4812s000)
  • Copy Bill of Material to Sales Order (tdsls4812s000), provided the Component Handling field is Sales BOM in the Sales Order Types (tdsls0594m000) session.
Important!

If Component Handling is Component Lines for the order type, in the Copy Bill of Material to Sales Order (tdsls4812s000) session, the Maximum Number of Phantom Levels to be Skipped field shows one and is unavailable.

The Maximum Number of Phantom Levels to be Skipped value in these sessions determines how a bill of material (BOM) is copied to the lines of sales order, sales quotation, or purchase order.

Example- Phantom levels to be skipped = 1

In this example, 4 order lines and 2 component lines are generated. The first BOM level, which contains only phantoms, is skipped. An order line is generated for the phantom on the second level.

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Example- Phantom levels to be skipped = 2

In this example, 5 order lines are generated. The phantoms on the first and second BOM level are skipped.

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Note

This example is applicable only for sales order types with Component Handling set to Sales BOM in the Sales Order Types (tdsls0594m000) session.

To view components

You can view components in the following sessions:

Note

If Component Handling is set to Component Lines and, in the first example, the third level would also contain a phantom with components on the fourth level, the third level phantom and the fourth level components are written to the Sales Order Lines - Components (tdsls4601m000) session. Therefore, these phantoms are handled as single components.

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