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.

These 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 Procurement Parameters (tdpur0100m000) session

The previous parameters provide default values to the same fields in these 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Viewing components

You can view components in these sessions:

Purchase order
Purchase Order Planned Materials (tdpur4532m000)
Sales quotation
Sales Quotation Line - BOM Components (tdsls1532s000)
Sales order
If Component Handling is Sales BOM, components can be viewed in the Sales Order Line - BOM Components (tdsls4532m000) session.
If Component Handling is Component Lines, components can be viewed in the Sales Order Lines - Components (tdsls4601m000) session.

Note: If Component Handling is 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.