My company is on BAAN B40C.72 and we're using backflush techniques. We have phantoms in our BOMs, but we'd like to use them more productively.

What we want to do is be able to rout a phantom component to a specific workcenter. I'm not in Planning, but I have a materials background.

Is there a way for phantoms in BOMs to be routed to a specific workcenter/sequence? My planning department tells me the phantom inherits the sequence of the manufactured item above it.

Is there a way to specify the operation a phantom BOM is supposed to go to without the parent assembly overriding it? Other systems I've worked with permit a phantom ( a manufactured part) to have its own sequence in a routing.

pl explain indetail with example.

Baan IV ignored the routing of phantom. It also doesn't include in the costing neither in planning engine. In Baan IV you can add the phatom routing to its parent as well as to phatom. So, in this way it will take into account properly.

But please note that if there is an economic stock for phatom, then system will not blow throug the phantom.

Arvind Patil

As Arvind Patil replied, for phantom item there is no routing because it is mfg & consumed in same workcenter/shopso it is not having stock , If you want to rout it there is no problem but you have to punched it separate production order.

If you not cleared pl explain with Example .

M B Kulkarni