Re: Alternate Item in Bill of Material????

We did this by making the alternate item a 'phantom'...with the other item
as a child in the bom or visa versa...anyway...
if phantom is on stock..it will be used...if not on stock...mrp/sfc will
'blow-thru'..(good phrase that one,almost as good as 'sunset'..another SSA
classic),and use the child item...only draw back is phantom is at item
master level...and from memory, i think it did some weird things on cost
roll-up...manufacturing where over the moon...accountants where a bit
cheesed off...advise you test first.
(nb..this was at 4.004....never tried it at ver 6%.)
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Hudson <roxrhud@colaik.com>
To: BPCS-L@midrange.com <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Date: 15 March 2000 20:02
Subject: Alternate Item in Bill of Material????


>
>
>Ver 6.0.2; Green Screen
>
>Might sound crazy, but is there anyway to have an alternate item for a
component
>in a bill of material.  I know we can change the component when the shop
order
>is created, but we would like to have it as part of the BOM so that MRP/MPS
will
>not instruct us to order the component when the alternate item is
available.
>
>TIA
>Ron Hudson
>Collins & Aikman
>roxrhud@colaik.com
>
>
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