Highlight colours

(Bill of Materials, Estimating, MPS, MRP, Works Orders)

You can assign colours to display certain items in Manufacturing windows. For example, using Highlight Colours, you can assign colours to errors, shortages, sub-assemblies, phantom A BOM that is not used as a stock component or in raising works orders. A phantom BOM is created and structured to contain groups of components, like a standard BOM. It is used in printed reports on stock structures. It can be used to collapse the sub-assemblies to reduce work in progress (WIP) and lead-time. It operates as a standard sub-assembly. However, the product code for the finished item does not appear on a higher level works order. Within Manufacturing, the components and operations of phantoms (and nested phantoms) are added to the top-level works order. These components and operations are given a sequence number of zero. In some manufacturing systems, phantom BOMs are employed instead of effectivity dates, to use up old stock before introducing replacement parts. If so, the old item is created as a phantom with the new item, the child of the old. Old stock is used up before new stock is ordered. When a phantom has zero stock, it is deleted and the new item is made part of the original BOM. Phantom BOMs are also known as non-returnable assemblies and blow-throughs.s, and items at risk.

Note: If you are using the Bill of Materials module only, you can assign colours using the User Colour Settings option. Any changes you make using Highlight Colours are applied automatically in User Colour Settings.

To highlight colours

Open: Manufacturing System Manager > System Settings > Highlight Colours.

1. Select the colours that you want to use for the items.
2. To revert to the colours set up as defaults on installation, click Revert to defaults.
3. To save the colours, click OK.