MPP with multiple Itemtypes

Hi Rick,

you can customize a lot in MPP, but you will soon realize that some customization require massive changes. Does your second ItemType contain a multilevel-bom or is it a more simple ItemType? Do you want to be able something similar like building a MBOM from a EBOM with all the validation checks?

The EBOM/MBOM functionality is optimzied for Part. It analyzes the Part structure to get an EBOM. One step that happens here is that MPP breaks done multilevel BOMs to a plain singlelevel structure. The corresponding Methods is quite huge. So this use case would definitely not become easy.

Hi Rick,

you can customize a lot in MPP, but you will soon realize that some customization require massive changes. Does your second ItemType contain a multilevel-bom or is it a more simple ItemType? Do you want to be able something similar like building a MBOM from a EBOM with all the validation checks?

The EBOM/MBOM functionality is optimzied for Part. It analyzes the Part structure to get an EBOM. One step that happens here is that MPP breaks done multilevel BOMs to a plain singlelevel structure. The corresponding Methods is quite huge. So this use case would definitely not become easy.

Hi Angela,

The idea was to have a custom itemtype with a similar structure to part and to be able to build process plans with either itemtype as the "produced part". But since the built-in way of using a custom itemtype in the MPP seems to replace part instead of adding the other itemtype as an option I suspected that having two options would require a lot of changes to the internal workings of the MPP. I looked at poly items since they can turn into multiple other itemtypes, but it didn't seem like a solution since the actual itemtypes would still have their own realationshiptypes that need to work in the MPP. I might try to solve it with part classifications instead, but it's a bit messy.