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Assembly Items with Negative Qty Members
Hi,
We have a need (to keep management of sub-assemblies easy) to have sub-assembly items with negative amounts of component items.
Simple example would be having a sub-assembly for a trailer with two wheels, and axle and indicators etc.
That sub-assembly is part of a bigger assembly that is for the final manufactured (assembled) item.
A customer wants to order a normal finished item except with different wheels on it (maybe 6-stud or something).
Rather than develop a whole new Bill of Material from the ground up, we want to copy the original BoM to a new build, but then have a Qty of the normal wheel of -2 in the top level assembly of the normal wheels (to remove them and place them back into stock), and +2 of the special wheels. Thus saving a mountain of time "re-inventing the wheel".