We’re in the process of changing some part numbers, and I ran into something that surprised me.
Setting a Part as Inactive will fail (and give warnings) if the part is currently on an open PO or Order. But processes just fine if the part is a child of another currently active part’s BOM. I expected a warning saying the part was in use and had to be removed (or replaced) from the parent BOM(s).
I opened the Parent Part in Eng Workbench, and ran the Validate BOM, and it comes back as valid. What does the “Validate BOM” actually look for?
Am I missing something? Or is it okay to have inactive parts in the BOM? Do they then become “Buy To Job” type of parts if a Job was created?
Just trying to wrap my head around all the possible issues with making a part inactive.