Controlling multiple pivot tables with same slicers when data tables are many-to-many

rocket_dog

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I've been a long-time Excel user (25 years) and this one has me stumped. I think I've been staring at it too long or something, but I'll be darned if I can find a way to make it work. I've created a simplified simulation of my data, which consists of the following tables and columns:
  1. Revenue table
    1. Part #
    2. Category
    3. Customer
    4. Revenue
    5. Month
  2. Labor table
    1. Part #
    2. Labor
    3. Month
  3. Materials table
    1. Part #
    2. Materials
    3. Month
  4. Month table
    1. Month
  5. Parts table
    1. Part #
I've loaded everything into Power Pivot, and created relationships between the Month table and the other tables with a "Month" column, and I also created relationships between the Parts table and the other tables with a Part # column. So far so good.

Here's the problem: I need to be able to filter for "Category" and "Customer", at which point I need to see the Labor table and Materials get filtered by any Part # that matches the Category(ies) and/or Customer(s) that are being filtered by. Because all the tables contain multiple months, they also contain multiple Part #s, so I can't join the tables that way. Also, everything else is a many-to-many relationship: a Part # can appear in multiple Categories and have multiple Customers, a Category can have multiple Part #s and multiple Customers, and a Customer can have multiple Part #s and multiple Categories.

I realize that the Labor and Materials tables have no Category or Customer detail, so I would not expect to see those filtered to show only the Labor or Materials associated with a particular Category or Customer. However, what I would like to see is the Labor and Materials tables filtered to display only the Part #s that are associated with the Category and/or Customer that's being filtered (sliced).

For example, in my attached screen shot "pivots_filters_Showroom_Acme", you can see that the "Revenue" pivot table displays A3 but not B5 or C7, yet B5 and C7 are still appearing in the Labor and Materials pivot tables. What I want is for the Labor and Materials pivot tables to only reflect the Part #s that are available in the Revenue pivot table after the slicers have been selected.

Is there any way to use slicers to filter all three tables in this way?
 

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