Type

Enter the material type of the item. The material type is part of the selection criteria on several of the inventory reports and also determines whether the APS system will plan this item when this item is a material on a bill of material. The APS system plans demand only for materials of type material and tool (however, it will plan demand for fixture and other items if those items are the end items on a demand, such as on a customer order).

The material type also determines where the system maintains the cost for this item on the Items form. When you enter an item as a material on the Current Standard Routing or on the Job Materials form, the material type defaults from this field.

Select one of these types to describe the item:

• Material: Either purchased or converted by the manufacturing process into components and/or finished products. It is also possible to use Material to identify an end item. These materials are normally allocated and consumed in the manufacturing process. Material type costs are used to calculate the material costs.
• Fixture: Devices which support materials or tools during the machining process. Fixtures are not issued to jobs. However, one lot quantity is issued to update costing, and can be thought of as consumed. Fixture type costs are used to calculate the fixture costs in the Shop Floor Control module. If you want a fixture to be included as a constraint during the Scheduling process, you must add it as a resource that is included in a resource group of type "Other" and reference that resource group on the operation.
• Tool: Used by a machine to perform an operation. It is possible that tools are consumed in the manufacturing process, but they are often reusable. Tool type costs are used to calculate the tool costs in the Shop Floor Control module.
• Other: Items that do not fall into any of the other categories. It is possible that these items are actually nothing more than descriptions of miscellaneous charges for a job. For example, Outside Services would fall into this category.

On the Substitute Bill of Material Components or Multi-Site Bill of Material Builder form, the item type is displayed.