Production Item 360 (timfc1500m000)Use this session to view, maintain, and create item-related data. In a company, engineers are responsible for the development of new products. They also maintain and improve the products during their life cycles. Therefore, engineers must have item-related data at their disposal, for example, to determine the item structure, how the item is manufactured, and which purchase and production processes are involved. Their goal is to carry out continuous development without disturbing the production process and other logistical processes. How to use the Production Item 360 (timfc1500m000) session If you select an item in the item list in the Production Item 360 (timfc1500m000) session, information about the item is displayed. The check marks under Detailed Information indicate which data is available for the item. If you click a link, a session is started in which you can view, maintain, or create the item data. You can click the following links:
If, under Charts, the check box is selected, the engineer can click Planned Inventory Transactions to start the Planned Inventory Transactions - Chart (whinp1700m000) session. Inventory information is important to an engineer, for example, to determine whether the inventory of a specific item is already used up, and to assess whether an item can be phased out.
Details Inventory Unit The unit of measure in which the inventory of an item is recorded, such as piece, kilogram, box of 12, or meter. The inventory unit is also used as the base unit in measure conversions, especially for conversions that concern the order unit and the price unit on a purchase order or a sales order. These conversions always use the inventory unit as the base unit. An inventory unit therefore applies to all item types, also to item types that cannot be kept in stock. Serialized If this check box is selected, the item is a serialized item. Revision Controlled If this check box is selected, the item has revisions. Item Group A group of items with similar characteristics. Each item belongs to a particular item group. The item group is used in combination with the item type to set up item defaults. Lot Controlled If this check box is selected, the item must be assigned to a lot. Item Signal The code of item signal. During the process of the copying e-item to a standard item, the item signal code can be copied only when the Copy Item Signal Code check box is selected in the Engineering Data Management Parameters (tiedm0100m000) session. Detailed Information Unit Effective If this check box is selected, the item is unit effective. Inventory on Hand The physical quantity of goods in one or more warehouses (including the inventory on hold). Revisions If this check box is selected, the selected item has one or more revisions. Production Orders If this check box is selected, production orders are present for the selected item. Purchase Orders If this check box is selected, purchase orders are present for the selected item. Alternatives If this check box is selected, alternatives for the selected item are defined. Bill of Material If this check box is selected, a bill of material (BOM) is defined for the selected item. Subcontracted Operations by End Item If this check box is selected, one or more of the operations needed for the manufacture of the end item are subcontracted. Purchase Schedules If this check box is selected, purchase schedules are defined for the selected item. Routings If this check box is selected, one or more routings are defined for the selected item. Where-used BOM Components If this check box is selected, the GBF displays the where used in BOM for the item. Business Partners If this check box is selected, items needed for manufacture are supplied by business partners. . Item The raw materials, subassemblies, finished products, and tools that can be purchased, stored, manufactured, and sold. An item can also represent a set of items handled as one kit, or which exist in multiple product variants. You can also define nonphysical items, which are not retained in inventory but can be used to post costs or to invoice services to customers. The examples of nonphysical items:
Item Type A classification of items used to identify if the item is, for example, a generic item, a service item, or an equipment item. Depending on the item's type, certain functions will only apply to that item. Allowed values Actual Supply Source The actual supply method that is used to replenish the inventory on hand for the current date. Note The actual supply source can differ from the item's default supply source if you temporarily changed it in the Date-Effective Supply Source (tcibd0510m000) session. To start this session, click the Date-Effective Supply Source button. Allowed values Product variant The unique identification of a product variant. Item Group A group of items with similar characteristics. Each item belongs to a particular item group. The item group is used in combination with the item type to set up item defaults. EAN Code The default bar code used to register the items. Derived-from Item The item from which the item, in the Item field, is derived. Note If a standard item is copied to a customized item using the Copy Standard Product Structure to Customized Structure (tipcs2230m000) session, LN displays the standard item code in the customized item's Derived from Item field. Project (PCS) The project the item is linked to. . Manufacturer The items' default manufacturer. Weight The weight of the goods delivered or received. The weight is calculated on the basis of the transaction quantity and the item's weight unit. Weight Unit Unit of measurement for weight, such as a kilogram. Environmental Compliance Worldwide, various regulations exist to limit the use of hazardous chemical substances in electronic equipment preventing environmental pollution. Companies, in most cases producers of electronic equipment, are legally required to:
This field indicates the item's environmental compliancy. The value of this field can be set by an external software application. Subcontracted If this check box is selected, the item is subcontracted. Unit Effective Supply Order planning in Enterprise Planning results in calculating the demand for the components of parent items. If an effectivity unit is assigned to the parent item, you can choose to specify the components of the parent item by the parent item's effectivity unit. If this check box is selected, LN communicates the parent item's effectivity unit to the component items. This means that if the same component item is used in several unit effective parent items, several orders are generated for the component item, each order with its own effectivity unit. If this check box is cleared, LN does not communicate the parent item's effectivity unit to the component items. This is useful if the effectivity unit of the parent item is not relevant for the lower part of the item structure. Although components are demanded for 100 different effectivity units, you only get one supply order of 100 pieces for the standard configuration instead of 100 orders. Note
Example Item C is a purchased item that is used in two unit effective end items, A and B. One end item, item A, has effectivity unit 15, and the other end item, item B, has effectivity unit 16. If the Unit Effective Supply check box is selected for item C, and a demand for item C is required when producing items A and B, two purchase orders for item C are created: one purchase order with effectivity unit 15, and another purchase order with effectivity unit 16. If the Unit Effective Supply check box is cleared for item C, only one purchase order is created to order two items C. The effectivity unit is 0 (zero). Effectivity Units are Interchangeable If this check box is selected, the unit-effective item is interchangeable. This check box is always selected and disabled if the Unit Effective Supply check box is cleared. In this way, the demand is matched with available inventory, irrespective of the effectivity unit. Last Modification Date The last date the item data was modified. Material The material of which the item is composed. This field is only used for information. Standard The industrial standard used to produce or purchase the item. For example, NEN3140 or ISO9000. This field is only used for information. Size The item default size. This field is only used for information. Product Type User-definable item grouping data that is used as a sorting and selecting criterion. The product type is intended for classifying items with similar characteristics for production purposes. Product Class User-definable item grouping data that is used to distinguish between different groups of items in a product line. The product class is mainly used as a selection criterion for reporting. Product Line A group of products made by the same producer, that are similar but differ in details such as, size, shape, color, and so on. User-definable item grouping data, mainly used as an item selection criterion for reporting. Selection Code User-definable item grouping data. Use selection codes to select items by color, diameter, product expiry date, and so on. Note Selection codes are used for information purposes only. Technical Coordinator The employee who is responsible for maintaining the technical item specifications and the requirements for the manufacturer of the item. This employee is also responsible for maintaining the information concerning hazardous material and the risk classification in Warehousing. Commodity Code The harmonized system code assigned to the selected item. Item Signal A warning message displayed if you enter or select an item to which a signal is linked. Item signals can also be used to block the issue and/or requisition of items. Business-partner signal A warning message displayed if you select a business partner to whom a signal is linked. Cost Component Actual Revision The latest revision of the item. LN displays the revision number if a relationship is established between the engineering item and the item in the Engineering Item - Item Relationship (tiedm1101m000) session, and the engineering item revision is Approved by Production. Update Method The selected value indicates how LN handles the relationship between revisions of the engineering item and standard items or customized items. Allowed values Type of Replacement Search Key I An alternative form of a description used for convenience during searching. Typically, it is an abbreviation, an acronym, or a mnemonic alternative to a full description. Search Key II An alternative form of a description used for convenience during searching. Typically, it is an abbreviation, an acronym, or a mnemonic alternative to a full description. Quantity-dependent Routing If this check box is selected, LN, by default, selects a particular routing. The selection is based on the order quantity. Therefore, the order quantity of an item affects the:
Use Phantom Inventory If this check box is selected, LN checks if any phantom inventory is available. If the phantom item is available in inventory, and the quantity is sufficient, this inventory is used as a component in the production order. If phantom inventory is not available, or the quantity is insufficient, the inventory is not used. LN considers the component a normal phantom item, so the phantom is exploded for the total quantity in the BOM. Turn Operation 0 into First of If material of a phantom item is not linked to a specific operation, this field is used to determine the time when the material must be issued. Allowed values Note This field is only relevant if the operations of the production order originate partly from the routing of the phantom items. For a material's operated item, see the Operated Item field in the Estimated Materials (ticst0101m000) session. Performance aspects For performance reasons, it is recommended to set this field to Order. For more information, refer to Material for multiple operations. Repetitive Item The production schedule of the job shop related repetitive items. The item is a repetitive item if:
Anonymous items and to-order items can be repetitive. However, only to-order items that are standard-to-order (STO) can be used in RPT schedules. You cannot use generic item or engineering items in an RPT schedule. Schedule Code A production-schedule code identifies time ranges defined in a production schedule. If you link the schedule code to a scheduling area or to an item, you also link the period of that schedule code to that scheduling area or item. Note
Rate Factor for Planning If this check box is selected, rate factors are used for repetitive items during planning. Note The Job Shop Production Schedules check box in the Repetitive Manufacturing Parameters (tirpt0100m000) session must be selected for this parameter to apply. BackflushIf Material If this check box is selected, the item is backflushed when used as a component in the product structure of another item. Serialized items Serialized items can only be backflushed if in the Items - Warehousing (whwmd4500m000) details session the Serials in Inventory check box is cleared, and the Register Serial Issue During As Built field is Yes. If the serialized item is lot-controlled, the lot from which the items are backflushed is based on the outbound method ( Last In First Out (LIFO), First In First Out (FIFO)) as is defined in the Items - Warehousing (whwmd4500m000) details session. Backflushing If this check box is selected, the materials for the production order are issued through backflushing. Serialized items can only be backflushed if in the Item - Warehousing (whwmd4600m000) details session the Serials in Inventory check box is cleared, and the Register Lot Issue During As Built field is Yes. In all other cases, serialized items cannot be backflushed. If the serialized item is lot-controlled, the lot from which the items are backflushed is based on the outbound method ( Last In First Out (LIFO), First In First Out (FIFO)) as is defined in the Items - Warehousing (whwmd4500m000) details session. Backfl.Hours If this check box is selected, you can backflush the hours spent to manufacture the item to the related employee. BOM Quantity The number of items on which the item's bill of material is based. The BOM quantity enables you to specify very small item quantities as bill of material components. Routing Quantity The quantity of the manufactured item on which the routing is based. This unit enables you to include very short operation times in the routing of an item. Scrap Percentage Recording a scrap factor prevents shortages in production. The scrap factor is expressed as a percentage loss. A scrap factor of 5% means that LN will allocate 5% more of a component for a production order (gross material requirement). Scrap is an extra loss in addition to the loss caused by the yield being less than 100%. If you generate the BOM from an engineering BOM, the scrap factor and scrap quantity values will also be copied. However, these values will only be copied if the sequence number is the only thing changed, for example, wheel 10/1 to wheel 10/2. If there is a new item on the BOM line, for example, wheel to spare wheel, the scrap data will not be copied. In this case, the scrap quantity and scrap factor will be zero (0). Scrap Quantity The quantity used to estimate the fixed loss of quantity in the manufacturing process. A fixed quantity scrap is calculated using this formula: Gross requirement = net quantity + scrap quantity Direct Initiate Inventory Issue If this check box is selected,, the warehouse order line for the material is automatically unblocked during production order release. Consequently, you are not required to run the Initiate Inventory Issue (tisfc0207m000) session to unblock the material. If this check box is cleared,, and if the material is not backflushed, you must use the Initiate Inventory Issue (tisfc0207m000) session to unblock the material's warehouse order line. Direct Process Warehouse Order line If this check box is selected, the warehouse outbound procedure is carried out automatically after that materials in the warehouse are unblocked. If this check box is cleared, and you unblock warehouse order lines using the Initiate Inventory Issue (tisfc0207m000) session, the quantity to issue is added to the To Issue by Warehousing field in the Material to Issue for Production Orders (ticst0101m100) details session. You must carry out the rest of the warehousing procedure manually. If you use the Initiate Inventory Issue (tisfc0207m000) session, warehouse order lines for the materials to issue are unblocked. You can also select the Direct Initiate Inventory Issue check box for the materials. In that case, warehouse order lines are automatically unblocked during production order release. Standard To Order If this check box is selected, the item is created based on the Standard-to-Order generation method, as specified in the Generation Method field of the Generate (Project PCS) Structure for Sales Orders (tdsls4244m000) session. The bill of material and the routing are derived from the original item. Net Change JSC If this check box is selected, a partial explosion and netting is defined during the regenerative replanning process. LN only replans the parts of scheduled JSC orders affected by the change in the bill of material and routing. Order Lead Time The production time of an item expressed in hours or days, based on the lead time elements as defined in the routing operations. The order lead time is determined when you click Update Order Lead Time in this session. Select Hours or Days as the time unit in which you want to express the order lead time. Order Lead Time Unit The effectivity unit used to calculate the order lead time. Warehouse is Mandatory on BOM Line If this check box is selected, for the item used as a component in the bill of material, you must specify the warehouse for this component item on the BOM line in the Bill of Material (tibom1110m000) details session. Note If you do not specify a warehouse on the BOM line, the warehouse specified in the Item - Ordering (tcibd2100m000) session is used for the production order material line. Critical for Inventory If this check box is selected, you can check the availability of the item if used as material for the production order. These checks are performed:
Subcontracting with Material Flow If this check box is selected, only subcontracting with material flow is used to produce the item. Note This check box is displayed only if the Subcontracting with Material Flow check box is selected in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session. If the default supply source of the item is Assembly, this check box is unavailable. Receipt Inspection If this check box is selected, and the item produced is the end item, an inspection must be performed when the item is received in the warehouse. Outbound Inspection If this check box is selected, material is inspected when issued from a warehouse.
Where-Used Component When you continuously improve products, engineering changes can occur in items that are used in various BOMs. Click to start the Where-Used BOM Component (tibom1512m000) session, in which you can find the BOMs that are affected. Purchase Orders Engineering changes should affect the purchase process as little as possible. Click to start the Purchase Order Lines Monitor (tdpur4501m500) session to view purchase orders if disturbances are unavoidable. Employees who are responsible for the purchases can be informed. Only the purchase order lines for parts that have not been received are displayed. However, in the Purchase Order Lines Monitor (tdpur4501m500) session, you can click Show All Lines from the appropriate menu to view all purchase order lines. Purchase Schedules Engineering changes can affect purchase schedules. Click to start the Purchase Schedules (tdpur3110m000) session for an overview, after which you can inform the responsible people. Only the open purchase schedules are displayed. However, in the Purchase Schedules (tdpur3110m000) session, you can click All Schedules from the appropriate menu to view all purchase schedules. Planned Inventory Transactions Click to start the Planned Inventory Transactions - Chart (whinp1700m000) session. Inventory information is important, for example, to determine whether the inventory of a specific item is already used up, and to assess whether an item can be phased out.
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