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:

  • Revisions

    When engineering an item, a new item code is not always introduced. Instead, an engineer can use the Engineering Item Revision (tiedm1100m000) session to define a new revision for the item.

  • Bill of Material

    An engineer is responsible for the entire product structure of an item. The structure is defined in the Bill of Material (tibom1110m000) session.

  • Routings

    An engineer is responsible for the way how products are manufactured, as defined in the Routing Operations (tirou1102m000) session.

  • Business Partners

    Before updating items, an engineer must know the impact for business partners involved. The business partners that supply items are listed in the Items - Purchase Business Partner (tdipu0110m000) session.

  • Alternatives

    If an item is out of stock, alternative items could be used. In the Alternative Items (tcibd0505m000) session, an engineer can define or view which items are alternatives.

  • Where-Used Component

    An engineer is responsible for continuous improvement of products. This may lead to engineering changes in items that are used in various BOMs. In the Where-Used BOM Component (tibom1512m000) session, an engineer can find which BOMs are affected.

  • Production Orders

    Engineering changes should affect the production process as little as possible. An engineer can use the Production Orders (tisfc0501m000) session to view whether disturbances occur, and which production orders are affected. Only production orders that are not yet reported as complete are displayed.

  • Purchase Orders

    Engineering changes should affect the purchase process as little as possible. An engineer can use 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. The engineer can use the Purchase Schedules (tdpur3110m000) session for an overview, and to 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.

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.

Field Information

Inventory Unit

inventory unit

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

item group

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.

Unit Effective

If this check box is selected, the item is unit effective.

Inventory on Hand

inventory on hand

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 Product

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

item

Item Type

item type

Allowed values

Product
Purchased
Manufactured
Generic
Cost
Service
Subcontracted service
List
Tool
Equipment
Engineering module
Product Variant

The unique identification of a product variant.

Item Group

item group

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.

Phantom

If this check box is selected, the item is a phantom.

You can overrule the Phantom check box in the Bill of Material (tibom1110m000) session.

Manufacturer

The items' default manufacturer.

Weight

weight

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:

  • Set up and control compliancy rules
  • Verify whether purchased, engineered, manufactured, and serviced material is compliant
  • Verify whether their work processes are compliant

This field indicates the item's environmental compliancy.

The value of this field can be set by an external software application.

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: 
  • You can select this check box only if the Lot Controlled check box is selected. If you store effectivity units in inventory, unit information is linked to the item's lot number: the inventory is stored at lot level, and the unit is recorded in the lot. Note that if an item is not lot controlled, the item is stored with unit 0 (zero) in inventory, even if a demand exists for a specific effectivity unit.
  • If this check box is cleared, the Effectivity Units are Interchangeable check box is always selected and disabled. In this way, the demand is matched with available inventory, irrespective of the effectivity unit.

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

product type

Product Class

product class

Product Line

product line

Selection Code

selection code

Technical Coordinator

technical coordinator

Commodity Code

The harmonized system code assigned to the selected item.

Item Signal

signal

Cost Component

The cost component assigned to the item.

Note:  List items do not have cost components.

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

Yes

If a new revision is created during engineering, and a relationship already exists between the engineering item and an item, the existing (effective) revision number is removed and replaced by the new revision number.

Freeze

If a new revision is created during engineering, and a relationship already exists between the engineering item and an item, the existing (effective) revision number stays the same, and is not changed. In other words, the revision number of the new revision will not replace the existing revision number.

Break

If a new revision is created during engineering, and a relationship already exists between the engineering item and an item, the existing (effective) revision number is removed. The removed revision number is not replaced by the new revision number, which means that no revision number is displayed anymore.

Type of Replacement

The item's replacement status.

Allowed values

Not Applicable

The item does not replace any other item and is not replaced itself.

Replaced

The item is replaced by another item. You can find the replacing item in the Alternative Items (tcibd0505m000) session.

Substitute

The item has replaced another item. You can find the replaced item in the Alternative Items (tcibd0505m000) session.

Replaced Substitute

The item has replaced another item, and is replaced by another item itself. You can find the replacing and replaced item in the Alternative Items (tcibd0505m000) session.

Inherit Project Peg

If this check box is selected, the dependent components will inherit the project peg of the main item.

Search Key I

search key

Search Key II

search key

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:

  • Operation times
  • Work centers
  • Machines
  • Other routing-related data

Use Phantom Inventory
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

Operated Item

Order

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
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: 
  • You can link a production-schedule code to an item in the Item - Production (tiipd0101m000) session (through the Schedule Code field).
  • You can link a production-schedule code to a planning area in the Scheduling Areas (tirpt0103m000) session.
  • A production order can appear in both schedules, but with different periods, for example, every four weeks by item and weekly by scheduling area.
Rate Factor for Planning
Backflush if 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 Item - 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 Item - 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) session the Serials in Inventory check box is cleared, and the Register Serial 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 Item - Warehousing (whwmd4500m000) session.

Backflush 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

order lead time

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 Items - 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:

  • The Check Inventory (tiasc2240m000) session in the Assembly Control module.
  • The Print Material Shortages by Production Order (tisfc0419m000) session.

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.