What is item management?
Item management refers to the administration and setting up of items for use with the Infor Surgical Instrument Management application.
Item master
The Surgical Instrument Management item master contains items that exist in the Infor Lawson Procurement item master, and items that are created directly in the Surgical Instrument Management application.
Items can be added for use by the Surgical Instrument Management application either locally or by bulk loading them from Infor Lawson Procurement. Items added in the Surgical Instrument Management application locally can be associated to Infor Lawson Procurement if the user enters an item number that exists in the item master. By the same token, if an item is added to the Infor Lawson Procurement item master that exists in the Surgical Instrument Manager system database, the user can associate the local item to the master item. This allows Surgical Instrument Management items that already exist in multiple tray lists and assemblies to be automatically updated to reflect the changes to the item.
Item groups
An item group identifies a specific group of inventory items for a company. If multiple companies share the same inventory items, you need to set up the items only once, then assign the same item group to all companies. You can only assign one item group to each company; however, multiple companies can share an item group.
Items in Surgical Instrument Management are typically instruments. Item groups allow users to group items for use in trays. Typical groups are On Stringer, In Terry Towel, and Bottom of Pan.