Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 7 · Items and the Item Model
Item numbering
Lesson 66 of 188 · 2 min
Three options — manual, automatic sequence, rule-based — and then a question that is not really about any of them. Most manufacturers have existing part numbers that people know by heart, appear on drawings, and are used by suppliers and customers. Changing them is a change management problem far bigger than a system problem. Adopt the legacy numbers unless there is a compelling reason not to. The efficiency of a clean sequence is not worth retraining a workforce and reprinting drawings. Intelligent versus non-intelligent numbering is genuinely contested, so both sides. Part numbers that encode meaning are loved by users and hated by data architects — because the meaning eventually becomes wrong. The family gets renamed. The part gets used somewhere else. The two characters at the front now say something untrue, on every drawing, forever. And users love them because they can read a part number and know what…
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In this module: Module 7 · Items and the Item Model
- 1What we are building
- 2Why the item model is permanent
- 3The item object model
- 4Master versus organization attributes
- 5Designing the class hierarchy
- 6Item numbering
- 7Building item classes
- 8Item templates
- 9Creating items manually
- 10The attributes that matter most
- 11Assigning items to organizations
- 12Item statuses and lifecycle phases
- 13Importing items in bulk
- 14Data quality before migrationFree preview
- 15What breaks
- 16Lab briefing: the Halden item model
- 17Lab solution walkthrough