Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 7 · Items and the Item Model
What breaks
Lesson 75 of 188 · 3 min
"I cannot transact this item." Check in this order. One. Is the item assigned to this organization? Two. Is it stockable and transactable? Three. Is the item status permitting this action? Four. Is the unit of measure valid for the transaction? Five. Is lot or serial control satisfied? Six. Is it costing-enabled, if the transaction requires valuation? Then eight cases. One. "The item does not exist in this plant." Not assigned — the most common ticket in the first month, by a distance. Two. "Inventory exists physically but has no value." Costing attributes — the root of a large share of reconciliation problems, and the seam to slow down on. Three. "Seventy item classes and they are all identical." The category tree modelled as classes; painful to consolidate later, because consolidating means moving items between classes. Four. "We need different lead times per plant and we cannot set them." The…
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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