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Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 4 · Inventory Organizations and Plants

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Lesson 45 of 188 · 22 min

The whole Halden Works structure built from empty, with the reasoning narrated at every fork. The sequence: the item master decision settled first and out loud; the organization count, with the warehouse question worked both ways before choosing; the item master organization created, then Bergen, Skien and the warehouse; parameters, with lot control enabled only on Bergen finished goods; manufacturing enabled on Bergen and Skien only; subinventories, including the non-nettable quarantine and the customer-owned tooling treatment; locators at Bergen and the Skien decision justified; inter-organization relationships, with the Skien-to-Bergen transfer type argued against the four-hour journey; then security contexts and the three test transactions. Name the defensible alternatives explicitly. The warehouse can reasonably be its own organization or a set of subinventories within Bergen — it depends on how you read "reported with Bergen but physically elsewhere", and both readings are fair. The Skien-to-Bergen transfer can defensibly be in-transit or

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In this module: Module 4 · Inventory Organizations and Plants

  1. 1What we are building
  2. 2The decision you cannot undo
  3. 3The organization object model
  4. 4The item master organizationFree preview
  5. 5Organization granularity — how many?
  6. 6Running the facilities design workshop
  7. 7Four worked plant models
  8. 8Creating the item master organization
  9. 9Creating an inventory organization
  10. 10Organization parameters
  11. 11Enabling manufacturing on a plant
  12. 12Subinventory design
  13. 13Locators
  14. 14Inter-organization relationships
  15. 15Proving the structure works
  16. 16What breaks
  17. 17Lab briefing: the Halden Works structure
  18. 18Lab solution walkthrough