What we are building

Two plants, a warehouse, an item master, subinventories underneath them, and stock actually moving. That is where this module goes. The chain: location, item master organization, inventory organization, parameters, manufacturing enablement, subinventories, locators, relationships — and then, at the end, your first transaction. Nine links, each depending on the one before it, and the failure shows up at the far end, at transaction time, looking like something else. This is the longest module of the phase, and here is why. This is where the shape of the whole implementation gets set. Costing granularity, security scope, planning behaviour, and every report anybody will ever run — all of them inherit their shape from decisions made in the next six lessons. Have your environment open, the design template, and something to write on. The notepad is not decoration: the first seven lessons are design, and you should be sketching structures rather than…

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