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The purpose of this program is to maintain material structure detailed information.
- Customer
- Project
- Status
- The code indicates the status of the project/quotation.
- Phase
- Line number
- Item
- Variant
- Sequence number
- Component item
- The code that identifies the component item.
- Component variant
- The component variant of the item. An item can have several variants, where parts of the bill of material and/or bill of routing differ from the base structure. The base structure always has variant 000. The component variant is also used for creation of lower level material.
- Description
- The description for the item. You can only enter the description for fictitious items. Note: If the program is in add mode and the Direct pur to m-order field is set to YES in the MFG control file, then you can enter the description in this field. Otherwise, it is displayed as output field.
- Quantity
- The quantity in stock unit, in up to 3 decimals, of components included in the bill of material.
- Set-up quantity
- The fixed set-up quantity for materials. This set-up quantity can be deemed as an estimated reservation that you plan on consuming for the machine set-up before real production, and is independent of the order’s quantity. When manufacturing orders are entered, the components required quantity is calculated as follows: order quantity x component quantity + fixed set-up quantity.
Example:
Fixed set-up quantity = 10
Order quantity = 5
Component quantity = 1
Component required quantity = 15
- Unit
- The code from the Item file that indicates the stock unit of the component.
- Operation number
- The operation number for which the material is first used. If this information is used the item is reserved for production purposes; for the starting time of this operation instead of the starting time of the production order.
- Valid from
- The date indicates from when an item is to be included as a component in a bill of material for manufacturing orders. This is validated at creation time of the order.
- Valid to
- The date indicates until when an item is to be excluded as a component in a bill of material for manufacturing orders. This is validated at creation time of the order.
- Phantom item
- Indicates if the item should be handled as a phantom item in manufacturing orders. This means that material and operations on the phantom item will be moved from lower levels to level 1.
- Position number
- The position number for the component item can be used in the shop floor printout to print the manufacturing order bill of material in position number order.
- MRP break
- Indicates if the material explosion of this item should be stopped in the MRP-run. Note: This code is only used for item type 1 or 2.
- Waste percentage
- Allocation warehouse
- This field is only displayed if the Main whs mtrl alloc field is set to YES in the MFG control file.
If the STKOWNER (Stock Ownership) function is activated in the Function control file, the warehouse entered must be classified as a normal or trade (logical) warehouse (i.e. the Warehouse characteristic flag in Work with warehouses must be set to 1 (normal) or 2 (trade). See About the stock ownership functionality for more information.
- End network
- Indicates if the explosion of the BOM should stop at this level when a manufacturing order network is created. This will allow the use of standard sub-assemblies within a network.
- Floor stock code
- The floor stock code indicates if material connected to manufacturing orders will be backflushed. If a value is entered it will override the floor stock code that was entered in the Item file.