New features, version 7.5.2, 7.5.3, 8.1, 7.5.4, 8.4
Program ICEM, Item Plant Maintenance, is used to maintain location and control information for inventory items once they have been established with program ICMM, Inventory Master Maintenance. You can enter stock location data for all inventory items. You can only enter control information for items with a control type of Lot or Serial in program ICMM, Inventory Master Maintenance.
Control information includes the generate rule, pick rule, last control number, and maximum lot quantity. Default pick rules must be defined for automatic picking of lot controlled or serial controlled items to function.
Once items are designated as controlled, purchasing will require the assignment of control numbers when goods are received. In work orders, control numbers can be assigned when finished goods are received into stock, or they can be pre-assigned after the work order is released but before the finished goods are received.
Whenever goods are withdrawn from stock for sale to a customer, transfer to another plant, or issue to a work order, the control numbers that are being used must be supplied.
Alternate Units of Measure and Preferred SKUs
1. The program opens in query mode. Query the item number for which you wish to maintain information.
2. In the Preferred SKU field, enter the preferred alternate unit of measure for this item from program ICMM, Inventory Master Maintenance. When an alternate unit of measure is entered here, the item quantities will be calculated in the unit of measure entered here whenever possible in the item's locations.
3. Set the POS Retail Item flag to on, if the item can be sold in a point of sale transaction.
4. Set the Stocked in plant XX flag to the desired setting.
This flag will be used in a future feature.
The default setting of this flag is determined by the ICEM_STOCKED_DEF parameter in program MURM, Initialization Parameter Maintenance, for the logged in plant.
5. Set the Shippable from plant XX flag to the desired setting. During sales order entry, when an item is entered on the sales order line, the system checks this flag to make sure that the item can be shipped from the plant. If this flag is set to off for a plant, the sales order entry program will display a warning if the item is entered to be shipped from that plant.
The default setting of this flag is determined by the ICEM_SHIPPABLE_DEF parameter in program MURM, Initialization Parameter Maintenance, for the logged in plant.
6. Set the Backflush Rule pop-list to the desired setting. The choices are Use Production Line Backflush Location and Use Item Backflush Location.
If Use Production Line Backflush Location is chosen, when non-controlled items are backflushed for production schedules, they will be backflushed from the location for the production line entered in program WCLM, Production Line Maintenance.
When non-controlled items are backflushed from work orders, they are backflushed from the backflush location assigned to the work center and machine for the routing operation to which the item is assigned.
If Use Item Backflush Location is chosen, when non-controlled items are backflushed for production schedules, they will be backflushed from the item backflush location entered in this program.
Controlled items are backflushed according to the pick rule entered in this program. Controlled items defined as optional control in program ICEM, Item/Plant Maintenance, cannot be backflushed from non-controlled locations. Do not define the backflush location for a controlled item as a non-controlled location.
7. In the Default Stock Location Area and Bin fields, enter the default stock area and bin location.
The information displayed for new item defaults from the setting in program ILPM, Plant Code Maintenance.
Quarantine locations cannot be assigned as the default stock location for an item.
For non-maintain on hand items, this is the location from which the item will be shipped.
8. In the Item Backflush Location Area and Bin fields, enter the item's backflush location. If the Backflush Rule pop-list in this program is set to Use Item Backflush Location, this is the item's backflush location.
Controlled items are backflushed according to the pick rule entered in this program. Controlled items defined as optional control in program ICEM, Item/Plant Maintenance, cannot be backflushed from non-controlled locations. Do not define the backflush location for a controlled item as a non-controlled location.
Quarantine locations cannot be assigned as the backflush location for an item.
9. In the Target Stock Qty field, enter the
quantity that should remain in the 'To Location' after the moves are completed
and the allocations are filled. This quantity is added to the move quantity
in program ICRC, Inventory Replenishment, when
inventory replenishment moves are calculated.
This field is also updated in program ICPM, Inventory
Planning Data Maintenance.
10. In the Manufacturing field, enter the default manufacturing plant for the item.
The default manufacturing plant determines the plant in which the work order is created when automatically creating work orders.
The default manufacturing plant is used for multiple plant planning with Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Master Production Scheduling (MPS).
Work orders are also automatically created with program OQEM, Sales Order Quotation Entry/Maintenance, and program OEOE, Sales Order Entry Maintenance.
11. In the Ship From Plant field, enter the default ship from plant.
The default ship from plant is used to determine the plant from which sales order lines will be shipped for this item.
If no record is entered here for the item, the item will be automatically shipped from the sales location plant in program ARLM, Location Maintenance.
List price and unit cost on the sales order are taken from the default ship from plant for the item.
12. In the Default ECL field, enter the default engineering change level (ECL) for this item for this plant.
The engineering change level (ECL) entered here overrides the Current ECL entered for the item in program ICMM, Inventory Master Maintenance.
This allows you to enter a different bill of material in program BMMM, Bill of Material Maintenance, for an item for each plant. The appropriate bill of material for the plant is assigned to the item in this program.
When creating work orders, the engineering change level (ECL) here will be used. If no engineering change level (ECL) is entered here, the Current ECL for the item in program ICMM, Inventory Master Maintenance, will be used.
13. In the Default Routing Rev field, enter the default engineering change level (ECL) for this item for this plant.
The routing revision entered here overrides the Current Rtg Rev entered for the item in program ICMM, Inventory Master Maintenance.
This allows you to enter a different routing in program RTMM, Routing Master Maintenance, for an item for each plant. The appropriate routing for the plant is assigned to the item in this program.
When creating work orders, the routing here will be used. If no routing is entered here, the Current Rtg Rev for the item in program ICMM, Inventory Master Maintenance, will be used.
14. Press [Commit].
15. If the Control Type was set to Serial or Lot in program ICMM, Inventory Master Maintenance, you must enter the control parameters in this program.
If the item will be controlled depending upon the stock location in which it exists, set the Optional Control flag to on. You cannot change the setting of this flag unless no item location records exist for the item in non-controlled locations.
For optional control items, when the item is moved from a controlled location to a non-controlled location, the control numbers assigned to the items are unassigned, and the item becomes a non-controlled item. When the item is moved from a non-controlled location to a controlled location, a control number is assigned to the item according to the parameters entered in program ICEM, Item/Plant Maintenance. Optional control items have the Optional Control flag in program ICEM, Item/Plant Maintenance, set to on.
Controlled items that are not defined as optional control cannot be stocked in non-controlled locations. Non-control items can be stocked in both non-controlled and controlled locations.
Controlled items must have a control number to be picked for sales order and work orders, regardless of the optional control flag in program ICEM, Item/Plant Maintenance. Controlled items cannot be shipped or staged from non-controlled locations.
If item location records exist for the item in non-controlled locations, but the on hand quantities are zero, you can purge the zero quantity item location records with program IMLP, Purge Zero Quantity Locations.
Enter the Generate Rule for the control number.
A Generate the next control number as the next sequential numeric number. The program will look at the each character starting from the end of the last control number used, find the numeric part, and add a 1 to it. For example, if the last control number used was 961230G, the next control number will be 961231G.
C Generate the control number using the date and sequence number. The system will create the control number according to the system date and put a three-digit sequence number at the end in the form YYMMDD-NNN. If more than one control number is created on the same day, the system will find the highest control number with the same date and add a one to the sequence number. For example, if two control numbers were created on the same day, the first might be 961230-001 and the second might be 961230-002.
D Generate the control numbers according to unused control numbers that have been set up previously in program ITCM, Item Control Number Maintenance. In order to use this rule, you must have set up previously set up control numbers in program ITCM, Item Control Number Maintenance, even if the Auto Create Ok flag is set to on. The program chooses the control number by looking at the First Rpt field. It will find the lowest control number that has the First Rpt field blank.
M Manual entry. You manually enter the control numbers for this item. In order for this option to work, the generate rule must be set to Manual entry, and the Auto Create Ok flag must be set to on.
Enter the Pick Rule for the control number.
A Pick control numbers by sequence, the lowest control numbers are picked first. If the item is lot controlled and the lots are split, the control numbers will be picked according to the bin sequence within the lot. This is providing that the bins are in a logical sequence.
B Pick control numbers according to the on hand quantity. The control numbers with the lowest on hand quantity will be picked first. If control numbers have the same on hand quantity, the program will pick the lowest control number first.
C Pick control numbers from the smallest lot with a quantity that will satisfy the demand. This prevents the program from picking control numbers from more than one lot.
D Pick control numbers according to the lot expiration date.
E Pick control numbers according to the date of first receipt. The control numbers received first are picked first.
M Manual entry. Manually pick the control numbers.
Enter the last control number used.
This also updated by programs that automatically generate control numbers.
Set the Auto Create Ok flag to on, if desired.
The Auto Create Ok flag must be set to on to allow the creating of a control number from input programs.
If the Auto Create Ok flag is set to off, a control number must be previously created in program ITCM, Item Control Number Maintenance, before the input of inventory from other programs.
If the generate rule is set to D, control numbers must be entered in program ITCM, Item Control Number Maintenance, even if the Auto Create Ok flag is set to on.
If the generate rule is Manual, the control number must be manually entered, or various automatic generation rules can be established to have the programs create the control number.
Enter the Maximum Lot Quantity.
Quantities for item control type Lot can be fractional, but quantities for item control type Serial are always an integer. The maximum lot quantity for serially controlled items must be "0" or "1".
16. For non-controlled items that are shipped with program OESB, Sales Order Batch Shipping, when the Batch Ship Method in program ILPM, Plant Code Maintenance, is set to Any Shippable Location, the Pick Rule set up here is used to determine the location from which the inventory is shipped.
A Pick in ascending stock area / bin location sequence.
B Pick according to the on hand quantity. The item locations with the lowest on hand quantity will be picked first. If item locations have the same on hand quantity, the program will pick from the first stock area/bin location found.
C Pick from the item location with the smallest quantity that will satisfy the demand. If there are none, then pick in descending on hand sequence (the item location with the greatest quantity, then the item location with the next greatest quantity, until the demand is satisfied).
D Pick from the backflush location, then from the default location, then in ascending stock area / bin location sequence.
E Pick from the backflush location, then from the default location, then in ascending stock area / bin location sequence.
M Pick from the backflush location, then from the default location, then in ascending stock area / bin location sequence.
Blank Pick from the backflush location, then from the default location, then in ascending stock area / bin location sequence.
17. Press [Commit].