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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.
- Unit
- The code from the Item file that indicates the stock unit of the component.
- Cost price
- The cost price. The system will use this cost price at project/quotation product costing.
- Supplier
- This field is only displayed when the program is in add mode and the Direct pur to m-order field is set to YES in the MFG control file OR when the program is in change mode and the item is defined as fictitious. Enter the supplier number for the item. This field can only be entered for a fictitious item.
- Purchase price
- This field is only displayed when the program is in add mode and the Direct pur to m-order field is set to YES in the MFG control file OR when the program is in change mode and the item is defined as fictitious. Enter the purchase price for the item used for product costing and for purchase order creation from manufacturing order. This field can only be entered for a fictitious item.
- Price unit
- This field is only displayed if the following is true:
- The PRCUNIT (Price unit handling) function is activated in the Function control file. (See About price unit handling for more information).
- You are in the add mode and Direct pur to m-order field is set to YES in the MFG control file OR when you are in change mode and the item is defined as fictitious.
Enter the purchase price unit for the item used for product costing and for purchase order creation from a manufacturing order. You can only enter a value if the purchase price for a fictitious item has been entered.
- Order link
- Displays the information referring to a connected order and is built up with the following parts:
- Type of order (2=Purchase order, 5=Requisition order)
- Order number
- Order line number
- Order/Line status
- Acquisition type
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- Component category 1 – 3
- The component categories can be used for search in an enquiry function. A special batch program, i.e. Component category enq file creation, must be run before enquiries can be made on the category fields.
- Re-usable
- This field is only displayed if the Re-usable material field is set to YES in the MFG control file. Indicates if the component is re-usable if scrapped quantity is reported. A proposal is displayed during operation reporting and the user can make a decision whether the item should be put to stock or not.