Item - Properties

Item Group

For reporting purposes, you can group items together by assigning them to a group. Select a group from the drop-down list or click the ellipsis button to create a group. If you hold this item in Inventory, you can search the Inventory by Item Group.

Item Class

For reporting purposes, you can group items together by assigning them to a Class. Select a class from the drop-down list or click the ellipsis button to create a class. If you hold this item in inventory, you can search the inventory by item Class.

Inventory Tracking

Select an option from the drop-down list to specify whether you want to track inventory through the system. If you have previously specified this option and saved the record, you will not be able to change this option.

See About tracking inventory items.

Tracking Number - Mask

The mask used for tracking numbers.

Procurement

The option that you select affects the processing of this item through nesting and ordering. The options are:

§               AutoCut
You can process the item using Nesting and Ordering. Standard lengths defined on the Item - Purchasing Information form are used unless the supplier is a steel mill. In this case, steel lengths are defined on an ad hoc basis on the AutoCut Settings form.

§               Manual Cut
You must manually nest the item.

§               Order to Size
Only items of the specified size will be ordered.

§               Ignore for Procurement
If you have a mechanism outside of STRUMIS for purchasing this item, select this check box. During the Nesting and Ordering process, any prelim marks or mark items to be fabricated from the item will have a status of Covered, meaning that no materials need to be purchased.

Effective Date

The date from which this item is available. Use the calendar to select a date.

Expiry Date

The date on which this item becomes redundant, and therefore unavailable.

Scrap Length

Specify the length at which a bar is scrapped when cutting. The value that you enter here can be overridden using Production Cutting.

Minimum Quantity

Specify the level of Inventory at which an item should be reordered.

Default Inventory Unit

The default unit that is used for this item in the Inventory.

Create production Work Order

If you select this check box, when this item is used to fabricate a contract mark item, a production work order is created for the mark item.

Automatically issue inventory to production (Backflush)

If you select this check box, when a contract mark item is made from this item, the bar from which it is cut (the parent bar) is removed from inventory.

Display individual instances when nesting (Note - option only affects Inventory material)

If you select this check box, the way in which inventory items are displayed in the Nesting and Ordering Wizard is affected. Individual instances are always displayed despite local settings in the Nesting and Ordering Wizard.