Use this function to create, inquire upon and update data associated with a specific product at a specific site. You can also customize the supplier - products management rules by site.

SEEINFO Many of the fields are populated automatically from the product category record.

Prerequisites

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Screen management

The Products-sites function contains a home and a section for each feature of the requirement:

  • Home information. The home information provides key product-site information, including the status of the product at the site.
  • Management. This is the main link for this function. Use this section to define core management controls to run on the product and site, for example quality management and storage locations.
  • Planning. This section displays the details of your stock policy, including any firm horizons, reordering, safety levels, and manufacturing or purchasing lead-times.
  • Stock. This section is here for information purposes only. It displays stock totals for the product at the site.
  • Totals. This section is here for information purposes only. It displays statistical movement data.
  • Calculated data. This section displays the details of your stock management policy. You can use this information to make sure that enough stock to complete work and sales orders on time.
  • Manufacturing. This section is available if the product is a manufactured product. It displays routing and weighing controls.
  • Cost. This section displays the costing and pricing information and the valuation method to use for the stock.
  • Counts. This section displays the stock count information, including the date of the last stock count and statistical data for each stock count.
  • Warehouses. This section displays logistics information.
  • Suppliers. Use this section to customize the supplier product management rules by site.
  • Attributes. Use this section to assign characteristics to this product for this site that can be referenced by your manufacturing processes.

Home

The home information provides key product-site information, including the status of the product at the site. The home information is displayed irrespective of the section being selected.

Tab Management

Use this section to define core management controls to run on the product and site.

You can associate a group of location types or default locations to a movement type using the * character, if assigning default locations to the product and site.

To set up labels associated with locations see the Product categories documentation.

Tab Planning

Use this section to plan your stock policy, and ensure that enough stock is available to complete work and sales orders on time.

  • Planning: Use this block to define the firm horizons for requests for this product, taking the seasonality into account, if necessary.
  • Lead times: Use this block to assign the average manufacturing lead-time or purchasing lead-time for this product and site.
  • Reordering: Use this block to define reorder and safety levels. These are used in Material Requirements Planning (MRP), the Master Production Schedule (MPS) and in reorder processing.

Tab Stock

This section displays the stock totals for the product at the site.

Tab Totals

This section displays statistical data relating to goods in and goods out movements. Fiscal year and period totals are also provided.

Tab Calculated data

Use this section to enter additional details to support your stock management policy. You can use this information to make sure that enough stock is available to complete work and sales orders on time. You can enter the data manually or it can be calculated and updated automatically by the Statistical reordering function (FUNSTKB).

Tab Manufacturing

This section is available if the product is a manufactured product. Use it to define routing and weighing controls.

Tab Cost

Use this section to define costing and pricing information, and the valuation method to use for the stock.

Tab Counts

This section displays the stock count information, including the date of the last stock count and statistical data for each stock count.

Tab Warehouses

This section displays logistics information.

Tab Suppliers

Use this section to customize the supplier product management rules by site. You can specify a default supplier by site, also if the supplier is blocked for the site, if it is a back-to-back order supplier, etc. These rules are used for the supply planning as well as for purchase transactions. To use these functions, defining these rules is mandatory if the ITMBPSFCY - Supplier-site referencing parameter (ACH chapter, REF group) is set to Mandatory.

The supplier must have been previously defined at the supplier-products level.

Tab Attributes

This section is populated by default from attributes defined on the product record. You use this section to classify this product - site combination by assigning a list of common identifiable characteristics defined specifically for your manufacturing processes. For example, if this product is a bicycle frame that is sprayed a color as part of the manufacturing process of assembling a bicycle, you use this section to classify this product by assigning an attribute that applies to color or paint, and the specific color that applies to this product - site combination you assign as an attribute value. Both the attribute characteristics, and the attribute values you assign are customized attribute classifications that are specific to your organization. You use these characteristics in a product - attribute matrix which supplies data to your web scheduling solution to optimize production times.

Attributes are only used with your web scheduling solution. They are not used with work orders or Production Scheduler. Finite scheduler is a generic interface that provides an integration connector, developed by Sage, to connect to Sage X3 Web Scheduling

Reports

By default, the following reports are associated with this function :

  ITMFORM : Product information by site

This can be changed using a different setup.

Specific actions

Product-warehouse

Click the Products-warehouse action to view the associated product-warehouse record.

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Error messages

In addition to the generic error messages, the following messages can appear during the entry :

Non warehouse site

The site entered (in creation) is not a warehouse. It cannot be used to create product-site records.

Non valid route for this usage at this site

The route alternative selected is not authorized for the site or for the associated processing (Production, Cost, MRP, RCCP).

The reorder policy that require a maximum stock

This message is displayed when the maximum stock is left at 0 and the reorder policy requires a "maximum stock addition".

The reorder threshold must be >= safety stock
or
The maximum stock must be >= the reorder threshold
or
The maximum stock must be >= the safety stock

Verify the coherence of these fields.

One routing version exists

The routing version defined already exists for this product. Each major version and, if applicable, major plus minor version must be unique.

A link exists for site [site code] with routing [routing code]

This message will be displayed if the routing already exists at the displayed site.

The routing is used by the product-site [product-site code]

This message will be displayed if the routing already exists for the displayed product-site record.

Different routing version management between [product code] and [routing code]

The format of the routing version defined is incorrect. Please refer to the product record.

Tables used

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