Item Relationships

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Inventory /

You can define relationships between items. This allows you to search for items through these relationships. Except in Oracle Purchasing, these relationships are for inquiry and reporting purposes only. Item Relationships with Oracle Purchasing Within Oracle Purchasing you can define acceptable substitute items for receiving. You must define a list of substitutes before you receive a substitute item in place of an originally ordered item. Attention: If you receive a substitute item, you must have previously defined a unit of measure conversion between the unit of measure on the purchase order and the unit of measure on the receipt.

CrossSell: This relationship indicates that one item may be sold in lieu of another item. UpSell: This relationship indicates that a newer version of the item exists, and can be sold in place of the older item. Service: This relationship establishes service items for a repairable item.

Prerequisite: This relationship indicates that you must possess one of the items as a requirement to possessing the other item. Collateral: This relationship indicates collateral, such as marketing brochures, that you possess for an item. Superceded: This relationship indicates that one item has replaced another item that is no longer available. Complimentary: This relationship indicates if a customer purchases one item, the other item is received for free. Impact: This relationship is used to relate items to each other but only under special conditions. Conflict: This relationship indicates that these items may never be used together. Mandatory Charge: This relationship indcates a mandatory charge if the customer purchases both items. Optional Charge: This relationship indicates an optional charge if the customer purchases both items. Promotional Upgrade: This relationship enables a customer to upgrade from one item to another item or equal or higher value, without an additional charge. Split: This relationship enables you to split support for an item so you do not have to manually split support at contract renewal. To use this relationship, you must be in a planning enabled organization. Merge: This relationship enables rules based consolidation of contracts. You may use the earliest or latest target end date for consolidation. This allows you to choose how contracts are consolidated. To use this relationship, you must be in a planning enabled organization. Migration: During contact renewal you are given the option of renewing contracts based on new licenses, or old licenses. To use this relationship, you must be in a planning enabled organization. Repair to: You use the Repair to item relationship with field service operations that use spares management functionality. If a part has been superseded by another part, the Repair to item relationship determines the replacement part.

Assigning - Subinventories & Item

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 18:00

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Assigning Subinventories to an Item

You can assign a list of subinventories to an item. You restrict an item to the list of subinventories by setting the Restrict Subinventories attribute when you define or update the item.

You also use the item/subinventory relationship to specify valid subinventories for zero quantity cycle counts for an item, and to specify items for an ABC analysis performed at the subinventory level. In these cases you do not have to set the Restrict Subinventories attribute, only establish the relationship between the item and subinventory. You can also specify planning information and locators for the item in its assigned subinventories. This information is used to perform minmax planning and replenishment processing at the subinventory level.

Assigning Items to a Subinventory

You can assign items to a given subinventory. Assigning items to a subinventory does not restrict the subinventory to that list of items. Rather, the items are restricted to that subinventory. Thus, you can always issue and receive unrestricted items to any subinventory, but you can only issue and receive restricted items to their list of subinventories. You activate the list of subinventories for a restricted item by setting the Restrict Subinventories attribute when defining or updating items. You also use the item/subinventory relationship to specify valid subinventories for zero quantity cycle counts for an item, and to specify items for an ABC analysis performed at the subinventory level. In these cases you do not have to set the Restrict Subinventories attribute, only establish the relationship between the item and subinventory. You can also specify planning information related to the items you assign to a given subinventory.

Notes: 1. Assigning items to subinventory or subinventory to item does the same thing i.e it 'll

restrict the item to those assigned subinventories if restrict subinventory option is enabled in item master inventory tab for that item. When an item is restricted to a sub inventory, you 'll only get the restricted subinventories in LOV of subinventory while doing any transaction

2. While assigning subinventories to an item, go to the required organization parameter first. 3. If you attach an item to a subinventory in item/subinventory then the subinventoryll be available in assigned subinventories form for that item in item master tool