Slide Title

Item Master/Branch Plant

Overview
Slide TitleSystem
The ERPx
ERPx
Enterprise Requirements, Planning, and Execution
Strategic
Business
Plan

Product Data Management/

Product Costing

Inventory Management
Tactical Resource Requirements Planning
Plan
Sales Order Processing

Forecasting

Distribution Resources Planning

Master Production Schedule
Material Requirements Planning
Rough Cut Capacity Planning
Operational
Plan
Capacity Requirements Planning

Purchasing

Shop Floor Control Execution Finite Scheduler

Manufacturing Accounting
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Item Title Plant

What you will learn in this section:

Item master file fundamentals and
terminology

Part number rules & characteristics

Item master VS branch/plant data

Item master set up and revisions
Slide TitleDefinition
Inventory
Items in a stocking location or work in
process location which serve to
decouple successive operations in the
process of manufacture and distribution
of an item to the customer
 Information
Slide Title Flow
In Inventory
Order Entry
Master Production
Material Requirements Schedule
Planning

Inventory
Shop Floor
Purchasing
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Item Title
COST

The Heart of MPS

INV
Cost
The Company MRP
ITEM
SALE Standard
Labor
PUR Overhead
Descriptive CRP
Material
Number SFC Extra
Description
Units of Meas
Location
Report Codes Planning
Price Lead Times ABC Codes
Stock Type Order Policy Source
Eng Change Families
Buyer/Planner Time Fences
Planning Type
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SlideNumbers
Title
Objective / Criteria
The objective of a part number is to be used as a
common base of information by :

Engineering Cost Accounting

Manufacturing Engineering Materials Management
Production Sales / Order Entry
A part number should be established if:

Stocked Sold

Returnable Facilitates Scheduling

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Inventory

What should be controlled . . .
Raw material and purchased parts
Work in process
Finished goods
Service parts
Vendor and distribution pipeline stocks
 Part
SlideNumber
Title
Characteristics of Effective P.N. Systems

 Unique identifier

 Consistent among product lines

 Ability to sort into categories

 Simple to handle
 Part
SlideNumber
Title
Characteristics of Effective P.N. Systems

 Minimum number of characters

 Easily assigned - maintained

 Fits into a consistent system:

Significant VS Non-significant
 Slide Title to Avoid
Conditions
 Embedded blanks, dashes, or zero’s
 Alpha characters that preclude
use of a check digit
 Reserving large blocks of numbers
for future use
 Long part numbers that can lead to:
Data entry costs
Transposition
Data entry efficiency
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Four Title of Inventory

Item

Item
Branch/Plant

Item/Branch
Location

Item/Branch/Location/Lot
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Slide Master
Title Data
Modified at Branch/Plant

 G/L Category  Planning Family

 Report Codes  Time Fence Rule
 Lead Times  MPS Type
 Stocking Type  Planner / Buyer
 Order Policy / Value
 Item
SlideMaster
Title Data
Maintained at Branch/Plant

 Time Fence Values

 Locations
 Lot Information
 Price / Cost
 Safety Stock
 Vendor
 Minimum / Multiple / Maximum