The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management system defines discrete inventory items, enabling you to manipulate inventory throughout the supply chain. The term item refers to all components, raw materials, assemblies, and finished goods that are in inventory, as well as supplies that are purchased but not included in inventory. Before you can work with inventory, you must provide information about the items that you stock. You can specify information such as item information, sales and purchasing costs, and available quantities by location to help track and process each item through the supply chain.

 

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system supports style items that are more complex than standard inventory items. Style items may have many attributes, such as size, length, width, and color. To handle these variations easily, you define the variations within the product as different levels of a hierarchy. When you define these levels for a style item, the system creates item numbers for each item variation. Unlike style items, standard JD Edwards EnterpriseOne items do not have multiple levels. 


The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management system integrates with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system to define and manage style items. 

 

Style items have a unique product structure that consists of style item root level 0 as the parent and its associated child items. You may have up to 10 levels in the product hierarchy. The first level of the product hierarchy, style item root level 0, defines the general attributes of a product.

 

You use the Style Item Master program (PCW51) to create a style item in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system. When you create an item, you need to specify the following details: 

The number of child style items available is based on the number of attributes and levels for a product. The details that you specify at the style item root level 0 are inherited by the lower levels in the hierarchy. In addition to the basic attributes that are inherited from style item root level 0, you can specify additional information for child items. These additional details are specific to the child items. 

 

You can use inventory transactions to directly update inventory quantity, location, or lot. All inventory movement updates the item ledger. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system enables you to view, adjust, issue, and transfer groups of child style items based on their multi-level hierarchical definitions. 

 

Prerequisites
Before you complete the tasks in this section: 

  • Define the grid code.
  • Define the size matrix grid.
  • Define a size split.
  • Define a size weight.
  • Verify the setup of the system constants SPLITC and SPLITI.
  • Define custom user-defined codes (UDCs) and values that you use to define valid values for your level types. For example, if you create a level type for color, then you might create UDC 41F/CO with valid values that represent the colors red, black, blue, green, and white.
  • Define which category code in the Item Master holds the item structure code.
  • Define level types.
  • Define the item structure code.
  • Define item structures.
  • Verify the setup of the system constant STRUCTURE.
  • Define level column headings for matrix entry.

 

Upon completion of this topic, you will be able to:

  • Review style item root level 0 setup.
  • Review child style item setup.
  • Review item availability for style items.