INV Trouble Shooters

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1 Inventory Trouble Shooters

1.1 Scenario: User would like to change the routing on the jobs

on items assigned to an item category.

There 3 items which are actually 100% interchangeable. This happened when the

data from dierent legacy sources were merged. While tracking the inventory !ser

want to see consolidated "n #and report as all these items are literally same.

1.1.1 Solution:

Try the report $tem elationships &isting to get the related items and 'ubstitutes

report. #owever they are reported in terms of unit of issue instead of !"(.

1.2 Scenario: Organiation level !ccess"

There is a pro)le in 1* +'ecurity ,ro)le- to restrict the access at "! &evel.

#owever !ser may also want to have users transacting only in certain

organiations. #ow to do this/ $s it make certain organiation as default/ $s it

possible to restrict the &" in change organiation 'creen/

1.2.1 Solution:

Try $nventory 2 'etup 2 "rganiation ccess to restrict users to certain

"rganiations.

1.# Scenario: Inventory data in the $ast"

#ow to )nd the ,ro4ected $nventory on #and or in the past to know the inventory on

hand on certain date/

1.#.1 Solution:

5uild $nventory ,osition will provide the re6uired details. The data can show the

data as per the rolled back dates.

The navigation is $nventory 2 "nhand vailability 2 $nventory ,osition 2 5uild

and than 7isplay.

1.% Scenario: Same item with minor &haracteristic changes

$ have same item with some characteristic changes. They are all more or less same

items with small changes like dierent logos color etc. We don8t want to create

multiple items for this purpose but want some dierentiation.

1.%.1 Solution:


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9ou can use related and substitute items according to your business. With minor

changes like you said +&ogo :olor- you may also try the option of evisions with

these additional components mapped to 5"( of each revision.

1.' Scenario: Unable to &hange Item (ame

$ was able to change the $tem name when the changed name automatically

re;ected in all transactions. 5ut in my customer instance $ am unable to change the

name. What can be the reason/

1.'.1 Solution:

There is a pro)le $


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1.,.1 Solution

5: nalysis provides the options to classify the items based on various business

re6uirements like alue :ost valuation etc.

"n consumption side you can choose #istorical usage as the criterion. &ogically the

movement of goods will be fast when there are more issues and receipts for theitem and 'low when there are less issues and receipts of the item.

1.0 Scenario: *ow to hide Item &ost details to certain users

$tem cost calculation and updates are restricted to speci)c responsibilities. #owever

from the item form any user is able to launch $tem :ost details to view the

information. The :ustomer may want to restrict some users from seeing these

details.

1.0.1 Solution

1.C.1.1 9ou can control through the help of ,ro)le D(A= !ser "rganiation 'ecurity

in :osting Aorms. 9ou can set the restriction at !ser level.

1. Scenario: &ongured Item 3ead Time not calculated

$ro$erly

The user created an T" (odel which has a base lead time of * days. The (odel

item has E operations each taking 1 day and two of them are optional.

The con)gured item was created through ,rogress order from the 'ales line

containing the T" (odel. The lead time of the :on)gured item is coming up as *

days. The user is not convinced on how the lead time is being calculated wrong.


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1..1 Solution

The lead time calculation for the con)gured item happens at the time of con)gured

item creation. #owever the calculation depends on a few parameters.

1.F.1.1 When the con)gured item creation happens from 'ales order line Work Alow

through progress order the calculation is performed on the basis of value of

,ro)le :T"= ,erform &ead Time :alculation +in 412 Only- which must be

'et to 9es for the calculation to happen. #owever if the con)gured item

creation is initiated through :oncurrent program utocreate con)gured

items you can override the defaulted value of ,rogram parameter perform

lead time calculation to 9es even if the pro)le value is


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When the user searches the items are not getting populated. Whereas there are

sales orders and W$, 4obs there for the item which means the user sure item is

eBisting.

1.15.1 Solution

1.10.1.1 The search in "racle pps is case sensitive. 'o try wild card search like

%pple if you search pple because you may not know whether the item

eBists as apple or pple. "r copy the item in W$, @ob or 'ales order and

paste while searching.

1.10.1.* "ther possibility is that there might be a folder setting to )lter the

view.

9ou may see the folder icon with name which means there is a folder. $n

such case change the folder settings to uto?uery >


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*. (ake sure the item doesn8t have on hand 6uantity. $n case there is on hand

6uantity please make sure the items are used and issued to make sure the

on hand is ero.3. (ake sure the item doesn8t eBist as eective component in any 5ill of parent

item.

a. ,lease run where used items report to check if the item is eBisting inthe bills as eective component.

b. HBpire all the records where the item is eBisting as active componentc. $n case there are too many bills where you need to eBpire the item as

component you can run (ass edit program

1.11.1.* "ption *

9ou can delete the item.

9ou need to delete groups to delete the item.

&ike in case of "ption 1 you still need to make sure=

1. There are no open transactions such as 'ales "rders purchase orders

?uotes W$, @obs Alow 'chedules and others involving the item*. (ake sure the item doesn8t have on hand 6uantity. $n case there is on hand

6uantity please make sure the items are used and issued to make sure the

on hand is ero.3. (ake sure the item doesn8t eBist as eective component in any 5ill of parent

item.a. ,lease run where used items report to check if the item is eBisting in

the bills as eective component.b. HBpire all the records where the item is eBisting as active component

c. $n case there are too many bills where you need to eBpire the item ascomponent you can run (ass edit program

1.12 8usiness Scenario : 4emoving Organiation !ssignment

+or !ctive Item9ou assigned a primary !"( for the item and now you do not want to use the !"(

any more. 'uch scenario arrives when the business pattern changes and market

starts using the items in a dierent !"(. HBamples include pieces of bread to

7oens of bread as more people started buying in 7oens. 'imilarly the space is

nowadays transacted in '6uare feet in place of '6uare yards.

1.12.1 Solution

"nce the item is transacted removing the association of !"( from the item is not

easy. There are a few work around as below. 7epending on the scenarios you may

use one of such options


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1.1*.1.1 "ption 1=

$f the item is not transacted you can delete the item and add the item with same

name again with the !"( of your choice.

This work around is possible when you 6uickly realied the mistake of assigning

wrong !"( even before any transactions happened. "nce a transaction happensthis option will have other impacts.

1.1*.1.* "ption *

ename the item to another with appropriate description indicating that the item is

associated with a wrong !"( or !"( that you no longer prefer to use as ,rimary

!"(.

:reate the new item with the original name and assign the correct !"(.

This alternative can have some impacts as below=

($' reports do not re;ect all the data that belonged to the item before !"( change

and after !"( :hange in the system +actually both are same item-

5ecause of the above issue the decision making on the item may not be properly

made.

9ou may need to customie to get consolidated reports from both the versions of

items before and after !"( change.

"ne option is to de)ne the renamed item as substitute to the new item and run

reports to get the overall view.

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