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You can enable an item for each functional area by using that functional area's item defining attribute. An item defining attribute identifies the nature of an item. For example, what designates an item as an "engineering item" is the attribute Engineering Item. If a functional area's item defining attribute is controlled at the Organization level, then that functional area may only have an Organization level default category set.

You set the item defining attribute when you define the item. The item defining attributes are:

Functional Area	Item Defining Attribute	Enabling Value
Inventory	Inventory Item	Yes
Purchasing	Purchased	Yes
	Internal Ordered Item	Yes
Master Scheduling/ MRP	MRP Planning Method	MRP Planning, MPS Planning
Cost Management	Costing Enabled	Yes
Engineering	Engineering Item	Yes
Order Entry	Customer Ordered Item	Yes
Service	Support Service, or	Yes
	Serviceable Product	Yes
Product Line Accounting	none	n/a

When you enable an item for a certain functional area, Oracle Inventory automatically assigns the item to the default category set of that functional area and the default category of that set. For example, if you set Inventory Item to Yes, then Inventory automatically assigns the item to the Inventory functional area's default category set and default category.

You may change a functional area's default category set under certain conditions. You should ensure that every item within the functional area belongs to the new default category set (which replaces the existing default category set). If the item defining attribute of the functional area is controlled at the Organization level then the new default category set should also be controlled at the Organization level.

Prerequisites

   You must define at least one category set. See: Defining Category Sets.

   To define a default category set:

1. Navigate to the Default Category Sets window.

2. Select the category set to use as the default for the functional area.

Oracle Inventory also makes this category set mandatory for all items defined for use by the functional area.

You should not change the Purchasing category set after you have created requisition or purchase order lines using the categories.

Product Line Accounting is enabled when you assign a default category set.

3. Save your work.

See Also

Overview of Item Categories

Item Defining Attributes