Entering Multiple Items
Access the Item Maintenance form.
To add new items, click the Go To End button on the grid.
- Item Number
Enter the eight-digit, computer-assigned number that identifies the item.
- Default Supplier
Enter a value that specifies the default supplier for an item. The Lot Start process uses this value.
- 3rd Item Number
Enter a 25-digit, user-defined, alphanumeric item number.
The system provides three separate item numbers, plus an extensive cross-reference capability to other item numbers to accommodate substitute item numbers, replacements, bar codes, customer numbers, supplier numbers, and so forth.
- Short Item No (short item number)
Enter the eight-digit, computer-assigned item number that is given to new items.
- Default Cost Code
Enter the default cost code that the system enters on the takeoff master when you add an item to a takeoff record.
- Default Price
Enter the default price of an item if no corresponding value is in the Material Item Pricing table (F44H603).
- Price Factor
Enter a value that the system uses to determine the conversion factor for an item.
- Item Cat Code 1–5
Enter a code from UDC 44H6/01. Item category codes are associated with the Item Master Homebuilder Extension table (F44H4101).
- Natl Pur Commod (national purchasing commodity)
Enter an item number that is a national commodity for cross-referencing the area item number during the national purchasing process.