Understanding the Configured Item Revisions Program

After you set up the segments, cross-segment editing rules, assembly inclusion rules, configured tables, and media object attachments for a configured item, you can enter orders for the configured item.

Use the Configured Item Revisions program (P3210) to designate the features and options of a configured item on an order. You use Sales Order Entry (P4210), Purchase Orders (P4310), and Manufacturing Work Order Processing (P48013) to enter an order for a configured item. As with any order, you enter information in the order header and order detail areas. After you enter the item number and press Tab, or move off that order line, the system automatically calls and displays the Configure Item form. This process occurs because the item number of the configured item is coded as a C stocking type in the Item Master. Thus, the system is programmed to automatically call the Configured Item Revisions program so that the configured item can be defined for the order.

The processing options for the Configured Item Revisions program control the display of information on the Configure Item form. Within the order entry process, you use dynamic configuration entry or the validate configuration feature. The system uses the validate configuration feature for non-dynamic and single pass rules processing.

The Message Center displays configuration specific information such as the configuration state, hot spot values, weight, and error messages. The configuration state indicates if the configuration is valid, invalid, or if validation is required. You can display up to ten different hot spot values on the Configure Item form. The hot spots that appear after successful rules calculation are set by the processing options. To review detailed error messages, you click the error link.

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Configurator system also calculates the weight of a configured item based on the multilevel items that make up the parent item. You can select to designate a base weight for the configured item. The weight is calculated as the item is entered within order entry. You must enter the same weight units of measure for each segment that makes up the configured parent item. Weight is calculated by using P rule components only.

The Item Filter field gives you access to the configured items and associated segments at various levels in the parent configured item when you click the item number that is in the Item Filter field.

The segments that represent the features and options of the configured item that is highlighted appear. Several fields appear to further define the segments. You enter a value for each segment in the Select Answer or Enter Answer field. The Select Answer field gives you access to any user-defined codes (UDCs) that might be defined for the segment. You enter a value in the Enter Answer field if no UDC is attached to the segment. The system edits each segment value using UDC tables, ranges, and numeric specifications.

The segment numbers and UDCs display on the Configure Item form at order entry. Segment numbers display in the Segment Number field. You use the UDC Display processing option on the Processing tab of the Configured Item Revisions program to specify whether a segment answer in the Select Answer field displays as a code or description from the associated UDC. Once the processing option is set, you can select segment answers by code or description in the Select Answer field.

Many line items on configured orders can share a common attribute. A common attribute that is used in a configured item can be set at the start of an order. The chosen value can be applied as the default to each subsequent line item that is entered. This feature is useful in a high attribute selection and high line item order environment. The feature can save time and labor during the order entry process. It also prevents unnecessary errors during order entry. The common attribute can then be revised in the middle of order entry to accommodate changes in customer specifications.

Processing options control the prompting for common attributes. The common attribute can be set to automatically appear at the beginning of order entry (between the order form and the Configure Item form). You can also access the Configurator Common Attributes form from the Configure Item form during configuration definition.

For example, the furniture industry can use common attributes to configure a sofa. In a configuration for a sofa, a common attribute might be Color. The Color common attribute is associated with the segments for the sofa frame, bottom sofa cushions, sofa arm covers, and decorative pillows. After the customer picks a color, you can enter that value in the Attribute field on the Configurator Common Attributes form. The color is then applied as the answer to all of the segments that are associated with that particular common attribute.

Media object attachments display in the lower region of the Configure Item form if the processing options are set and there is a media object attached to the configured item. You can enter nonstandard components and price adjustments to the configured item. You can also access configured item inventory and history information from the Configure Item form.

The Configured String History program (P3296) locates previously ordered configurations at any level of a configured item. The history includes information about customers, orders, order types, and branch/plant.

The Configured Item Inventory Search program (P3220) locates inventory that can be used to fulfill the order for the configured item.