Additive Thresholds

You can set up the system to check whether the quantity of active ingredient in an additive exceeds a specified range. You set up this range by defining operational or cumulative thresholds for the additive item when you set up the Item Master and the Item Branch record. You can set up threshold values for the active ingredients on the parent item's bill of material, and the system uses these values to evaluate the extended quantity of the active ingredient that you enter for the operation.

If you set up operational threshold values, the system compares the extended quantity of the active ingredient for the current operation with minimum and maximum threshold value that you defined for the item. If you use cumulative threshold values, the system compares the PPM quantity of the accumulated additive for an operation with the minimum and maximum threshold value. You can use either operational or cumulative thresholds or both.

Depending on the status of an additive operation, the system issues either a warning or an error when the quantity for the active ingredient is outside of the allowed range that you specified for the additive item. The warning or error is generated when you click the Calculate button on the Additive form or when you click Save and Close on the operation header. As long as an operation is still in status Active, the system issues a warning. For operations that are in status Actual or Closed, the system issues an error. In this case, the system displays the Threshold Reason area of the form. You must enter a reason code if you want to make any changes to the operation with the threshold error.