1. Blend Management Implementation Guide
  2. Understanding Additive Operations

Understanding Additive Operations

Additives are dry goods that are added directly to the product during the blend process. Examples might include:

  • Alcohol

  • Sulfur

  • Cultures

  • Wine-based additions

  • Fining agents

  • Sugar

You set up additives as items in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management system. Item setup includes information such as stocking type, line type, and lot processing information. When setting up item information, you must set up the unit of measure conversions that you need when creating additive operations. For costing purposes, define an item cost for the additive.

See "Entering Item Information" in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications Inventory Management Implementation Guide.

Additives are composed of active and inactive ingredients. Set up a bill of material to list all the ingredients of the additive and to specify whether each ingredient is an active or an inactive ingredient. An additive can have more than one active ingredient. You can only use zero batch bills for additives. When you create additive operations, the system uses the bill of material quantities to calculate the quantity of additives required to produce the specified quantity of bulk material.

Note: Additives must be included in a bill of material. If you try to add an additive or item that is not associated with a bill of material, the system issues an error message.

Additive operations are configured to be in-place operations.

See "Setting Up Bills of Material" in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications Product Data Management Implementation Guide.

When you create an additive operation, the system stores the active ingredients with the lot as parts-per-million. The ingredients are copied or added to the lot's existing active ingredients. You can review the existing and new active ingredients added for a lot on the Instructed Attributes form.

The types of information that you must specify when instructing additives include:

  • Additive identifier.

  • Additive form (liquid, gas, and so on).

  • Amount or rate.

  • Instructions.

  • Equipment necessary to use the additive.

  • Limits and other specifications that the system uses for validation.