Understanding a Product Cumulative Model

Because each customer may want to track this information differently for each branch/plant record, you can specify whether to track by Branch/Plant, Branch/Plant and Sold To, or Branch/Plant, Sold To, and Ship To. You can then specify whether the customer tracks information specific to a Ship To, Customer PO, or any combination of three defined fields.

For example, a customer may track cumulative quantities at a Ship To and Model Year level. To set up this type of model, you would use the Ship To option and enter the user-defined code (UDC) associated with Model Year in User Field 1.

You can associate each cumulative model combination with multiple cumulative records, each distinguished by a different customer item number, which you set up using the CUM Maintenance program (P40R12).

This table indicates the differences between four example models, followed by examples of how you can set up each model to track cumulative information:

Element	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
Sold To	GM	GM	Ford	Ford
Ship To		Livonia		Wixom
Track CUMS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Track by Ship To		Yes	Yes	Yes
Track by Customer PO		Yes
User Defined Field 1	Model Year			Model Year
User Defined Field 2				Dock
User Defined Field 3

An infinite number of model combinations exist that you can set up using any combination of the Sold To, Ship To, Customer PO, and user-defined fields.