Project-Specific Material

When you work with ETO projects, you must be able to distinguish the material that you purchase or produce for the project from general inventory. If you do not define the items that you use for the project as project specific, you might experience difficulties in terms of project supplies. Defining project-specific material enables you to:

• Maintain project-specific inventory commitments.

• Recognize end items as project specific at completion.

• Perform project-specific financial commitments.

You do not have to setup all inventory as project-specific inventory. Only items that are critical to the project should be setup as project-specific. You use material requirements planning to plan all items that are used across various projects.

You define project-specific items by assigning them one of two codes from the Stocking Type Code UDC table (41/I) when you set up the item in the Item Branch/Plant program (P41026). The system currently provides two predefined codes: G (for items that are manufactured for a project) and H (for items that are purchased for a project). Both codes include a special handling code of P to indicate that items that are set up with these two stocking types are treated as project specific by the system. For planning purposes, the Description 2 field contains the code that indicates whether the item should be purchased or manufactured.

See also:

• "Entering Item Information, Entering Branch, Plant Information" in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications Inventory Management Implementation Guide.