1. Project Manufacturing Implementation Guide
  2. Understanding Production Controlled Item Setup

Understanding Production Controlled Item Setup

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management system defines discrete inventory items, which enable you to manipulate inventory throughout the supply chain. The term item refers to all components, raw materials, assemblies, and finished goods that are in inventory, as well as supplies that are purchased but not included in inventory. Before you can work with inventory, you must provide information about the items that you stock. You can specify information such as item information, sales and purchasing costs, and available quantities by location to help track and process each item through the supply chain.

See “Introduction to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management" in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications Inventory Management Implementation Guide.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Project Manufacturing supports items that are production controlled. When you set up the item master and branch/plant information, you provide JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Project Manufacturing with the information that it needs to create and manage production controlled items. You use the Production Number Controlled option to enable production number control by item or item branch/plant.

The ability to enable the Production Number Controlled option is based on the stocking type of the item. The system does not support production number control for items with the following stocking types:

  • B: Bulk floor stock

  • G: Project manufactured item

    A project-specific manufactured item used by the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Engineer to Order system.

  • H: Project purchase item

    A project-specific purchased item used by the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Engineer to Order system.

  • R: Process

The system does not support production number control for matrix and style items.

After you define items in the Item Master program (P4101), you can further define items at the branch/plant level using the Item Branch program (P41026). The system enables you to define an item as production number controlled at the branch/plant level.

Note: The production controlled setting at the item branch/plant level overrides the setting at the item master level. Material requirements planning (MRP) logic looks at the setting in the item branch record.

An item can have an associated production number only if the Production Number Controlled option is set for that item.

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management system does not support reclassification of items with related production numbers. If you reclassify an item that is production controlled, then the item does not retain the production number.

The system supports electronic data interchange (EDI) for the creation of an item that is production number controlled.