Understanding Style Item Creation
Based on customer demands, you may need to have a wide variety of products. Also, a product may have many variations. For example, the product shirt can have many types of styles, colors, and sizes. To manage these variations for each product, you need to define the product details in various levels of a hierarchy by using the Style Item Master program (PCW51).
You set the processing options for the Style Item Master program to specify how the system creates all of the child style items from these variations. Based on the processing option settings of the Style Item Master program, the system creates child style items using one of the following methods:
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Automatically
The system automatically creates all of the child style items after you specify the item details and item structure information for the style item root level 0. The automatic creation of child style items occurs when you exit from the style item root level creation process.
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On demand
You create the child style items at the end of the item creation process. For this, after you specify the item details and item structure information for the style item root level 0, you need to click the Create Child Items button on the Item Structure Definition form.
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In batch
You run the Create and Process Child Style Items program (RCW01) to create the child style items after you specify the item details and item structure information for the style item root level 0.
In the multi-level structure of a style item, the first level (style item root level 0) of an item hierarchy consists of basic details about the item. In addition to the standard JD Edwards EnterpriseOne item details, you need to specify the following details for a style item at style item root level 0:
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Item structure.
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The size matrix grid used by the style item.
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Additional information, such as additional category codes, item model number, item number main material, and cleaning codes.
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Composition details.
The composition details are important for a style item. You can specify the percentage of each material that is used in the style item.
The basic attributes of the item are inherited from the higher level (parent) to the lower level (child). For every style item that you create, the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system creates a corresponding record in the Item Structure Definition (FCW02) and Item Master (F4101) tables. The system stores the additional data that you specify for an item in the Additional Style Item Information table (FCW61).
You also can create style items using the Style Items By Collection (PCW54) program.
See Creating Collections.
The Style Item Master program acts as the entry point, and the Item Structure Definition (PCW02) program acts as the exit point in the style item creation. Based on the processing options set for the Item Master (P4101) program, the forms you use to specify the general attributes of a style item root level 0 appear automatically during item creation.
You can create a style item with the Style Item Master program and view and edit the multi-level structure of it using the Item Structure Definition program. According to item level types, which you define in the structure, details of each level appear as either a list or a grid on the Item Structure Definition form. If the processing option of the Style Item Master program is set for the manual creation of child level item definitions, then you can:
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Configure each level of variations that are applicable for the style item hierarchy. On the Item Structure Definition form, you select the particular level that you need to configure in the item hierarchy and then select Configure Level from the Row menu.
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Create end level item definitions after configuring each level of the item hierarchy. On the Item Structure Definition form, click Create Child Items.
You can delete the style item records by setting up the Delete Complete Level processing option on the Delete Process tab of Style Item Master program. The system logs the details of the style items that cannot be deleted in the Style Item Master Purge Log table (FCW88). The FCW88 table is a temporary work file. The system clears this file subsequently after completing the delete process. Based on the Detail Log Report processing option set on the Delete Process tab of the Style Item Master program, the system calls the Style Item Master Purge Log report (RCW36) to print the style items that cannot be deleted. Also, you can use the Style Item Master Purge report (RCW32) to delete the style item records and call the Style Item Master Purge Log report (RCW36) to print the style items that cannot be deleted. You can also manually run these purge reports.