Grade and Potency Preference

Use the Grade and Potency preference to select inventory for a customer that is based on a specific grade or potency range for an item. You can set up base pricing by an item's grade or potency. You could use this preference if a customer requires a grade/potency range that differs from the standard range that you define for an item through item branch/plant information.

Note: Because bulk products cannot be selected by grade or potency or load confirmed by lot, you should use this preference only for packaged products.

The Grade and Potency preference works with the Inventory Commitment preference and the commitment method to determine the availability of products. The preference causes the system to ensure that available quantities are within a customer's specified grade/potency parameters.

In addition, the system uses the value that you enter in the Days Expired Before field of the Grade and Potency preference to determine if the expiration date is within the customer's allowable days. This ensures that the availability of product is the quantity of the grades or potencies that the customer enables and within an expiration date.

You can only use the Grade and Potency preference if either the Potency Control or the Grade Control fields are activated for the item. This is done in the Item Branch program (P41026). You typically use this preference only if a customer requires a grade or potency range that differs from the standard ranges that are set up in the Item/Branch Plant Info form.

You cannot specify both grade and potency for the same item. However, when you create the Grade and Potency preference, the system displays both the Grade and Potency fields. This display occurs regardless of the status of the Potency Control and Grade Control fields setting in the P41026 program.

The system does not check the status of the activation settings in Item Branch when you create a Grade and Potency preference. Therefore, you are not prevented from entering values into the From Grade, Thru Grade, From Potency, or Thru Potency fields. You could also enter data in both fields. In either case, the system does not apply preference information that conflicts with activation settings or data entry rules.