Product Lines
Product lines are used to group/classify items or products with similar characteristics.
• Usually the grouping is by similarities of manufacture, use, application, cost analysis, or revenue analysis
• QAD Enterprise Applications uses product lines for accounting, planning and reporting purposes
• You must define at least one product line
• Each item is assigned to a product line
Important: Before you define your product lines, you need to determine the criteria your company wants to use for grouping the items.
For example, you could group items by production process. Then, in the plastics industry, you could have a product line for blow molded items and another product line for injection molded items.
Product lines
• Are associated with specific GL accounts for inventory, sales, and purchasing
• Can also link items to sub-accounts and cost centers
• Identify families of products that can be planned in aggregate using Product Line Planning
• All of the planning programs (product line planning, resource planning, MRP, MPS) can be run by product line
• Are used for selecting and reporting inventory, planning, and sales history reports
When planning product lines, you need to consider:
• Common components that go into subassemblies
• All items required for a finished product
• Level of detail required in general ledger
