Define Items
The sixth step is to define the fields for the inventory items you want to store in your warehouses. The items must already exist. In addition to setting up the basic fields for each item, you can specify information that links the storage or picking of an item with a particular site, warehouse, storage location group, supplier, or customer. The sequence is as follows:
1 Use Item Maintenance (4.4.7) to set up generic default values for items. This step is optional.
2 Use Item-Site Maintenance (4.4.9) to set up default values for items that apply to all warehouses at the specified site. This step is optional, and uses the generic default values from Item Maintenance if you defined them.
3 Use Item-Warehouse Maintenance (4.4.11) to set up the actual fields to use for each item in the specified warehouse. This step is mandatory, and uses the site-level default values from Item-Site Maintenance if you have set these up.
4 Use Item-Storage Location Group Maintenance (4.4.1) to specify additional warehousing fields for items related to a specific storage location group. This step is optional.
5 Use Supplier Item Inspection Maintenance (4.4.13) to specify inspection parameters for a supplier-item relationship. This step is optional.
6 Use Customer Item Status Maintenance (4.4.17) to specify particular inventory status codes for particular customers. This step is optional.
Note: An additional option, Multi-Level Item Maintenance (4.4.5), combines the first three steps in a single program, so that you can set up generic defaults, site-level defaults, and item-warehouse data in one continuous process. This option is an alternative to using Item Maintenance (4.4.7), Item-Site Maintenance (4.4.9), and Item-Warehouse Maintenance (4.4.11).