You define all your standard item data in the usual way using Item Master Maintenance (1.4.1). However, because additional item attributes must be specified to enable the system to perform its put-away, storage, and picking functions, the system provides extra item maintenance functions that enable you to enter the required information.

For more information on Item Master Maintenance fields, see QAD Master Data User Guide.

The information that the system requires relates to the storage of items in individual warehouses. You enter this information for items using Item-Warehouse Maintenance (4.4.11). Much of this information might be the same for other warehouses in the same site, so an additional program is provided: Item-Site Maintenance (4.4.9). This program lets you enter much of the item-warehouse data in the form of default values used when you enter the details for a warehouse in that site. Similarly, much of the item-site data might be the same for other sites. You can use another additional program—Item Maintenance (4.4.7)—to enter item-site data that defaults to each site.

To simplify the procedure, you can use Multi-Level Item Maintenance (4.4.5), which combines the three item functions into one program. Because this program encompasses functions from the other three programs and therefore, can be the only program you use to add warehousing data to item data, this section discusses it first.