Creation of New Item Category

Question

Hi All
Can anyone give an example of when a new item category creation will be required in practical ?
Anil

Answer 1

Hi Anil,
It is always recommended to use standard item categories. Create new item categories if the functionality you require cannot be covered by the standard item categories. Following are the attributes and functions of a BOM  item category.                                                                               
o   Is a material number required?                                                                               
o   Is the item to be used in inventory management on a quantity basis
o   Is the item a text item only, with no other functionality?                                                                               
o   Is the item to be used as a variable-size item with the option of entering individual sizes ?                                                                               
o   Is the item a document item?                                     
     The document item category allows you to enter a document which you created using the document management system.                                                                               
o   Is the item a class item?                                        
     For configurable material BOMs, you can enter a class in which materials or documents are classified. When you assign characteristic values during BOM configuration, the class node is replaced by the object with the required characteristic values. In this way, the workload involved in maintaining BOMs with many variants is reduced, because you no longer have to enter all items individually and assign selection conditions to them.                                                                               
o   Are sub-items supported?                                                                               
o   Is the item a plant maintenance structure elment?               
     If the item is a PM structure element, the system does not check 
If the requirement is to obtain the functionality by shuffling the above combinations, only than go ahead. 99 out of 100 times, the standard categories are suffiecient.
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Keerthi