Item manager in Oracle Inventory

Hi all,
My organization Is implementing Oracle E.R.P with Inventory module, and we run into this problem:
In every organization we have several people that are in charge of several Items. We need to assign Items to the certain Item managers so that every Item manager would be able to change only his Item's properties.
As we were instructed we cannot give different rights according to different items.
Did somebody encounter that problem and solve it in some way?
Thanks in advance.

If you have a single inventory organization and one segment for items, i am not sure if
there is any way out,
However, i would not suggest using multiple
segments just for the security purposes as it would create the follwing problems.
I WOULD FIRMLY ADVICE NOT TO USE MORE THAN ONE SEGMENT FOR THE ITEM FOR THE FOLLOWING
REASONS:
1. Increases complexity in transactions, every time the user need to select an item
he has to select three fields for each item.
2. Item categories can be used for creating complex structures for items and then
assigned to items for reporting/ classification purposes
3. System overhead will increase as each time the data is retrieved it has to retrieve
three fields, concatenate and then display on the screen.
The disadvantages list goes on...
"Quote on Unquote"
Never use more than one segment for item unless its "REALLY" a business requirement..
coming back to you problem, you can only
logically control by assigning items to
buyers and planners so that users will query on corresponding fields and access the data
the second option i could think of is to use
logical item categories with employee name as one segment and assign items to corresponding categories after which the users will query on category to select a list
of items which they can update.
madhu.

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