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The purpose of this routine is to allow you to segment items into specific movability classes according to the number of movements an item has had in a given period of time or the demand quantity an item has had in a given period of time. (Number of movements are defined by how many times an item appears on sales order line.) By classifying items in this manner, you can then define the methods for calculating forecast, EOQ, ROP, and SST according to the movability classification, in the Inventory control code programs.
In addition, you can assign the purchase review criteria for deciding if a line on a purchase suggestion should be reviewed before being converted to a purchase order. (This is done in Work with purchase review control codes).
The items are segmented into the classes defined here when Inventory segmentation is executed. For each item/warehouse combination, a movability class is assigned on the Item file/Inventory management panel.
Options
Selection fields
- Code
- This column lists the existing numeric codes to be used for movability classification.
- Description
- Displays a description of the related code.
- No of movements/Quantity
- Displays the number of movements or the demand quantity for the movability code depending on the definition in the IC control file.
Work with movability codes (INVD02804)
The purpose of this routine is to allow you to segment items into specific movability classes according to the number of movements an item has had in a given period of time or the demand quantity an item has had in a given period of time. (Number of movements are defined by how many times an item appears on sales order line.) By classifying items in this manner, you can then define the methods for calculating forecast, EOQ, ROP, and SST according to the movability classification, in the Inventory control code programs.
In addition, you can assign the purchase review criteria for deciding if a line on a purchase suggestion should be reviewed before being converted to a purchase order. (This is done in Work with purchase review control codes).
The items are segmented into the classes defined here when Inventory segmentation is executed. For each item/warehouse combination, a movability class is assigned on the Item file/Inventory management panel.
Function keys
- Code
- Mandatory entry. Enter a numeric code to be used for this movability classification. Valid movability codes are 1-98. The code 99 is reserved for items with number of movements less than the lowest entered class. When you enter this file, the system checks for the existence of code 99. If none exists, the system automatically creates a record with code 99 and limit value zero.
- Description
- Mandatory entry. Enter a description of the code above.
- No of movements/quantity
- Mandatory entry. Enter the number of movements/quantity for this movability code. For each movability code entry or change, the number of movements/quantity must be less than or equal to the previous entry’s number of movements/quantity, and greater than the following entry’s (if any) movements/quantity. The system checks this.
Code Description Number of movements/Quantity 1 Highest no of movements/quantity >= 50000 2 Second highest >= 45000 3 Third highest >= 30000 99 Lowest >= 0 The limit value you set will be used to assign a movability code to each item/warehouse combination in the Inventory management item file. A movability class is defined for all item/warehouse combinations with a higher number of movements/quantity than the limit value for the class (but lower than the limit value for the next higher movability class).
Note: You decide in the Movability code field within the IC control file whether to base movability segmentation on number of movements or demand quantity.