1. Apparel Management Implementation Guide
  2. Understanding Item Management

Understanding Item Management

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management system defines discrete inventory items, which enable you to manipulate inventory throughout the supply chain. The term item refers to all components, raw materials, assemblies, and finished goods that are in inventory, as well as supplies that are purchased but not included in inventory. Before you can work with inventory, you must provide the information about the items that you stock. You can specify information such as item information, sales and purchasing costs, and available quantities by location to help track and process each item through the supply chain.

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system supports style items that are more complex than standard inventory items. Style items may have many attributes, such as size, length, width, and color. To handle these variations easily, you define the variations within the product as different levels of a hierarchy. When you define these levels for a style item, the system creates item numbers for each item variation. Unlike style items, standard JD Edwards EnterpriseOne items do not have multiple levels.

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management system integrates with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system to define and manage style items. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management programs that contain functionality specific to style items are:

  • Item Master (P4101)

  • Style Item Master (PCW51)

  • Item Branch/Plant (P41026)

  • Matrix Grid (PCW03)

  • Size Weight Entry (PCW32)

  • Automatic Splitting by Size Definition (PCW33)

  • Item Level Type (PCW011)

  • Work with Item Structures (PCW01)

  • Composition Entry (PCW44)

  • Additional Style Item Information (PCW45)

You must enter details that correspond to a style item in the Style Item Master program. The style item master information includes:

  • Item number.

  • Item name.

  • Description.

  • General information about the item.

When you create a style item, the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management system stores the style item details in the Item Structure Definition (FCW02), and Item Master (F4101) tables and it stores additional information in the Additional Style Item Information table (FCW61).

The system uses the column position to organize records in the FCW02 table for that level. For example, if the column position of the level Color is 4 as defined in the Item Level Type program (PCW011) and Color is the first level in the JE51 style item structure, then the FCW02 records for JE51 store all the JE51.Colors (for example, JE51.BLUE and JE51.RED) at level number one based on the structure definition from the Work with Item Structures program (PCW01). However, the system stores the colors (for example, blue and red) in the level 4 column based on the column position defined in the Item Level Type program. So, the system stores the color values in the level 4 column in the FCW02 table for any style item structure that uses Color as one of its levels.

This section discusses:

  • Product structure

  • Exception management

  • Item creation process