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The purpose of this program is to define the material in the structure. The structure information is displayed in sequence number order. If an item is going to be picked in connection with an operation, the operation number is displayed.
Options
| Text | Select this option to view/work with text. |
| Lower material | Select this option to maintain lower level. This option is only allowed for items with item type 1, 2 or 8. |
| Lower operation | Select this option to maintain lower level operations. This option is only allowed for items with item type 1, 2 or 8. |
| Create purchase | Select this option to create a purchase order or requisition that will be connected to the material line. Note: The acquisition type, on the material structure line detail, must be set to 3 (Purchased). |
| Maint purchase | Select this option to maintain a connected purchase order line or requisition. |
| Cancel purchase | Select this option to delete a connected purchase order line or requisition. |
Note: These options are only displayed in change mode.
Function keys
| Add | Add a new component. |
| Operations | Maintain operations for this level. |
| Previous level | Only used if you are maintaining lower level material. Return to the previous material level. |
| Add detail | Add a component with detailed information. |
Selection fields
- Customer
- Project
- Status
- The code indicates the status of the project/quotation.
- Phase
- Line number
- Item
- The item that is maintained.
- Level
- The current level number within the structure.
- Seq no
- Component item
- Variant
- The component variant. If the incoming component is already stored in different variants, i.e. the incoming bill of material and/or bill of routing differs from the basic structure, this variant will be stated here.
- Quantity
- The quantity in stock unit of the components. This is displayed in up to 3 decimals and is included in the material structure. The quantity field can be both positive and negative, if negative, the material is handled as a by-product in the system.
- Unit
- Displays the stock unit or the structure unit of the item depending on the Reporting unit defined in the MFG control file. See Structure unit handling for more information.
- First op no
- The operation number for which the material is first used. This is used for dividing the material list into different sets of picking lists. If this information is used the item is reserved for production purposes, i.e. for the starting time of this operation instead of the starting time of the manufacturing order.
- Text
- Indicates if text is connected to this material line. If text exists under a material line this information will be copied to manufacturing order at creation.