Background: Item Status Codes
Use the Item Status Codes (TISM) program to define item status codes that determine whether an item can be sold, purchased, manufactured or have its inventory adjusted. See Road Map for work flow.
This topic has these subtopics:
Statuses
Assign Status Codes
Planning
Cost Rollup
Statuses
The status code is two alphanumeric characters. The system reserves the 0 (zero) status for normal, active items. When you create a new item in the Enterprise Item Maintenance (IM) and Branch Item Maintenance (IMB) programs, the Item status field is set to 0.
You can enter descriptions for codes 1 through 9 and create your own two-character codes. For example, you might assign a status to indicate that an item is obsolete or a prototype.
Assign Status Codes
You use the Enterprise Item Maintenance (IM) to assign item status codes to items throughout your enterprise. You can assign a different code in the Branch Item Maintenance (IMB) program to override the enterprise item status.
Item Number Lookups
Item number lookups, BLUI and BLUIQ, check the item status set in the Enterprise Item Maintenance (IM) program, to limit the display to items available for sales, purchase, and manufacturing orders.
You must indicate whether sales orders, purchase orders, manufacturing orders or inventory adjustments are allowed for items with each status. You can allow the entry, disallow the entry, or display a message and let you the operator decide whether to order it or not.
For example, if an operator enters an order for an item with a status of No (not allowed), sales order processing programs display the message [Description] status items cannot be processed through order entry. If the status is Prompt, the program prompts This item has a status of [description]; continue? If the operator clicks Yes, line entry continues.
Note
If sales orders are not allowed by an item's status code, RMAs for the
item can be processed.
Planning
If the item's status indicates No for Allow manufacturing then the item will not be planned.
If the items status indicates that manufacturing orders are not allowed (N selection), planned orders will not be generated. If the option is set for O (Prompt operator) or Y, planned orders are allowed.
Cost Rollup
If a status indicates No for Allow manufacturing you can opt to not roll costs for items with the status. Select Exclude from cost roll? and items with the status, such as obsolete inventory, will be skipped when you run Standard Cost Rollup (MCR). This effectively "freezes" the standard cost at its last rolled cost. If the item is a component of another part, its "frozen" cost is used when the parent's cost is rolled up.