Defining Customer Items [ID 204840.

1] Modified 06-SEP-2011
PURPOSE ------To provide a quick reference for Inventory Defining Customer Items SCOPE & APPLICATION ------------------For use by anyone setting up Items in the Inventory Oracle Application Defining Customer Items ----------------------Use the Customer Items Summary and Customer Items Detail windows to define and update customer items. You can toggle between these windows with the Summary/Detail option in the Go option on the Toolbar. You can cross reference customer items to your Oracle Inventory items to support processing orders and shipments. To find customer items: 1. Navigate to the Find Customer Items window by selecting Customer Items from the menu: Inventory>Items>Customer Items>Customer Items 2. Enter selection criteria. Note that you can enter a specific Address Category or Address only if you have entered a customer. 3. Select the Find button to open the Customer Items Summary window. To define customer items: 1. Enter the Customer Item number and description. 2. Select one of the existing Customer Names (in the Details window, you can use either Customer Name or Customer Number). 3. Select the Definition Level: Customer, Address Category, or Address. A customer item defined at the Customer level is recognized across all address and address categories for that customer. If you ship an item to multiple customer ship-to sites that have

Type BULLETIN

Status ARCHIVED

been grouped as an address category, you can define the customer item for that address category. You would define a customer item at the address level if you ship the item to only one shipto site for that customer. 4. For the Address Category definition level, enter the address category. 5. For the Customer Address definition level, enter the customer address. 6. In the Commodity alternative region, you can assign the customer item to a Commodity Code. 7. In the Container alternative region, you can enter the default master and detail containers for this customer item as well as the minimum fill percent for the container. 8. In the Model, Departure Planning alternative region, you can reference a customer item as a Model by entering the inventory item number of an existing Model item (the BOM Item Type attribute is set to Model). You can also check Required to indicate that items must be departure planned before they released and Before Build to indicate that ATO items must be departure planned before they are built. 9. In the Demand Tolerances, Active alternative region, you can enter positive and negative tolerance percentages and select or deselect the Active check box. 10. Save your work. To open the Customer Items Details window: o button in the To facilitate information entry, you can select the Open Customer Items Summary window to open the Customer Items Details window, where you can enter any of the information in the Customer Items Summary window. To activate or deactivate customer items: o Items Detail window or in the Demand Tolerances Active alternative region in the Customer Items Summary window. To set defaults: o Choose the Set Defaults button to open the Customer Item Select or deselect the Active checkbox in the Customer

Defaults window. To enter additional customer item information for Oracle Automotive: o Customer Items window. To define a customer item cross reference: o Choose the Cross Reference button. Select the Automotive button to open the Automotive

Additional Information: The profile is used to determine whether the customer item can be updated. RELATED DOCUMENTS ----------------Oracle Inventory User's Guide - Item Setup Taken from Oracle Inventory On-line Help Related

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