Inventory

What is Item Master Organization?

• All items used by an enterprise are defined in one organization. To differentiate this from other organizations, we call it an Item Master organization. 
• Other organizations (child organizations) refer to the Item Master for item definition. 
• After you define an item in the Item Master, you can assign it to any number of other organizations.
• There is no functional or technical difference between the Item Master organization and other organizations. However, for simplicity, Oracle recommends that you limit the Item Master to just an item definition organization.
• Oracle also recommends that you do not define multiple item masters. This can make item definition and maintenance confusing. In addition, multiple item masters are distinct entities, with no relationship to each other. You cannot associate items in one item master organization with another item master organization. You cannot copy items across item master organizations.

What are Item Status Controlled Attributes?

• Status control describes whether certain status attributes have default values that appear when you assign a status code to an item
• Following are the item attributes than can be controlled by item status
• BOM Allowed
• Build in WIP
• Customer Orders Enabled
• Internal Orders Enabled
• Invoice Enabled
• Transactable
• Purchasable
• Stockable
• Recipe Enabled
• Process Execution Enabled

Navigation to define/view item status: Inventory > Setup > Items > Status Codes

Can we pick release non-reservable items?

Oracle Inventory supports picking for non-reservable items. Non-reservable items are often used when on-hand quantities are not closely tracked and when inventory is often driven negative during shipment confirmation. When a line for a non-reservable item is pick released, the system does not require pick confirm or attempt to generate allocations for the material. Instead, the line status is immediately changed to Released and the delivery line becomes eligible for shipment confirmation. The subinventory and locator on the delivery line become the subinventory and locator from which the ship confirmation transaction issues the inventory (this is taken from the Shipping Item Transaction Default for that item).

If insufficient quantity is available in that location, and negative quantities are enabled for that organization, then the shipment confirmation will drive inventory negative.

Negative quantities are permitted if the Allow Negative Balance check box is selected for

the organization when picking and shipping the following:

• a non-reservable item

• a reservable item that resides in a non-reservable subinventory

What is the difference between Customer Ordered and Customer Orders Enabled flags?

If we don't want to allow customer orders yet but add items to price lists in order management, then we need to set Customer Ordered to Y and Customer Orders Enabled to N. When we are ready to allow customer orders then we can turn on the Customer Orders Enabled flag.