This activity is used to enter storage requirements for an inventory part or the part catalog record. There are two tabs in which you can enter storage requirements. By entering storage requirements on the part catalog, the values entered will be shared for the part across all sites where it is used. If site specific storage requirements are needed, they should be entered on the inventory part. Values entered on the inventory part will override any value inherited from the part catalog record. Note that it is also possible to enter storage requirements for a group of parts. Values entered on capacity groups would first be inherited to part catalog records and then to inventory parts. Use setup on capacity groups or part catalog to avoid unnecessary setup per inventory part when similar values are used. Note that exceptions to inherited values from the level above can always be entered on the lower levels. So any value entered on the inventory part will override values inherited from the part catalog or capacity group.
In the Capacity and Condition Requirements tab, you can enter information about the requirements for length, width, depth, temperature and humidity range as well as the weight and volume that should be considered when a part is stored on an inventory location.
In the Capability Requirements tab, you can enter requirements for user-defined capabilities that an inventory location where this part is stored must be able to handle. This could be, for example, that a part is explosive and hence has a storage requirement for explosive material.
Note that when no value is entered, it is interpreted that the part has an unlimited requirement for that capacity or condition and thus will require a location that has unlimited capacity or condition. This will also mean that parts not having defined requirements will not unnecessarily use locations defined as being capable to handle certain capacities, conditions or capabilities.
Values for capacity, conditions or capabilities can be inherited either from the part catalog record or specific groupings for storage requirements. There are separate storage requirement groups for capacities, conditions and capabilities and these groups are connected to a part in the part catalog.
The
volume requirement for a part is defined by stating how many parts can be
stored in a defined inventory location. This is then generalized to the
quantity per volume UoM that is used for stating the dimensions of the
inventory location.
So for an inventory location, the volume capacity is
either calculated as width x height x depth of the location, or is manually
entered. Then the volume requirement for a part is defined by stating how
many parts can be stored in a location with that volume.
Also note that
when defining the storage volume requirement for a part or group of parts
and that part or group of parts does not have dimensions defined (width,
height and depth requirement are set to NULL), these NULL values will be set
to 0 after returning from the dialog box. In general, a NULL value indicates
an unlimited value (length unknown) and 0 indicates that the dimension in
question is not of importance (the part will always fit). If a dimension is
given, the value is kept as it is. The reason for this behavior is that the
volume per location is given by its dimensions which will mean that a
location with volume defined is not able to store parts with a storage
requirement for dimensions set to NULL.
A storage capability must exist.
The storage requirements entered will be taken into consideration when looking for an inventory location of specific capacities and conditions.