Setting material inquiry options

This activity enables you to set the options that will be considered while computing the material count and the location details.

Select “Set Material Inquiry Options” under the “Stock Maintenance” business component.

The “Set Material Inquiry Options” page appears.

The system displays the following:

Date Format

The format in which the date field is displayed in this page. This format is displayed from the "User Preferences" business component based on the login user ID. In case the format is not defined, the system displays the date format from the "Enterprise Modeling" business component by default.

The system displays the following field in the “External Ownership Stock Status Details” multiline:

Stock Status

The status assigned to specific quantities of the stock, stored in Inventory. The system lists all the “Active” stock statuses other than the internal stock status defined in the “User Defined Stock Status” business component.

Enter the following field:

Yes / No?

Use the drop-down list box and select "Yes", if the stock status must be considered as ‘external ownership’ stock status. Select "No" otherwise.

The system displays “Yes” by default..

Note: The system will consider only those parts for which the stock status is identified as ‘External Ownership, for computing the external ownership part quantity.

The system displays the following field in the “Unserviceable WH Category Details” multiline:

Warehouse Category

The category to which the warehouse belongs. The system lists all the quick codes that are defined for the quick code type “Warehouse Category” in the “Create Quick Codes” activity of the “Storage Administration” business component.

Enter the following field:

Yes / No?

Use the drop-down list box and select “Yes”, if the warehouse category must be considered as 'Unserviceable'. Select “No” otherwise.

The system displays “No” by default.

Note: All the parts of type other than “Component” will be considered as unserviceable, if they belong to a warehouse of the unserviceable category.

Click the “Set Material Inq Options” pushbutton to record the option settings.

The system displays the following fields in the “Record Statistics” group box:

Last Modified By	The name of the user who last modified the options.
Last Modified Date	The date on which the options were last modified.