The Material Management Parameters section is used to record certain characteristics and defaults of material transactions, and control methods to be applied. The option is located in the Definitions menu of the Administration Section. The Material Management Parameters window contains the following defaults, parameters and functions:
DEFAULTS | The defaults that will be used in material cards and transactions. The determined defaults here are transferred to cards and material slips which can be changed according to material and material transactions' characteristics. |
Usage Point | The default value of the application sections where the material and material class will be used. Material and material class definitions can be used in transactions in the Material Management, Purchasing and Sales and Distribution sections. All departments are selected as default in the LOGO application. Sections where the definition will not be used can be removed from the list by clicking on delete button. The default value specified here is automatically transferred into materials and material classes. |
Tool | This parameter is used to specify whether or not a material will be used as a tool in inspection transactions. The selection made here is transferred as default to the materials and material classes. |
Lot / Serial Tracking Method | This parameter is used to specify the backward tracking method to be applied when the Serial / Lot tracking system is used. The selection made here is transferred as default into materials. The tracking method parameter has four options:
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Divisible Lot Size | The default value of Lot sizes. This filter contains Yes and No options. When "No" selected, used lot numbers cannot be applied to any other transaction even if the transaction quantity is low. |
Location Tracking | The default value indicating whether or not location tracking will be performed. This filter contains "Will not be done" and "Will be done" options. |
Shelf Life (Day) | The default shelf life of the material. The data is entered in days. |
Unit Set | The parameter is used to specify the unit set that will be transferred as default into materials. |
Unit – Usage Point | The Usage Point default of Unit Sets. There are three options:
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Unit - Divisible | The default value of unit usage type. This filter contains Yes and No options. When "Yes" is selected, units can be divided. For example, 0.5 kg can be entered instead of 1 kg. |
Unit - Usage Criteria | The usage condition default of user defined units. The Usage Criteria field consists of two options:
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Minimum Inventory Level Control | In the LOGO application, the material quantity entered into the slip line is compared to the minimum inventory level specified per warehouse when the material is recorded. This parameter is used to specify the control method to be applied when the minimum inventory level is reached. This parameter line has three options:
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Maximum Inventory Level Control | In the LOGO application, the material quantity entered into the slip line is compared to the maximum inventory level specified per warehouse when the material is recorded. This parameter is used to specify the control method to be applied when the maximum inventory level is exceeded. This parameter line has three options:
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Negative Inventory Level Control | Certain companies have negative inventories due to their conditions. This parameter is used to specify the negative inventory level control method. This parameter line has three options:
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Safety Inventory Level Control | This parameter is used to specify the safety inventory level control method. This parameter line has three options:
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Input Control | The warehouse input control default of the material. This parameter line has three options:
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Output Control | The warehouse output control default of the material. This parameter line has three options:
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ABC Code | The default ABC code to be used in ABC analysis. The value entered on this field is transferred into the warehouse parameters option located in the right mouse button menu of the material as default. |
Lot Determination Method For Usages / Scraps | The default Lot definition method for materials used in Usage and Scrap Slips generated automatically depending on production orders. This field consists of two options:
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Partial Quantity From Input Production | The default value of lot sizes generated automatically in inputs from production. This parameter contains the following options:
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Automatic Material Withdrawal | This parameter line is used to specify the material withdrawal method if the production control system is used. In this way, the default value of the slips related to materials used in operations is specified on this field. The usages and scrap slips are generated depending on the selection made on this field. All slips in connection with the production order are generated by the application when the production order is released, according to the automatic material withdrawal information. The automatic material withdrawal parameter contains the following options:
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Planning Method | Indicates the planning method default applied for the material when the planning section is used. The selection made on this field is transferred into the planning method field of the plant parameters option located in the right mouse button menu of the material as default. The planning method parameter line contains the following options:
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AR/AP – In Case of Inspection not Held | The default value indicating the control method applied to inspection transactions of the AR/AP. This field has three options:
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Transactions to Apply Campaign Rules | The parameter used to specify the transactions to which automatic campaigns will be applied if the campaign feature is used. The field contains five options:
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Status | The parameter is used to specify the material card status that will be transferred as default into materials. The field contains Active and Passive options. |
Material Slip Status (Warehouse Slips) | It is default value of material warehouse slip record status. It has two options including Actual and Proposal. When you select Proposal option, warehouse slip is saved in "Proposal" status, and slip amount does not affect warehouse totals and costs. Slips recorded in "Proposal" status can not be posted to G/L. |
Do Not Change Mixed Case Contents | In mixed case type material records, it is used to determine the default value of "Do Not Change Mixed Case Contents" field. Contains "Yes" and "No" options. When "Yes" is selected, relevant field will be checked as default in mixed case type material record; can be changed if necessary. |
PARAMETERS |
Lot/Serial Numbers | This parameter is used to specify whether or not Lot / Serial numbers will be defined during transactions. This parameter consists of two options:
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Material Costing Method | The calculation method for material cost is specified on this field, and the cost analysis reports are generated according to the specified cost method. This parameter contains the following options:
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Limit Stock Cost Method Usage | In slips and invoices' unit price fields when cost method is selected that company do not use because retrospective costs change users have difficulty in calculations. The cost type that company uses is determined with Stock Cost Type parameter. | ||||||
Consider Inputs First For Daily Transactions | When costing system is run, the inventories can be decreased under negative level. So it is important to consider input transactions first. When you approve this parameter line, during the costing operation, the inputs are considered first. | ||||||
Material Slips Will Affect Monthly Totals | Used to determine whether the material slips will affect monthly totals at material purchase/sales totals and status graphic reports. If "Yes" is selected, material slips are also added to general totals. If not, material slips do not affect the totals. | ||||||
Update Reporting Currency Rate When Date Changes | This parameter is used to specify whether or not the reporting currency rate will be changed when the slip date changes. The parameter contains the following options:
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Division/Plant/Warehouse Consistency Control | This parameter is used to specify whether or not division, warehouse and plant control will be performed during transactions. This filter contains Yes and No options. | ||||||
Automatic Slip Printing | The parameter is used to specify the printing method for the slip. This filter contains Yes and No options. | ||||||
Automatic Barcode Printing | It is barcode label printing default. Contains "Yes" and "No" options. In the event of approving this parameter line, label printings are done automatically. | ||||||
Material Slip Lines | This parameter is used to specify the printing method if the slip or invoice contains multiple lines for the same material. This parameter contains the following options:
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Sorting Material Slip Lines | This parameter is used to specify the sorting method for the lines if the slip lines contain transactions for different materials. This parameter contains the following options:
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Material Class Detail Lines | This parameter line is used to specify whether or not the detail lines of material classes will be printed along with material slips. This field consists of two options:
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Serial/Lot/Location Tracking Quantity Control on Slips | This parameter is used to specify the control method to be applied when quantities are not specified in the Serial / Lot / Location information of materials tracked in slips or invoices. This field has three options:
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Automatic Serial/Lot Transactions Must Be Generated for Output Transactions | This parameter is used to generate automatic output transactions for materials tracked by lot/serial during output transactions. This parameter is used in usage, scrap and warehouse transactions in the material management section, and in dispatches and invoices in the sales and distribution section. This filter contains Yes and No options.When "Yes" is selected, serial/lot transactions are automatically generated with the main unit specified on the line when data is entered into the quantity column of the slip line. Serial/lot output transactions are regenerated when units are changed. | ||||||
Force Update of Serial/Lot/Location Quantities When Required | If the serial/lot/location input window is required to be opened automatically in quantity changes, "Yes" should be selected on this parameter line. | ||||||
Assignment Type of Price Indices | The parameter used in price index assignment transactions in material input transactions. This parameter line contains the following options:
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Inflation Correction Date | Indicates the correction date to be processed in costing transactions performed outside the costing service if Inflation Accounting is used. | ||||||
Material Class Detail Repetition | This parameter allows detail materials to be used in multiple lines in material class (general) type lines of bills of materials and production orders. This filter contains Yes and No options.When "Yes" is selected, the same material can be selected in multiple lines in detail material input transactions of Bills of Materials and Production Orders.When "No" is selected, materials can be selected only on one line. The application displays a warning message indicating that the same material was already selected. | ||||||
Changing Slip Lines Warehouse Info | The parameter that allows warehouse information to be entered from the lines. "Yes" must be selected on this parameter line if multiple source and target Warehouses exist in one slip. | ||||||
Inventory Level Controls | The parameter used to specify the default value of inventory level control. The Level Control parameter contains the following options:
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Material Hierarchy Code Assignment Method | This parameter is used to specify the Hierarchy Code Assignment method to be applied to materials. The parameter has three options:
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Generic Lot Numbers on Material Input Slips | This parameter is used to provide generating lot numbers automatically for the slip general for the materials tracked by lot system, when they are selected in input slips. This line contains Yes and No options. | ||||||
Usages / Scraps SFG Cost Assignment | Used to determine how the SFG costs will be assigned to Usage / Scrap slips that are generated at the end of the production. Contains the following options:
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Assign G/L Codes on Empty Lines for Material Slips | Used to assign G/L codes for the empty lines in material slips. The parameter contains Yes or No options. | ||||||
Show Insp. Criteria on Material Slips Printing (Input) | In case of using inspection criteria feature, the parameter is used to print inspection criteria information too when printing material input slips. Consists Yes or No options. | ||||||
Show Insp. Criteria on Material Slips Printing (Output) | In case of using inspection criteria feature, the parameter is used to print inspection criteria information too when printing material output slips. Consists Yes or No options. | ||||||
Applied Campaigns Will Be Listed For These Transactions | The parameter is used to list the campaigns that applied to transactions by "Apply Campaign" or by automatic campaign application feature, when saving a sales or purchasing transaction.
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Copy Price Record When Copying Material (Class) | Used to determine whether or not the price card defined for the material will be copied also when copying material (class) card. | ||||||
Copy Variant Code Template Definitions When Copying Configurable Material | Used to determine whether or not the variant code template definitions will be copied also when configurable materials. | ||||||
Child Material (and Classes) In Material (Class) Transfer | Used to determine whether or not child materials (classes) will be updated in material (class) transfers.
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Serial/Lot Numbers will be Deleted when Deleting the Slip | This parameter provides opportunity to reuse the lot/serial numbers, which have been used in material input slips, after deleting the slip in the event of using lot/serial tracking system in program. | ||||||
Claimant Stock Status Will Be Tracked | Used to display claimant stock status at Materials Browser. Contains Yes and No options. When this parameter line is approved, Claimant Stocks column is included in Materials Browser columns and stock status can be tracked. | ||||||
Unit Conversion Will Always Be Shown in These Forms | The parameter that is used to provide displaying unit conversion window constantly on material lines which processed over more than one unit when entering slip/invoices and to provide listing unit conversion data according to selected unit in first line. | ||||||
Semi Finished Goods in Quick Production (Production) | Used to determine production type default of semi finished goods.
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Child Materials in Quick Production (Parting) | It is dafault to be valid for child materials that are used at parting transactions of quick production. | ||||||
Input/Output Control During Date Changes | This default is method of control performed by the application when material slip date is changed in case material used in the relevant slip is processed in the following days. It consists of the following options:
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Warehouse Level Controls | The method of warehouse level controls (minimum, maximum, safety, negative) that will be performed for the materials are determined in this parameter line. It consists of the following options.
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Reuse Assigned Serial/Lot Transactions | This parameter line is used to determine whether assigned serial or lot numbers that are used in slips and invoices can be re-used or not. Contains Yes and No options. When "Yes" is selected, assigned serial or lot numbers to material transactions can be re-used. | ||||||
AR/AP Will Be Required For Price Cards in Material Slips | This parameter line is used to determine whether purchase / sales price cards of which AR/AP is specified will be listed in unit price field of the material slips. If you want to list price cards in unit price field of the material slips even if their AR/AP is specified, "Yes" option must be selected. If "No" option is selected, price cards of which AR/AP is not specified will not be listed in unit price field of the material slips. | ||||||
Transfer Price From The Relevant Card When Unit Is Changed in Slip Lines | This parameter line is used to determine whether the price defined for the relevant unit is transferred automatically to the unit price field when the unit of the selected material is changed in slip and invoice lines. It has two options: Yes and No. If "Yes" option is selected, the unit price information defined in the price card will be transferred to the unit price field automatically when the material unit is changed in the slip line, regardless of the price defined for the previous unit. If "No" is selected, price will be calculated over the unit selected first. | ||||||
Copy Plant and Warehouse Parameters While Copying Material Cards | This parameter line has two options: Yes and No. If it is required to apply the same plant and warehouse parameter values defined for the relevant materials previously on the new material card while copying the material card, this parameter must be approved by selecting Yes option. |