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Infor LN & Baan Tip: What conditions must exist before changing an item's inventory unit?

Is there a procedure for changing an item’s inventory unit? What conditions must exist before it can be done?

Once inventory transactions (receipts or issues) have occurred for an item, the inventory unit cannot be changed. If only orders have been placed against the item (sales or purchase), the inventory unit can be changed if these orders are removed and the economic stock of the item is zero.

The reason that the inventory unit cannot be changed once transactions have been made is due to how transactions are recorded. The inventory transactions are recorded in units. These units are the inventory unit of the item. The inventory unit is not held in this table, however. The inventory unit is held on the item data. For example, if 5 pieces (pcs) of an item are issued and the inventory unit is later changed to pounds (lbs), there will be a mismatch in the inventory history of the item. In the past, the item was issued as pcs, and now the item master inventory unit is lbs. As the inventory unit is not date effective, the inventory has then been issued in two different units (pcs and lbs), but there is no method to recognize this difference.

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This enhancement allows users to update Reason Code Maintenance, INV140D1, for Transaction Effects that they are not authorized to in any other programs. A new system parameter was added to Inventory Parameters, INV820D. The enhancement allows users who do not actually perform transactions in Infor LX to maintain the reason codes for the transactions.

This enhancement provides clients the ability to store the opening/ending on hand balance for each Inventory period at the Item (IIM), Warehouse/Item (IWI) and Lot/Location (ILI) levels. Infor LX clients can back date inventory transactions into the immediate previously closed period, and thus update what was saved as the opening/ending balance throughout the current open period. 

Tracking the opening/ending/period balance for each inventory period can give users insights into the levels of inventory for each item, item/warehouse and item/warehouse/lot/location combination.

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Instead of sharing tables through logical linking, you can replicate table content between companies. This approach allows certain non-key attributes of a record to vary by company. For example, if you replicate bills of materials rather than sharing them, each company can associate a different warehouse with the same bill of material. This way, the bills of materials are consistent across companies, while the warehouses can differ.

Replication also enables selective availability of records in other companies. For instance, when replicating items, you might limit which items are available in a sales company based on their item group, only including end items. You can further refine replication to specific subsets, such as particular item groups.

Keep in mind that replication requires any referenced tables to be either replicated or shared as well.

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