Entering Miscellaneous Product Information

Description

Whether the vendor requires pre-payment of federal excise tax for the product.

Select the check box to require pre-payment for the product; otherwise leave it blank.

Whether the product will always ship directly from the vendor to the customer.

Select the check box if the product is a direct ship item; otherwise leave it blank.

If you define the product as a direct ship item, define the product's direct shipment vendor in the Default Direct Vendor field. You can change a direct shipment vendor on an order if necessary.

Description

For tires, the original tread depth for warranty purposes.

Duty harmonizing code assigned to the product to determine the basis for levying tariffs.

Select from a list of codes set in Duty Harmonizing Code Maintenance.

Country in which an imported product was manufactured.

Note: The duty harmonizing code is automatically updated for the product when the Product Duty Information Update process is run. Those changes are recorded in the Product Maintenance change log. Also, if the Automatically Calculate Duty Charges For Purchase Orders control maintenance record is set to Y, the system calculates the duty and freight amounts for the product when it is added to a purchase order.

Percentage of the product that you want to maintain on hand. If an order writer attempts to sell more than this quantity on a transaction, the system displays a warning.

For example, if you set this field to 50% for the product and you have 10 of the product on hand, the system displays a warning if the order writer attempts to sell 6 or more of the product.

If the order writer overrides the system warning and if the Message Buyer On Inventory Factor Override In SOE control maintenance record is set to Y, the system notifies the purchasing agent that the order writer performed the override.

Note: The entry in this field overrides the Order To Inventory Factor For SOE control maintenance record.

This field is reserved for use with the ERoute companion product.

This field is reserved for use with the ERoute companion product.

Inventory account to use for the product's G/L postings.

Select from a list of G/L inventory override accounts.

Note: Inventory account overrides assigned at the order level take precedence over those set at the product level. Product level overrides take precedence over those at the price line level.

Secondary serial number for the product.

Enter the serial number.

The measurements for the product.

Note: These values are not related to the units of measure defined on the main product record and are used for reference only about the size of the product is. Contact your inventory or warehouse manager to determine units.

The delivery label printing method for this product:

• Item - When this product is entered on a sales order and associated with a delivery location, one delivery label will print for every quantity of this item.

• Delivery Group - When this product is entered on a sales order and associated with a delivery location, one delivery label will print for the entire delivery group with which this product is associated.

Description

Indicates whether to disable the Sales Order Entry duplicate order check parameters for the product as set up in the Duplicate Product Check On Current Order control maintenance record. 

Select the check box to override the parameters; otherwise leave it blank.

Indicates whether to exclude a detail lot item from the sales order availability calculation when one of the following occurs:

• The item's inspection level does not meet the customer's acceptable quality check inspection level.

• The item's quality rank does not meet the customer's acceptable quality rank.

Select the check box to exclude the detail lot item from the calculation; otherwise leave blank.

Note: Settings at the product level override settings in the Exclude Detail Lot Items From Available On-Hand Calculation control record for this item only. If the field is left blank, the system uses the settings in the control maintenance record.

Indicates whether to exclude a detail lot item from the sales order availability calculation when the item is on hold.

Do one of the following:

• Select Check Box - If the detail lot item is on hold, then the system excludes the item from the availability calculation.

• Do No Select Check Box - The system does not check the detail lot item's on hold status when calculating the available quality. If the product is available, the user still cannot commit quantity if the detail lot item is on hold.

Note: Settings at the product level override settings in the Exclude Detail Lot Items From Available On-Hand Calculation control record for this item only. If the field is left blank, the system uses the settings in the control maintenance record.

Indicates whether to exclude this product from EDI 856 Directs Processing. This overrides the setting in the Enable Processing of 856 For Directs control maintenance record which sets at the global level.

By selecting to exclude these products, the system ignores them during the standard automatic matching process for direct orders.

You can also exclude specific trading partners, if needed, using the EDI Add'l 856 Info screen. The Enable Processing of 856 For Directs control maintenance record does not have to be set to Yes to exclude a trading partner.

Select the Exclude from Cross Docking check box exclude a product from cross-docking rules and avoid moving the item to a cross-docking location in your warehouse. Excluding an item from stocking the cross-docking area may be necessary for many reasons; for example, the item's size. This setting overrides any other system rules for cross-docking the product.