| # Items - General (tcibd0501m000) Item type In the Item Data session, you can define an item’s item type. The item type is Items Manufactured or Items Purchased. Enterprise Planning uses the item type together with the default source in plan item data to determine the type of order to be generated during the order generation. You can make the item type date-dependent by using the Date-Effective Item Data (tcibd0510m000) session. In this way, you can specify that the item is purchased in one period, but manufactured in another period. To start the Date-Effective Item Data (tcibd0510m000) session, click the button next to the Item Type field. The other fields in the Items - General (tcibd0501m000) session are explained in the following table.
General item properties
Field | Description
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(Actual) Item Type (display-only field) | If date-effective item data has been defined, this fields shows the currently effective item type.
Item Group | LN uses this field to retrieve the item defaults if you generate an item.
Derived-from Item (display-only field, Engineering tab) | Links a customized item to the related standard item or generic item.
Unit Effective End Item (Unit Effectivity tab) | If this check box is selected, sales orders for this item can specify an effectivity unit. An effectivity unit denotes a small configuration of the item. For more information, refer to the section on effectivity units.
Unit Effective Supply | If this check box is selected, effectivity units are taken into account for the supply order.
Effectivity Units are Interchangeable | If this check box is selected, demand for unit 5 can be supplied by unit 6. All units of an item can be interchanged, even if they have different configurations. If this check box is cleared, interchangeability can be specified on a more detailed level (between ranges of units) as well as at a global level (units are always interchangeable).
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