AVEVA™ Production Management

Overview of Inventory

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Inventory enables you to track your work-in-progress materials and to know the real cost of your inventory.

About Inventory	An overview topic of Inventory.
Contributors	You can track contribution details along with lot movements through the production facility. You will need to set up a Contributor Set.
Genealogy	Genealogy extracts the relationships between lots so that you can determine the origin or destination of particular lots.
Lot behavior	The lot behavior of a piece of equipment determines whether the equipment tracks lots and how it selects lots to move in and out of the piece of equipment.

Configure project-wide settings for Inventory on the Inventory configuration item.

Inventory configuration item	Set up the Inventory configuration item. You may also need to defined Advanced permissions.
Standard fields	Configure the standard fields for the Inventory module.
Calculated Inventory fields	Configure these calculation fields to perform a calculation on Inventory quantity to convert it to a different quantity.
Contributor Set	Define the Contributor Set. These could be suppliers or owners of source materials to track throughout the process.

In addition to basic plant infrastructure, there are Inventory elements to configure that will record Inventory data.

Work centers	Represents locations where Inventory information is required, and they represent process types. They also define how material lots behave when they enter or leave a work center.
Materials	Represent the raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods that the plant uses, produces, and stores.
Lot generators	Defines how AVEVA™ Production Management generates a lot identifier.
Material conversions	Defines how AVEVA™ Production Management converts a quantity of source material to a quantity of destination material when their units of measurement differ.
Material movements	Represents the movement of materials to, between, and from work centers.
Material Quality reporting points	Collects material quality data to assist in determining Calculated Inventory.
Lot reporting points	Captures data based on the creation of lots.

Inventory data reprocessing	Learn how operators can modify and reprocess Inventory data.
Inventory data finalization	Understand what finalization means.