About Lot Group reporting points

With the Lot Group reporting point, you can capture metadata for a lot group. The Lot Group reporting point can contain multiple capture conditions. It captures data when its fields have data available and the capture conditions are True.

Elements

A Lot Group reporting point contains the following elements you can configure:

• Capture conditions - The conditions for when to capture Lot Group data.

• Fields - The Lot Group data to capture and the fields in which to store the data.

Where can I add a Lot Group reporting point?

• You can add one or more Lot Group reporting points to a Site or Area folder.

• You can add one or more Lot Group reporting points to a work center that is a lot-tracked work center (Selective, LIFO, or FIFO).

• You can add one or more Lot Group reporting points to a work unit that is a lot-tracked work unit (Selective, LIFO, or FIFO).

Other guidelines

• You can add one or more custom fields to a Lot Group reporting point.

• The Fields folder within a Lot Group reporting point contains standard fields named Lot Group and LocationIdentifier.

  

• When the Lot Group reporting point contains a capture condition, configure the HistoricalFieldExpression property for the LotGroup standard field.

• Each lot group identifier must be unique. The expression that generates identifier values is configured to produce a unique identifier each time. If identifiers are not unique, a business error occurs.

• The standard field definitions for the Lot Group reporting point reside under the Inventory configuration item in the System Configuration folder.

• A Lot Group reporting point does not consume a license.

Related topics

• About work centers

• About lot behavior

• About lot groups