Description: The ELMS Warehouse application was originally designed to support a specific user community with it having its own cataloging processes Subsequently ELMS has added a Materiel Management application and and has provided the Maintenance application with its own catalog capabilities. To streamline ELMS, ELMS combined its cataloging processes into a single set processes that all ELMS applications. It has also added catalog builds using the DLMS 832N cataloging transaction set.
One of the catalog features that is specific to the ELMS Warehouse application is the Security Commodity Type. It is used by the Warehouse application to limit user access within several processes Replenishment, MRO, Pick, Inquiries, etc. It should not be a part of the ELMS enterprise catalog processes. Having it at the catalog level forces organizations to manage their materiel the same what that is not realistic for wholesale and field operations. This SCR is recommending removal of the Security Commodity Type from the ELMS Stock Nbr process and to relocate it to the Warehouse application where it is applicable. It should be managed at the warehouse level enabling wider adoption of an enterprise catalog. Consideration should also be given to making it 'Exclude' rather than 'include' as most users are granted "ALL" or they only have a single Security Commodity Type.
Recommended: 1. Retain Reportable Commodity Type within the Stock Nbr process and remove Security Commodity Type.
2. Provide the capability for users to add/update/delete Reportable Commodity Types wherever the catalog can be managed.
3. Add a new process to the Warehouse application to enable the creation of Inventory Management teams similar to how the MM application creates Item Manager teams
4. Relink the processes that use the Security Commodity Type to use the Inventory Management Team Id.
5. Stock Nbrs that are not associated to an Inventory Management Team will be shown in all teams so they are not hidden.
6. Recommendation is to not require Inventory Management Teams.
Benefits:
- Lets each warehouse organize and restrict its own inventory without affecting other warehouses that share the catalog.
- Removes security commodity type from the security data layer and puts it in control of warehouse personnel to enable them to assign staff easily
- Gives one consistent Commodity Type for categorization and reporting across all modules.
Frequency:
Daily
Users:
All
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