Item Management
Centrally manage a complete
and accurate item master.
Track an unlimited number of part-level attributes to fully define and centrally manage your items. Items can be organized into user-defined, hierarchical categories that assign common item attributes—improving part reuse and enabling apples-to-apples part comparisons. Item views are easily tailored to expose critical data and prompt users to make required and optional entries.
Use multiple item views to evaluate BOMs and where-used relationships or to manage file attachments, sourcing relationships, compliance requirements and costing details. You can lock information from change or use built-in, common-sense rules to control how, when and who can change information. Authorized users can subscribe to items and will receive notifications any time item information changes.
Item Management Benefits & Details
Benefits
- Control new item introduction and enable part reuse by easily finding and evaluating existing items.
- Ensure item master record integrity and accuracy by reducing errors and information lag time.
- Evaluate item status in the context of change history by enabling complete revision tracking.
Details
- Complete item specifications: Capture and associate all critical part data in a single item.
- Item classification: Organize items into multi-level categories, and extend the item master record with classification-specific attributes.
- Custom attributes: Configure any number of custom attributes to capture the complexity of your part specifications.
- Smart item numbering: Capture unique commodity codes and provide intelligent, automated numbering in a user-defined format.
- File attachments: Attach unlimited files in any format to items, or associate them with a URL / FTP location.
- Where-used: Quickly view immediate and top-level assembly relationships for an item.
- Revision control: Clearly identify working revisions and the effective revision of an item, and lock the specification from unauthorized change.
- Lifecycle stage support: Visually track the status of an item as it moves from concept to design to production.
- Duplication with complete history: Retain a complete history of all item changes and create an exact item duplicate with complete historical context.
- Item subscription: Subscribe to be automatically notified any time an item or its related data is revised.
- Collaborative access: Grant authorized partners and suppliers restricted access to item information and enable them to easily download product information including items, BOMs, and files.
- Import & export: Easily import and export product data in multiple formats (.csv and .pdx) via configurable templates.
Arena Solutions is an active member of IPC 
Benefits
- Control new item introduction and enable part reuse by easily finding and evaluating existing items.
- Ensure item master record integrity and accuracy by reducing errors and information lag time.
- Evaluate item status in the context of change history by enabling complete revision tracking.
Details
- Complete item specifications: Capture and associate all critical part data in a single item.
- Item classification: Organize items into multi-level categories, and extend the item master record with classification-specific attributes.
- Custom attributes: Configure any number of custom attributes to capture the complexity of your part specifications.
- Smart item numbering: Capture unique commodity codes and provide intelligent, automated numbering in a user-defined format.
- File attachments: Attach unlimited files in any format to items, or associate them with a URL / FTP location.
- Where-used: Quickly view immediate and top-level assembly relationships for an item.
- Revision control: Clearly identify working revisions and the effective revision of an item, and lock the specification from unauthorized change.
- Lifecycle stage support: Visually track the status of an item as it moves from concept to design to production.
- Duplication with complete history: Retain a complete history of all item changes and create an exact item duplicate with complete historical context.
- Item subscription: Subscribe to be automatically notified any time an item or its related data is revised.
- Collaborative access: Grant authorized partners and suppliers restricted access to item information and enable them to easily download product information including items, BOMs, and files.
- Import & export: Easily import and export product data in multiple formats (.csv and .pdx) via configurable templates.
Arena Solutions is an active member of IPC