To define a default category set:When you install Oracle Inventory, you must assign a default category set to each of the following functional areas: Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management, Costing, Engineering, and Planning. Product Line Accounting is seeded with the Inventory category set. Inventory makes the default category set mandatory for all items defined for use by a functional area. If your item is enabled for a particular functional area you cannot delete the item's corresponding default category set assignment. Default category sets are required so that each functional area has at least one category set that contains all items in that functional area.
You can enable an item for each functional area by using that functional area's item defining attribute. An item defining attribute identifies the nature of an item. For example, what designates an item as an "engineering item" is the attribute Engineering Item. If a functional area's item defining attribute is controlled at the Organization level, then that functional area may only have an Organization level default category set.
You set the item defining attribute when you define the item. The following table presents item defining attributes:
| Functional Area | Item Defining Attribute | Enabling Value |
|---|---|---|
| Inventory | Inventory Item | Yes |
| Purchasing | Purchased | Yes |
| Purchasing | Internal Ordered Item | Yes |
| Master Scheduling/ MRP | MRP Planning Method | MRP Planning, MPS Planning |
| Cost Management | Costing Enabled | Yes |
| Engineering | Engineering Item | Yes |
| Order Management | Customer Ordered Item | Yes |
| Service | Support Service, or | Yes |
| Service | Serviceable Product | Yes |
| Product Line Accounting | none | n/a |
When you enable an item for a certain functional area, Oracle Inventory automatically assigns the item to the default category set of that functional area and the default category of that set. For example, if you set Inventory Item to Yes, then Inventory automatically assigns the item to the Inventory functional area's default category set and default category.
You may change a functional area's default category set under certain conditions. You should ensure that every item within the functional area belongs to the new default category set (which replaces the existing default category set). If the item defining attribute of the functional area is controlled at the Organization level then the new default category set should also be controlled at the Organization level.
You must define at least one category set. See: Defining Category Sets.
To define a default category set:Navigate to the Default Category Sets window.
Select the category set to use as the default for the functional area.
Oracle Inventory also makes this category set mandatory for all items defined for use by the functional area.
You should not change the Purchasing category set after you have created requisition or purchase order lines using the categories.
Note: Product Line Accounting is enabled when you assign a default category set.
Note: The category set Product, is a seeded category set. It is the default category set for the Product Reporting functional area. The system automatically assigns this category to customer ordered or internal ordered items.
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