Enter Item Information

Explanation

Use this activity to enter general information about a project deliverable item.

Prerequisites

A project deliverable item should exist.

System Effects

The values entered in these fields are primarily for easy identification and are optional. They do not have any system effects.

Item Type - Can have the value Material, Non Material or Attribute. Items defined as Material are considered as material requirements and requires a part number to be defined. These items are shown in Project Deliverables Navigator/Materials/Material Requirements tab and are included during the creation of the material plan. Items defined as Non Material and Attribute are not considered as material requirements, and are excluded during the creation of material plan. A material plan is generated like this: Generate Material Plan. Items defined as Attribute are attribute values in a navigation model. The value Attribute can not be manually set. It's automatically set as Attribute for attribute values. A navigation model with attribute values is created like this: Create Navigation Model.

Window

Project Deliverables Navigator

Related Window Descriptions

Project Deliverables Navigator/General
Project Deliverables Navigator/Components
Project Deliverables Navigator/Defaults

Procedure

Enter general information in the Project Deliverables Navigator/General tab or Project Deliverables Navigator/Components tab:

  1. Open the Project Deliverables Navigator window and populate it with values.
  2. Click the Components tab.
  3. Enter information for Item Description, Location and Responsible Person.
  4. Set Item Type to Material or Non-Material.
  5. In Project Deliverables Navigator/Components tab, enter a quantity in Quantity per Assembly field.
  6. Enter an Unit of Measure or select it from List of Values.
  7. Save the changes.

Enter default values in Project Deliverables Navigator/Defaults tab:

  1. Click the Defaults tab.
  2. Enter Sub Project ID or select from List of Values.
  3. Enter Activity ID or Activity Sequence. Both values, can also be selected from List of Values.
  4. Optionally, enter an Override Default Site or select from List of Values.