Items

The Items table contains all the items that you want to manage in your supply chain.

Key Fields

Field

Type

Description

name

non-empty string

Unique name of the item.

description

string

Free format description.

cost

number

Cost or price of the item.

owner

item name

Hierarchical parent of the item.

Item hierarchy

Hint

Setting up a good item hierarchy is important if you are interested in the demand forecasting functionality. Otherwise, you can skip modeling an item hierarchy.

Using the owner field the items can be organized in a hierarhical tree structure. This allows, among other, reviewing the forecast at different levels in the Forecast editor.

Here is an example to model a tree structure with families and brands:

Example item hierarchy

Name

Owner

All items

Family 1

All items

Brand 1A

Family 1

Brand 1B

Family 1

Family 2

All items

Brand 2A

Family 2

Brand 2B

Family 2

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