Maintaining Multi-Site Items from a Master Site

Use the Multi-Site Items form to maintain items for multiple sites on an intranet from the master site of the intranet. Keep in mind that each site can still control its local item records.

Adding Items

To add item for any site on the master site's intranet, follow the steps in Creating a New Item.

Copying Items to Other Sites

To copy an item to multiple sites in the same intranet from this form:

1. Select an existing item.  The item must be defined as completely as possible before you copy it, and the item record must be saved at one of the shared sites in the master site's intranet.
2. Select Actions > Multi-Site Copy. The Multi-Site Selection form is displayed.
3. Select one or more groups from the list of site groups in the left pane. The left pane only lists site groups where all of these are true:
   • The site group includes the master site.
   • The site group includes the source site from which the selected record will be copied.
   • All sites in the group are on the master site's intranet
4. A list of the sites in those groups is displayed in the right pane. Select one or more sites to which you want to copy the item.
5. Click OK to return to the Multi-Site Items form.
6. Save your changes to add the duplicate item records to the other sites.

Note: This procedure does not copy the item's BOM. To copy an item's single-level current routing and BOM to the same item at other sites, see Copying a Multi-Site Item Bill of Materials.

Information Filtered by Site

You specify the site when you add an item. The following fields are filtered by the selected site. For example, when you add an item and specify Site B, you can only select product codes that are valid at Site B.

• Alternate Item
• U/M
• Product Code
• Unit Weight U/M
• Family Code
• Production Type
• Warehouse
• Setup Group
• Reason
• Backflush Location
• Preferred Co-product Mix
• Commodity
• Origin

The Buyer field is filtered by the master site. That is, the information in the drop-down list is from the master site, not the site you specified.

Maintenance Tasks Not Available from this Form

For most tasks, you can use the Multi-Site Items form in place of the Items form. However, these tasks can be performed only in the Items form at the specific site:

• Delete an item
• Add notes to the record
• Specify tax information
• Define item categories, attributes, and related items
• Provide a picture of the item
• Display the BOM view
• Define scheduler batches for the item, and set a few other APS-related options
• Use Actions menu "List" options

Related Topics

Multi-Site Overview

Adding a Multi-Site Item (No Master Site)