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Item Specification in Arena

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Item Master Management

Centrally manage a complete
and accurate item master list.

To build your products you need to know what goes into them. Your item master must have information on every component which your company buys, builds, or assembles into products. Details about the shape, size, material and vendor for every individual part are necessary for accurate item master management.

In most organizations the component information lives in multiple departments all over the company — drawings in engineering, vendors in purchasing, and assembly instructions in manufacturing. With Arena all the information about a part, assembly, or product can be kept together and yet still be accessible to all who need it.

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Item master management in Arena enables individual part management, including associated documentation, as well as management of the part’s relationship to all the products in the product portfolio. With Arena, changes to individual parts have a cascading effect, meaning that the immediately impacted assemblies as well as the top level products can be quickly identified before any changes are implemented. Item master management to this depth with Excel would require a collection of cross-referenced spreadsheets and a visual basic guru.

Benefits of Item Master Management in Arena

  • Control new part introduction into your purchasing item master or ERP system.
  • Enable improved part reuse by easily finding and evaluating existing approved parts on your item master list.
  • Gain instant visibility into the impact of part changes across all product lines in the product portfolio.
  • Evaluate part status in the context of change history through complete part, assembly, and product level revision tracking.
  • Ensure item master record integrity and accuracy by reducing errors and information lag time.

Details of Item Master Management in Arena

  • Complete part specifications: Capture and associate all critical part data including drawings, specifications, and data values in a single location.
  • Smart part numbering: Automated numbering of items in user-defined formats which allow capturing company specific commodity codes and unique sequential cores.
  • Custom attributes: Configure any number of custom attributes to capture the details of your part specifications.
  • Where-used: Quickly view immediate and top-level assemblies which contain an item.
  • Revision control: Clearly identify working revisions, superseded revisions and the effective revision of an item, and lock the specification from unauthorized change.
  • Auto-revision sequences: Preset part revision sequences can be set by lifecycle stage and used automatically when a part is revised.
  • Lifecycle stage support: Visually track the status of an item as it moves from concept to design to production.
  • File attachments: Attach unlimited files in any format to items, or associate them with a URL/FTP location.
  • Duplication with complete history: create an exact item duplicate with complete historical context including the complete history of all item changes.
  • Change notification: Subscribe to be automatically notified any time an item or its related data is revised.
  • Item classification: Organize items into multi-level categories, and extend the item master record with classification-specific attributes.
  • 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 including associated files.