Product-Related Information Transfer
You can send product-related information from one site to another.
When you transfer product information, you create a transfer site (see Site Maintenance).
The transfer site resides in the database of the destination site. You can use all the maintenance activities to change information and prepare the data for the other site to import the data. If information the system requires was missing from a record exported to the transfer site, you must supply the required information before importing it.
The system can transfer the following product-related information. All of this information is related to a specific material or material group.
Material (see Material)
Routing (see Routing)
Operation (see Operation)
Resource type
BOM (see Bill of Material)
Components (Component)
Alternate materials
Assembly data type
Alternate material definition
Copied from BOM
Note
You cannot create and release demand or use the Production Operator Dashboard (POD) at a transfer site.
You control which information the system sends with templates you create in Export Template Maintenance
(see Export Template Maintenance). The system comes with two
templates: ITEM_DEFAULT
and ITEM_GROUP_DEFAULT
. If these templates do not meet your needs, you can create additional ones.
Example
The following figure illustrates how the system uses the transfer site for configuration data transfer and is followed by an explanation:
A user at location 2 logs into site DEF and creates a transfer site named GHI. This user then logs to the site GHI and creates a user account with a password. A user at location 2 logs into site ABC, the source site, and creates a transfer site also named GHI. Because GHI is remote to ABC,
the user clears the Site is Local
checkbox.
The ABC user also enters server and port information for GHI, as well as the user name and password of the user account created on the transfer site at location 2. When it exports your data, the system uses the information in the GHI site at location 1 to know how to send your data to the GHI transfer site at location 2. The duplicate transfer site enables the massaging of data prior to importing it to the destination site.