Inventory Definition Management: Tasks
(Level 3)

Managing information about transfer criteria for materials
- Should information about specific requirements/guidelines for material movements and/or material tracking be managed?’’
- How shall the information be available (paper, electronic, etc.)?
- Who knows about the internal logistic process? Responsibilities?

Managing new inventory definitions
- Shall the MES system manage inventory / warehouse definitions?
- What is the definition of an inventory?
- Are the definitions managed by a software? With interfaces to other systems?
- Who can create new definitions?
- Are all the definitions complete and up to date? How is that ensured
- For which inventury do you have existing documents?
- Which information is needed from (external) data bases?
- How and where can the user work with the documents?
Managing changes to inventory definitions
- Shall the MES manage changes to inventory/ warehouse definitions?
- How is the release process designed for inventory definitions?
- How shall the version management of the documents be implemented?
- Who has access to which documents und is allowed to make modifications?

Providing inventory definitions to other applications, personnel, or activities
- Shall the MES provide inventory/warehouse definitions to other systems, users or functions?
- Who and how has to be informed about the lauch of new inventory definitions?
- How is it ensured that the information is received?
- Does the modification of inventory definitions impact the resource management?
- Does a new inventory definition impact other functions (e.g. maintenance, procurement, logistic etc.)?
- How shall the documents be provided?
- Are the definitions changed frequently?

Managing the exchange of inventory definition information
- Which systems require and contain relevant information?”
- Shall the MES ensure the information exchange on inventory/warehouse definitions?
- Is a central system available?

Optimizing inventory definitions based on quality test analysis
- Shall the MES optimize the inventory/warehouse definitions based on quality test results?
- Which quality tests are related to which inventory definitions?
- Who is responsible for the integration of analysis results into inventory definitions?
- Have appropriate tests, whose results enable deduction to warehouse frame conditions, been defined in the Quality Operations Management?

Managing the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) definitions associated with inventory tests
- Shall the MES manage KPI definitions due to tests of inventory?
- Which KPIs using inventory data are implemented?