Items
The core of your product catalog.
What is the Items Screen?
The Items screen is where you define everything you buy, store, produce, or consume. Each item has a code, name, category, UoM, purchasing details, storage rules, and optional vendor assignments. Items are the foundation — every other module references them.
Key Features
Generic / child inheritance — define a template, children inherit defaults
Three list modes: Items, Generics, and Finished Goods
Effective purchase price resolved from vendor assignments (Preferred ? Cheapest)
Cold-chain rules: storage type, freeze/thaw tracking, restriction flags
Field-level lock/override for inherited values
PowerSearch for item code lookup with type-ahead filtering
How It Works
1. Search or Create — Use the left panel to find an existing item or click "New" to create one.
2. Fill Details — Set the item code, name, category, UoM, pack qty, and storage rules in the right panel tabs.
3. Assign Vendors — On the Suppliers tab, link vendors with prices. The system auto-resolves the effective purchase price.
4. Save — The item is now available across all modules: inventory, production, purchasing, and MRP.
Why It Matters
Clean item master data is the single biggest predictor of ERP success. If your items are wrong — wrong UoMs, missing vendors, no stock levels — every downstream process breaks. STORM's inheritance model and vendor-resolved pricing keep your data consistent with minimal effort.