Enterprise Coding

The item and part identification and cataloging system is very important for manufacturing enterprises. This system introduces mechanisms for correct and unambiguous data identification for the desired items and is a key stage in PLM and ERP system implementation projects that requires consensus and adoption by corporate governance.

Failure to use standard product identification codes will create various disorganizations in product classification. Some of the problems caused by the lack of a unified coding system in the organization include:

• The lack of a standardized framework for identifying and cataloging items
• Redundant codes for items due to incorrect identification
• Using different names for the same item in the enterprise systems, including repair and maintenance, production, logistics, finance, and others due to the absence of standard item identification and cataloging system
• Unreliable item data due to non-standard identification and cataloging
• Unreliable statistical reports of items like final price report due to incomplete, inaccessible, or incorrect main item data
• Inability to substitute various items that have the same application in different fields
• Inability to determine manufacturing resources and supply items
• Item inaccessibility due to information gaps despite ensured availability
• The inability to make correct and data-based plans for items in enterprise transactions, such as production and supply, due to incomplete or incorrect item data
• The inability to make correct and data-based plans for items in enterprise transactions, such as production and supply, due to incomplete or incorrect item data

In this regard, one of our enterprise services is to implement mechanized, fully-customized, and multilevel item coding in PLM and ERP systems. The advantages of this system include:

1. Identifying equal items in the enterprise by attributing one name or code to each product
2. Dividing the inventory into groups and smaller sub-groups, which places similar items into controllable groups.
3. Creating a reliable and correct data foundation for the information management system.
4. Creating a shared communications language for logistics, warehousing, accounting, design, engineering, and other departments.
5. Creating a self-control system to avoid excessive product variety
6. A fully-mechanized and embedded system in the PLM or ERP software suite
7. Simultaneous use of official and unofficial, departmental, and enterprise coding
8. Dividing the code into various product classifications in terms of technical aspects, application, installation and use, symmetry, paintability, consumption and non-consumption, primary and secondary groups, manufactured or supplied, and others.
9. Providing customized forms for selecting the product’s important features in coding.