Inventory splitting
Understand and initiate inventory splitting
When splitting an inventory, the original inventory has its quantity decreased. A new inventory is then created for the quantity difference. This new inventory copies over nearly all of the properties from the original inventory. It also maintains a link to original inventory that is called
originPartInventoryId in the API.
You can manually split an inventory via the inventory or receipts views.
When splitting, you have 2 options:
- 1.Split - Splits a single item into 2 items by specifying a quantity. Example: Inventory is quantity 10 and you want to split off one for qty 3.
- 2.Split Many - Splits a single item into multiple items by specifying the number of items desired. Example: Inventory is quantity 10 and you want to create 10 inventories of quantity 1.
ION will automatically split inventory when partially installing, kitting, or scrapping a quantity. This occurs to keep the location/status of inventory items correct. For instance, if you have an inventory for quantity 2 and you kit 1 item, the inventory will split. Now the item that has been kitted will properly show a "Kitted" status and its location can be updated from the original.
Inventory relates to a lot of different objects in ION: runs, kits, issues, purchase lines, etc. Runs and issues only allow 1 inventory item to be related to them. When an inventory that is tied to a run (or issue) is split, it will use the origin part inventory information to maintain a reference to the run/issue.
For the inventory items shown below, the inventory was added to a run and then there was an issue tied to it. When that inventory was split, the new inventory created maintains a reference to both the run and the issue (see "Appears on" and "Issues" columns).
This is also reflected on the aBOM within the trace view:
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