Discrete Unit Configuration

When a material is packaged or formed as an individual unit (for example, an ingot or bar), the material is said to be of a discrete unit form.

Package Types

Package types define the allowable products and default masses for packages of that type. Package types are required for packing templates.

Packing Templates

Packing templates define default values for:

• The location in which to create packages
• The type of packages to create
• Where the material to fill the packages comes from
• How the material is to be sampled when packages are created

Other information in the packing template is inherited from the package type, but can be overridden.

Packages are created in batches, based on a packing template.

Packing Items

Packing items can be assigned to package groups and are in addition to the material that is in the package groups. Examples of packing items include pallets and headboards. If packing items are assigned to a package group, the tare mass of the package group is calculated as the total mass of the packing items.

Container Types

Container types define the storage type (bulk or packaged material) and mass of a container.

Containers can be associated with a predefined container type that specifies a storage type for bulk or packaged material, and the container mass. A package group created from a container inherits the container type of the container.

Package groups can also be associated directly with a container type. This is appropriate when unique physical shipping containers do not need to be managed and tracked, but the number of containers is important for ordering containers or calculating contract charges.

Videos

A Datamine consultant recorded two videos about discrete units in MineMarket.