Discrete Unit Configuration

• Discrete Unit Configuration
• • Package Types
  • Packing Templates
  • Packing Items
  • Container Types
  • Videos

A discrete material is a material that is handled as a distinct, identifiable entity in terms of creation, packing, movement, stocktaking, sales and consumption. Examples of materials that are handled as discrete materials are precious metals (for example, gold and silver bullion), base metals (for example, copper, lead, zinc) and packaged minerals (for example, mineral sands, cement).

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 (DU) 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

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

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; and 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.

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.