Shared items between manufacturing sites

> We have consolidated two similar companies (both Plastics manufacturers)
> into a single environment and a single company number.
> They are located reasonably far (1100km / 800miles) apart. 
> Each site manufactures product and books it into it's own warehouse. Both
> manufacture similar goods and in some case the same items.
> However each site has it's own item numbers for stock (both components and
> finished goods)
> We want to be able to see the qty in both and have demand raised on one
> site raise requirements or look at the stock is already held in the other
> site.
> 
> We can not use the same item numbers because the bills and routings use
> different item numbers and cost centres.
> By making the finished item number the same we'd then have to change all
> of the components and then renumber all of our stock. This would have some
> benefits but the machinery used in each plant may be different and we
> don't want to be continually releasing a different routing for the items.
> 
> By remaining separate item numbers we must transfer the cost (if we move
> stock from one to the other) of the item. This can be done with a TW to
> the other sites warehouse but then it we have the same stock on hand as
> two different item numbers. It must then be issued and receipted as site
> 2's item number (to stop there being 2 items the same)
> 
> By site 2 raising purchase orders against site 1 using site 2's item
> number will work. But this will show up in MMA as a sale and it isn't
> really as we don't want to report internal sales.
> 
> We would like to use ISL but there is no "conversion table" to say item
> number 123 maps to xyz. We may have to write one.
> 
> We are running XA R2V5. Additional Modules (in addition to the basics) :
> ISL, KBC, MMA, EPDM, PM and MPSP. These may have an impact on the answer. 
> 
> Does anyone else have a similar problem or suggestion on how we might
> proceed?
> Any comments or help would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Mark Dunn
> Mapics Application Support
> PDL Holdings Limited
> Ph:  +64 (03) 339 1783  Fax: +64 (03) 339 1702
> E-Mail: mark.dunn@pdl.co.nz
> Visit our website: www.pdl.co.nz
> 
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