You use the material workbench to view on–hand quantities. The Material Workbench enables you to view on–hand balances for inventory items by

• Location: Location information includes the subinventory and associated locators. You can also view subinventory quantities, including the packed and unpacked quantities.
• Cost Group: Cost Group information assigned to the item.
• Status: Status information that includes the statuses assigned to subinventories, locators, lots, and serials.
• Item: Item information includes the organization, item number, UOM, available quantity lot and serial number.
• LPN: If you are in a warehouse management enabled organization you can view LPN information for the item.
• Serial: Serial information lists the serial numbers generated for an organization, and the items associated with the serial numbers.
• Lot: Lot information lists the lot numbers generated for an organization and the items associated with the lot numbers.
The Material Workbench enables you to query on–hand balances for inventory items by: location, project, cost group, ownership, vendor, and planning party.

You can also use the Material Workbench create move orders, request cycle counts, and change material statuses.

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The following information is available on the Quantity alternate region of the Material Workbench
 Planning Party: The vendor that manages the inventory.
 Owning Party: The third party owner of the inventory.

2. Item Availability
You can use the material workbench to view item availability. Item availability can be calculated for a given item at the subinventory, locator, lot or revision. Availability cannot be calculated by serial number.
You can view the following information in the Availability window:
• Organization: The organization where the item resides
• Item / Revision: The item and revision number
• Subinventory: The subinventory within the organization where an item resides.
• Locator: The row rack and bin where the item resides.
• Lot Number: The item lot number.
• Cost Group: The item cost group.
• On Hand: The number of items available in the subinventory
• Available to Reserve: The available quantity of an item you can reserve across an organization.
• Available to Transact: The available quantity of an item you can transact across an organization.

You can view the following information in the effective status window.
• Subinventory Status: The subinventory status.
• Locator Status: The locator status. This field is blank if the item is not locator controlled.
• Lot Status: The lot status. This field is blank if the item is not lot controlled.
• Serial Status: The serial status. This field is blank if the item is not serial controlled.
• Transaction Types: The transaction types alternative region displays the allowed and disallowed transaction types for the
item.

5. Material Workbench Transactions
You can use the Material Workbench tools menu to perform the following transactions:
• Mass Move: Moves the selected items to a new subinventory.
• Mass Issue: Enabled you to mass issue an item.
• Status Update: Enables you to change status information.
• Cost Group Transfer: Enables you to transfer the item to another cost group.
• Cycle Counting: Enables you to initiate a cycle count for the selected subinventory.