When would I customize an insertion point?

For material tracking, insertion points are provided in three general areas of processing performed by the Material Server:

Combining sublots inside a composite container can require customization. Without customization, sublots added into a composite container already holding a sublot of a different lot will become part of that other lot. Often it is more appropriate for a new lot to be created. If this is the case, how should a new lot name be selected? This question can be applied to the label of the sublots as well as the attributes of the sublots. The correct processing can be dependent on many factors that are specific to a plant or process.

Updating inventory quantities can require customization. As sublots are produced and consumed, customers can find it useful to trigger other applications to perform processing. Insertion points provide a place for users to create points of integration between applications. For example, insertion points added around inventory quantity updates are used by one application to help manage container selection priorities for binding. When a sublot within a container is changed, the container selection priorities get recalculated.

Initializing lots as they are created can require customization. Creation of a new lot can involve standard operating procedures that are specific to one site. Insertion points allow for custom initialization of lot attributes and the calculation of a lot state.