Maximo 7.1 Base Services has added several new enhancements to the Item master application including the:

• the ability to give items a status (users can now set statuses for items that are no longer to be used)
• the item status is governed by business rules (ie if an item is referenced on a PO or job plan it cannot have its status changed to say obsolete)
• the ability to roll the status down to an organization and it's inventory records
• the ability to view the status history of the item and the user who initiated the change
• the ability to change the status of more than one item at a time when selected from the list tab
• the ability to add an image of the item to the item record making it easier for supply chain personnel to identify an item
• item organization records are now generated when a new item is created and save
• the addition of the Maximum Quantity Issued field which is used to specify the maximum number of items that can be issued to a given asset (this is useful in situations where software is being issues to or applied to a pc or similar scenarios)