Martin Williams  ·  May 2026

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Continuing the Maximo Mentor Series! Welcome to Inventory Management - Section 1: Item Setup and Inventory Lifecycle.

Are you preparing for the IBM C1000-208 Maximo Inventory Management certification exam? This session follows the entire life of a maintenance part, from its digital blueprint to the physical storeroom shelf.

Here's a sneak peek at the main areas this video covers

• The Blueprint: Crafting the Item Master record as your single source of truth for all spare parts and materials.
• Item Assembly Structures: Learn how to build complex items by defining parent-child relationships and compatible spare parts.
• Operational Guardrails: Understand how to use simple flags like "Tax Exempt," "Inspect on Receipt," and "Add as Spare Part" to automate your business rules.
• Items vs. Tools: Discover why Maximo manages these differently, particularly regarding capitalization and tool rates at the Organization level.

What you will learn

By the end of this session, you will have an exam-focused understanding of how to manage an item's identity and its movement into a physical storeroom. You will know how to use Condition Codes to track value changes, how to group consumables into Kits, and how to use the "Roll New Status" toggle to maintain consistency across your entire enterprise.

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