Identifying the items that are specific to customer (R12 and R11)

Scenario: The user has a situation where the sales rep must find it easy on identifying the items that are specific to customer. All customers may not purchase the same type of items. Some plastic items and some automobiles and so on.  By certain logic user may want to populate only the items which are relevant to the customer.

Solution:

1. If you are in R12, You can set the Item Orderability rules to populate specific set of items in an OU as per the rules defined.You should make sure the profile OM: Use materialized view for Items LOV is set to Yes apart from defining the item orderability rules.