Sage 100

In Item Code Maintenance where you set up the units of measure. What is "SALES" used for? Is it used for sales to an end user, or is it used for the recipes/bill of materials/costed bill sales?

When we enter a new item code into "Item Maintenance," it used to create a new product in the system. However now when we enter a new product code, everything goes blank, but it says "NEW" right by the Description (as it would do before). Everything else…