Use this activity to enter different party types that can be connected to the equipment object. Party is a concept used to summarize all party types for which a company has business relations, for example suppliers and customers. For the party type 'Customer' you can connect one or several customer identities to the object. The information on party type 'Customer' is only used in IFS/Service Management. For the party type 'Supplier' you can connect one or several alternative supplier identities to the object. Similarly, rest of the party types such as Manufacturer,Contractor, Owner and Asset Manager can be used to make respective connections on the object.
Note that information on the object's actual supplier and actual manufacturer is entered in the General tab. This activity can be performed on an equipment object opening the the Parties tab in Functional Object or Serial Object page.
In order to connect a party to an object the information on the respective parties must exist in IFS/Enterprise.