This activity is used to create cross references between your sales part numbers and a customer's part numbers. This task is to be performed by a material administrator, a logistics responsible or an equivalent personnel.
When the customer assigns a name to a part that differs from that used in the IFS system, you can enter the customer's part number and description as a cross-reference. One sales part reference can be connected to many customer part references. The descriptions can also be different.
You can connect one or more sales parts to one or more customer's parts. This function is useful if the customer wants to use their own part numbers when they send you purchase orders.
This dual listing can be displayed on various documents, which makes it easier for both you and your customer to accurately maintain records using familiar part numbers.
This functionality is particularly useful in a repetitive/schedule environment when using EDI. Actually, it is required to establish a cross reference in a multi-site environment, even if the part numbers in the sites are the same.
This activity can also be used to enable self-billing for a sales part.
Receiving advice information is useful for confirming deliveries made to the customer. This activity can be used to indicate the advice types that can be matched to deliveries of a certain part number, or to disable the possibility to match receiving advice for a certain part number. Receiving advice of type Arrived Goods only includes the arrived quantities and the date on which the goods arrived. The Approved Goods type is used to receive information from the customer about received and approved quantities, and the dates on which the parts where fully inspected.
Note: If you want to enable both types of receiving advice for the sales part, select Customer Default (from the Sales Part Cross Reference page) and Arrived and Approved Goods (from the Customer/Sales/Message Defaults tab).
In customer scheduling, you can create sales part cross references directly in case the relation between your sales part and the customer's part number is nonexistent. The ability to create cross references is made possible when a customer schedule agreement part is being created.
This activity has the following prerequisites:
As a result of this activity: