Use this activity to associate your company's part numbers to manufacturers' part numbers. Each part that you maintain in inventory can be associated with one or more manufacturer part numbers.
If a manufacturer supplies more than one manufacturer part for your part number, you can select one of those manufacturer part numbers to be the preferred manufacturer part. The manufacturer part number must be approved before it can be selected as the preferred manufacturer part number. If you have selected a preferred manufacturer and a preferred part number from that manufacturer, the system will use that part as the default manufacturer part whenever you order that part.
The changes to the Approved field are stored, and the history for the manufacturer part numbers can be viewed at any time.
The manufacturer must be connected to your company part number in IFS/Part Catalog.