Enter Purchased Inventory Part, Main
Explanation
The procedure below is the first of a number of procedures that might be needed in
order to initiate and later on, complete the registration of a purchased inventory part
on the
Inventory Part page. The header fields are mandatory,
whereas not all the other information might be required on all occasions. Depending on the
area of use of the inventory part, you might need to specify some values, but not all.
Some of the other fields are optional, as outlined in the Procedures below.
When entering an inventory part for multi-site ordering, the
ordering/receiving site, the part type must be set to Purchased. The site for
the inventory part should be the ordering/receiving site.
Prerequisites
- A planner must be entered on the
Inventory
Part Planners page.
- The unit of measure must be defined on the
Unit of Measure page.
- If the part should be entered on a site other than the default one, this
site must be connected to your user ID. This is done on the
Sites per User
page.
- If commodity groups are to be used, they must be defined on the
Commodity Groups page.
- Asset classes must be defined on the
Inventory Part Asset Classes
page.
- Part Status must be defined on the
Inventory Part
Status page.
- ABC-Code must be defined on the ABC
Classes page.
- Safety Code, if applicable, must be defined on the
Safety Instructions page.
- Accounting Group, if applicable, must be defined on the
Inventory Part Accounting Groups page.
- Product Code, if applicable, must be defined on the
Inventory
Part Product Codes
page.
- Product Family, if applicable, must be defined on the
Inventory
Part Product Families
page.
- For the inventory part to inherit warranty data, the warranty data must
first be entered for the part.
System Effects
The initial mandatory information for a purchased inventory part is entered into the
system.
When the inventory part is created, it inherits any default
warranty types defined for the part catalog part.
Make entries with inventory parts
throughout the system, e.g., spare parts for equipment objects, material requirements for
PM actions and work orders, etc.