Centralized Part Description

The centralized part description should be used when it is required: when the same part description is displayed for the Part Catalog, Inventory Part, Purchase Part, and/or Sales Part, or when it is needed to display a translated part description based on the user-selected session language.

If the centralized part description is enabled on the site record for the specific part type, the system will fetch the part description from the Part page, which would be the single place needed to maintain the centralized part description for this part type and site.

If there is a translated description available on the Part Language Descriptions page, and this description has the same language code selected by the user at the start of the session, the translated description will be displayed when the centralized part description is enabled for this site and part type.

In the Customer Order and the Purchase Order flows, the part description is fetched using the foreign language code defined for the customer or the supplier.

  Customer Order and Purchase Order Flow

In the Customer Order flow, the Sales Part Description is fetched in the following order:

1. From a possible existing Sales Part Cross Reference for the Customer and Part.
2. From a possible existing Sales Part Language Description with the same Language Code as entered on the Customer.
3. From the Part Catalog Language Description,
       if the Use Part Catalog Description as description for Sales Part option is selected,
       and a Part Catalog Language Description exist with the same Language Code as entered on the Customer.
4. From the Part Catalog Description if the Use Part Catalog Description as description for Sales Part option is enabled.
5. From the Sales Part Description if the Use Part Catalog Description as description for Sales Part option is disabled.

In the Purchase Order flow, the Purchase Part Description is fetched in the following order:

1. From a possible existing Purchase Part Description with the same Language Code as entered on the Supplier.
2. From the Part Catalog Language Description,
       if the Use Part Catalog Description as description for Purchase Part option is selected,
       and a Part Catalog Language Description exist with the same foreign Language Code as entered on the Supplier
3. From the Part Catalog Description if the Use Part Catalog Description as description for Purchase Part option is enabled
4. From the Purchase Part Description if the Use Part Catalog Description as description for Purchase Part option is disabled.
   

Enable Centralized Part Description

The Centralized Part Description is defined for each Site and for each Part Type on the Site page. The option Use Part Catalog Description as Description for Inventory Part  In the Warehouse Management section indicates whether the centralized part description should be used for the Inventory parts on this site. And the options Use Part Catalog Description as Description for Sales Part and Use Part Catalog Description as Description for Purchase Part on the Sales and Procurements section indicate whether the centralized part description should be used for the Sales and/or Purchase part.