Use this activity to define inventory parts that can be used as templates when you create new parts in IFS/PDM Configuration. Planning data for these parts will be copied when new inventory parts are created in PDM Configuration. If you have common planning data for parts that you want to use frequently when creating new parts, you can save time by specifying a part with those parameters as a template part. This data is used by the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) process and also in order proposal calculations in IFS/Inventory.
You can define more than one template part, but only one of the parts can be identified as the default. When creating a part in PDM Configuration, you can select from among the template parts entered in this tab. If you do not select a template part, the default template part will be used.
When you create new parts in PDM Configuration, you can select from among the template inventory parts to use for creating planning data for the new part. If you do not choose a template part, the part defined as the default template part will be used.