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. I.e., an inventory part with one of the below Part Type values:

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

System Effects

The initial mandatory information for a purchased inventory part with Lead Time Code set to Purchased 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.