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:
- Purchased: A purchased part that can have structures.
- Purchased (raw): A purchased raw material that cannot have structures.
- Expense: A purchased expense part that cannot have structures and is set to Not
Consumed when used in structures.
- Core: A worn-out part intended to serve as the base material in circular processes such as
remanufacturing, where It is broken down into disassembly components.
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 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.