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Part Information

 

All items processed by the Purchasing application must be maintained using the Part Master Maintenance conversation in the Design Engineering application.  Procedures for performing Part Master Maintenance may be found in the Design Engineering User Manual.

Certain fields in the Part Master Maintenance conversation are critical when defining parts for the Purchasing application.  These are highlighted below:

 

Field

Screen

Notes

Part Type

Description
(DE100S02)

The Purchasing application can only process the following part types:

1 - Purchased Part
2 - Manufactured Part
3 - Raw Material
5 - Reference Part
6 - Build-thru Part
7 - Non-standard Part
8 - Transfer Part
C - Nonstocked Part

Purchasing
Unit of Measure

Description
(DE100S02)

This is used as the default unit of measure on the purchase order.

Group/Subgroup

Purchasing
(DE100S08)

The purchasing group and subgroup are used to group similar items for purchasing reports and inquiries.  How many groups and subgroups exist, and the criteria for assigning parts to them, are completely user defined.

Relationship

Purchasing
(DE100S08)

This flag indicates whether an item/vendor relationship is required before a purchase order may be created for this item.

 

 

If you wish to purchase an item only from approved vendors, this flag should equal Y.  If this control is not necessary, the Relationship Flag should be set to N and the Automatic Item/Vendor Create Flag (Reference File category 491) should be set to Y.  This will enable an item/vendor relationship to be generated automatically during purchase order maintenance.

PO Generation Mode

Purchasing
(DE100S08)

This flag indicates whether planned requisitions for this part generated by the Requirements Planning or Master Scheduling applications may be covered by a purchase order without first being reviewed and released by an analyst.  If you want an analyst to review all requisitions for this item before a purchase order can be created, this flag should equal N.

Inspection Required

Purchasing
(DE100S08)

The inspection required code specifies the type of quality control processing to be performed.