Part Type

Each item must be classified as one of the standard part types.  The standard part types and their uses are as follows: 

• Purchased Part. Used to define a part that is procured from a supplier.  A routing cannot be defined and manufacturing orders cannot be raised for a purchased part(may have a bill of material for reference) 
• Manufactured Part. A part that is generally produced in house.  A bill of material and (if the Manufacturing Engineering module is installed) a routing should be defined for the part.  Manufacturing orders, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, transfer requisitions, and/or transfer orders may be raised for a manufactured part.  
• Raw Material.  A routing cannot be defined and manufacturing orders cannot be raised for a raw material part.  A raw material part and a purchased part are treated identically by the system.  
• Planning Part.  Used to define a product family or group.  A forecast or a production plan may be defined for a planning part, then exploded to end items using a planning bill of material.  Stock cannot be maintained and orders cannot be created for a planning part.  
• Reference Part.  Used to define a miscellaneous, non-inventoried item.  It is used as follows: - It can be added to the product structure of a part, or as a component on a manufacturing order, as a reference item such as a drawing or a tool. However, an inventory issue to a manufacturing order cannot be recorded for a reference part.- It can be added to a sales order to reflect a miscellaneous expense such as freight charges.- It cannot have an inventory balance.- It cannot be manufactured.- It cannot be specified on a purchase order.  
• Build-Thru Part.  A build-thru part is generally used to define a part that is manufactured but that is not stocked and, once produced, is used immediately in the production of another product.  If a manufacturing order is opened for a part that includes a build-thru as a component, the Picking List will include the components of the build-thru part, as well as those of the ordered part, but will ignore the build-thru part.  A manufacturing order can be raised for the build-thru itself, and stock balances can be held.  A routing cannot be defined for a build-thru.  
• Non-Standard Part.  A non-standard part is costed using moving average, rather than standard, costing.  It cannot be manufactured and cannot be used as a component in the manufacture of other items, but can be purchased or sold.  
• Transfer Part.  A transfer part, when entered, requires a sourcing plant to be defined (as opposed to the plant which uses the part) and the same part must be defined in the sourcing plant as a manufactured, build-thru, purchased, raw material, or transfer part type.  If the part in the sourcing plant is defined as a transfer part type as well, its sourcing plant cannot be the same plant as that of the original transfer part type. In general, a "daisy chain" relationship cannot exist among the same part numbers defined as transfer parts between networked plants.