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Merging parts (or linking them)

  • 31 October 2022
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Hello community,

 

Two sites we have are in an internal supplier/customer relationship. The problem is they have some parts that are physically the same, however they have different part numbers.

I would like to clean this up with a single part number for both.

Is there a way that the historic data of the part number I drop is linked to the new part #? Or maybe a way to merge both part # into something new, but with the old data linked to this merged part #?

For example, I have part ABC in site 1 and part XYZ in site 2. Both are exactly the same, apart from their part # and site in IFS. If I make part XYZ obsolete in site 2 and I create ABC in site 2, I would still like (as a buyer) to be able to make a search on the quantity of ABC we purchased from site 1 and 2 in the past years and have the data from ABC and historic XYZ (without having to specifically ask to get XYZ data).

Does it make sense?


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Userlevel 7
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You’ll want to look into Alternate Parts, that should do what you are trying to accomplish.

 

https://docs.ifs.com/ifsclouddocs/22r2/default.htm?openpage=https://docs.ifs.com/ifsclouddocs/22r2/MaintainInventory/ActivityPartCaDefineAlternateParts.htm

 

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