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When working with Inventory Part statusses there are basicly 2 options:
Any comments on how this is done are welcome :-)
The minimum number is actually just two:
One default for New parts with everything allowed, this is what I would recommend, we label the name as A = Active
Then an opposite is needed for items that Inactive/Discontinued, which we call Do Not Sell (DNS). Our code is J, but that is just from a legacy system. It could as well be I for Inactive.
We have a couple of others for Kanban parts and parts planned for scrap/obsolescence.
I wouldn’t understand embedding responsibility by department into the part status. Responsibility is through the Buyer/Planner/Manuf Engineer fields.
The IFS suggestion for the field seems reasonable also:
It can be A (Active), E (Experiment Part), I (Inactive), or O (Expired).
I feel the more complicated you make the information in this field, the more likely it is to be wrong, or the more effort it is to maintain it.
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Thanks for this quick and very usefull reply. Fully agree. Embedding responsibilities was not so much about the responsibility like you described, but an attempt to embed a workflow because the inventory part holds all kind of data which should be handled by different departments (engineering, planning, procurement, finance) when creating a new part. Having said that: that could also easily be solved by a custom field “Department to take action”.
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Moved to Supply Chain.
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