Supplier Part Numbers & Purchase Unit Conversions

Create relationships between your internal parts and suppliers that help effectively communicate supplier part numbers and supplier units of measure

The new supplier part number feature will enable you to create relationships between ION parts and the supplier parts from which they can be sourced. Within this new screen, you can set up the relationship between part and supplier, a supplier part number, and a unit of measure conversion between the supplier part number and the ION part.

These units of measure conversions only apply to purchases.

Example Use Case

Here is an example of what that supplier part number configuration screen could look like for an internal wire part and roll-based supplier part. The ION part has feet specified on its library record, which is the unit that will be used on an mBOM and ultimately consumed on an aBOM. The roll from Absolute Precision has 100 Feet in it. When the buyer purchases the internal part they will have a new column called Supplier Part (shown below) which allows them to pick the supplier part number associated with that supplier <> ION part combination. In the case above, the buyer should populate the quantity of rolls, not feet, to be purchased. Along these same lines, you should be putting the roll cost into the unit cost field not the per foot cost.

The inventory (with the status of On Order) associated to the purchase order line will show as the inventory unit of measure while the purchase order line will show as the supplier unit of measure.

In the above case, the inventory will show as feet while the purchase order line will show as rolls.

This feature will enable purchasing teams to buy in aggregate quantities while allowing downstream activities to consume the proper amounts.

Setting a supplier part number on the parts screen

On the part side panel of a part in the library, press the "Associated Supplier Part Numbers" dropdown to see existing supplier part numbers associated with that part or create a new one by pressing the "Create new" button. When you enter this part on a purchase order with a recognized supplier you will be prompted to select from this predefined list of supplier parts.