We have a number of purchased parts which are the same supplier part, but the customer specifies them on their bill of material as there own part number. We would like to create a single internal part number and cross refer this to the customer part numbers.
The internal part is on a supplier kanban bin system, so has a static quantity on hand available and we would never specifically buy; usage is backflushed from a separate non-nettable location, purely so as we can track the usage.
What I was hoping to do was for the method tracker/eng workbench to show the customer part number, but the system to cross refer and back flush the internal part number. Similarly the route card would reference the internal part.
We have regular up revs from customers that will have a bom referring to the customer part so we need to keep visibility of the customer part in these screens.
I’ve looked at alternates and customer parts but this doesn’t seem to give me what I need and a UD field would need to be added to lots of screens reports that engineering use when managing uprevs. Has anyone else come up with a simple solution of managing this kind of scenario?