Been there done that, took a lot of work. It depends if you also want Centralized Engineering, Revisions to sync down or just Parts (which is basically Multi-Company).
As for standardization, most folks make an External App (with an ETL) or BPM Form to ask the User some questions and from those answers they form the Description and what type of Part.
Some use Incremental PartNums, some want Smart PartNums.
Part Type for example had:
- SubAssembly
- Finished Good
- Design Code
- Reference Part
- Component
- Customer Supplied
It will determine if its a Make Direct or Purchased Part, if its a Phantom, if its Qty Bearing, Backflush, Run MRP, TrackLots etc…
It depends on what you are building… but remember if a Part is a Finished Good and the Engineering Group has 20 Materials, 20 Sub-Assemblies (children parts) you need to cycle through all of those and sync them down too… Then if you are Multi-Site you need to worry about PartSite and Alt Methods too.
TLDR; Been there, its doable, its a fun project, but it will take some time!
We used an ETL because the Rebuilding all the Airplane Parts could take 3 hours… BOMs are huge. Sync REST wasnt an option, needed to be fire and forget, async.
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Your also Epicor SaaS, good luck I guess 