Looking for any users that utilize the Manufacturing & Purchasing comments in Part Maintenance and if so, what do you typically use them for? Most of the content we have considered putting into those fields is information we are already housing in our Part Descriptions since the descriptions are easily searchable in multiple places like part search, enterprise search, etc. There are also other comments fields through the application being used to convey information like within the BOOs, BOMs, customers, etc. Just don’t want our continuous improvement team spending too much time trying to move stuff over if we have to create or customize a BAQ and search screens to find the content and I definitely do not want duplicate information in Part Maintenance (description and comments).
We use Purchasing Comments to add detailed specification and certification requirements to display to our suppliers. We also use Manufacturing Comments for comments to the production floor like “Do not pack more than 1,500/pallet. Exceeds customer’s forklift capacity.” Usually our comments are information that we normally wouldn’t need to search for or doesn’t need to be part of the description.
I believe when you pull a part into a job as the finished part or as a material/subassembly, Epicor will copy these comments over to the job/material record as a default. So if you find you’re entering the same comments on jobs and POs for particular parts then you could look into the Part comment fields to set these default comments.
The purchasing and manufacturing comments are great if you want to keep concise descriptions, but also need to add extra notes to a part depending on who is viewing it.
For we have purchased parts that we package as our own part number. If we were to keep the purchasing comments in the description then our customers would be seeing all sorts of vendor information on their sales acknowledgement.