Part number changing

Epicor ERP 10
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Hey guys,
We are currently looking at using new part numbers internally, and I was wondering if anyone had any experience doing this. If I change one parts part number will I have to manually move inventory to that new part number, or can I simply go into the part and edit it’s part number leaving all inventory alone?

Thanks,
Andrew

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You can’t change part numbers, it would have to be a totally new one in the system, so yes, you will have to change the inventory. Make sure your costs are in place on both part numbers when you transfer it because it will affect you inventory valuations.

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A clean way to change the parts and handle the costs is to create a job for the new part and engineer the job with one old part. Issue all the parts to the job and complete the new parts to stock. You have a nice record of what happened and any cost changes between the two falls out in variance.

Mark W.

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That being said do you know of anyway to distinguish parts that can be used in production from parts that aren’t to be used in production?

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There are lots of ways you could accomplish that. Since that is such a business specific thing you’ll need more detail.

Off the top of my head you could.

  1. add a UD field to denote X
  2. use an attribute field that is already in the system to denote x
  3. make a BPM that follows your established rules to only allow part X in Y situations. (that all depends on what kinds of rules that you have and where you want to prevent/allow things)
  4. if the parts are obsolete, you can set them to inactive, or runout

That’s not even a full list. If you have a more clear objective, an option will probably pop out as the best.