ALTERNATE PARTS

Use this subtask to view the list of alternate parts by manufacturer and vendor for the selected component.  You establish and maintain standard alternate parts in the Part Master menu in Costpoint Product Definition.  You assign provisional alternate parts in the Maintain Provisional Parts screen in both Product Definition and Materials Estimating.

Alternate parts that are assigned to vendors that are flagged as payroll vendors are excluded from this list.

Proposal, Rev, Description

These fields display the proposal ID, revision (if applicable) and proposal description from the main screen.

Part, Rev, Description, U/M, Provisional

These fields display the part ID, revision (if applicable), part description, part unit of measure, and whether the part is provisional ("Y") or standard ("N").

Table Window

You can populate these fields for standard component parts in the Alternate Parts screen in Costpoint Product Definition, or in the Alternate Part Numbers subtask for provisional parts in the Maintain Provisional Parts screen. The system may use this information when establishing Request for Quotes in Costpoint Procurement Planning, or in the applications in the Proposal Item Costing and Request for Quotes menus in Materials Estimating. Conversely, you cannot use provisional alternate parts in Costpoint Procurement Planning; you can use them only for proposal and costing purposes. If the selected line in the main screen is a provisional part, its alternate part information will display in this screen.

Sequence

The sequence number (in order of preference) indicates the number of this line in the Alternate Parts screen (for standard parts) in Costpoint Product Definition, or in the Alternate Part Numbers subtask for provisional parts in the Maintain Provisional Parts screen.

Preferred

This field indicates whether the alternate part is preferred ("Y") or not ("N"). Only one alternate part can have the preferred status.

Manufacturer

The manufacturer ID of the alternate part for the component displays in this field.

Manufacturer Name

The name of the manufacturer of the alternate part displays in this field.

Manufacturer Part

This field displays the manufacturer part ID of the alternate part.

Mfr Rev

This field displays the manufacturer revision for the part.

Vendor

This field displays the vendor ID assigned to the alternate part.

Vendor Name

This field displays the vendor name for the vendor ID.

Vendor Part

The part ID of the vendor part is displayed in this field.

Vendor Rev

The revision of the vendor part is displayed in this field.

Part Pref Type

This field displays the part preference type for this alternate part from the Part Preference Types table in Costpoint Product Definition.

Vendor Approval Status

This field displays the vendor's Approval Code that was set in Accounting » Accounts Payable » Vendor Info » Approve Vendors. This is "A" if the vendor is approved, "N" if the vendor is not approved, or "P" if the vendor's approval status is pending.