Parts

Use the Parts module to register and manage parts you purchase, use, produce, or sell on a regular basis. The term "part" is a general term that can refer to goods, services, or other items.

The following part types are available in Isah:

• Purchase part
• Production part
• Costs
• Service
• Functional BOM

You can keep stock of purchase parts and production parts. Production parts and functional BOMs can be added complete with a product calculation. In addition, you can add basic data, including dimensions, warehouse location, and purchase and sales prices.

Parts can be used in different ways:

• As part of a semi-finished product or finished product (purchase parts, production parts, and functional BOMs)
• As a product that is offered or sold based on an offer or order (purchase parts or production parts)
• As an item that is charged on an offer or order (costs and services)

General and product-specific calculations

To keep the data in the Parts module manageable, some companies do not add any parts they produce or purchase just once or only occasionally. They use dummy parts for such parts instead. Dummy parts are parts that may refer to product X on one occasion, and to product Y on another. It is only in the production modules that a (customer-specific) calculation is added for these parts.

Other companies deliberately choose to register also one-off products under their own part code and with their own calculation in the Parts module. Those companies are mostly companies in which part traceability is key.

Unit codes and dimensions

You can use various unit codes for parts, for example 'Quantity' for piece parts, or 'Quantity * Length' for parts for which you always want to register their length. The unit code of a part determines which dimension fields (Length, Width, or Height) are mandatory when a part is used, for example in a part calculation or on a purchase order. For a part with the 'Quantity * Length * Width' unit code, for example, you are required to specify the length and width when you add the part to a calculation, a purchase order, etcetera.

When registering the part itself in the Parts module, you can use the General tab to specify the length, width and height, even if the unit code does not require this information. For a part with the 'Quantity' unit code, for example, you can specify the length and width. In general, you will specify these dimensions only for piece parts, and then only if the part has fixed dimensions. Examples include rods that are often used in commercial six-meter lengths. As in this case the length is merely informational, you need to set the dimension length and the unit code length to 'Pieces'.

Unit codes may vary by functional area. For example, you may register a particular part in the stock records as a piece part, but purchase it in lengths, and register its price in kilos. To ensure that you can change the unit at any time without any problems, you need to enter conversion information. Enter this conversion information on the different tabs of the Parts form.

Note: If both the stock unit and the purchase unit are set to 'Quantity * Length', and you make purchase the part to order, you need to specify the length of the part, because otherwise the purchase unit cannot be converted to stock units. The Length field is not obligatory, however, when making the purchase. If you do not enter the length, a purchase requirement will be created without quantities and dimensions.

Example

In the example above, the purchasing method (in stock units or purchase units) determines which settings apply.