Centralized Part Description

The centralized part description should be used when you want to have one and the same part description displayed for the Part Catalog, Inventory Part, Purchase Part and/or Sales Part, or if you want to have a translation of the part description to be displayed due to the user selected session language.

If the centralized part description is enabled on the site record for the specific part type, the system will fetch the part description from the Part window, which would be the single place needed to maintain the centralized part description for this part type and site.

If  there exist a translated description in the Language Description tab on the Part window and this description has the same language code as selected by the user when starting the session, this translated description will be displayed when the centralized part description is enabled for this site and part type.

In the Customer Order and the Purchase Order flows the part description is fetched using the foreign language code defined for the customer or the supplier.

Customer Order and Purchase Order Flow

In the Customer Order flow the Sales Part Description is fetched in the following order:

1. From a possible existing Sales Part Cross Reference for the Customer and Part
2. From a possible existing Sales Part Language Description with the same Language Code as entered on the Customer
3. From the Part Catalog Language Description
   if the Use Part Catalog Description as description for Sales Part check box is selected
   and a Part Catalog Language Description exist with the same Language Code as entered on the Customer
4. From the Part Catalog Description if the Use Part Catalog Description as description for Sales Part check box is selected
5. From the Sales Part Description if the Use Part Catalog Description as description for Sales Part check box is not selected

In the Purchase Order flow the Purchase Part Description is fetched in the following order:

1. From a possible existing Purchase Part Description with the same Language Code as entered on the Supplier.
2. From the Part Catalog Language Description
   if the Use Part Catalog Description as description for Purchase Part check box is selected
   and a Part Catalog Language Description exist with the same foreign Language Code as entered on the Supplier
3. From the Part Catalog Description if the Use Part Catalog Description as description for Purchase Part check box is selected
4. From the Purchase Part Description if the Use Part Catalog Description as description for Purchase Part check box is not selected
   
   Enable Centralized Part Description

The Centralized Part Description is defined for each Site and for each Part Type in the Site window where the Use Part Catalog Description as Description for Inventory Part check box on the Inventory tab indicates whether the centralized part description should be used for the Inventory parts on this site, and the Use Part Catalog Description as Description for Sales Part and Use Part Catalog Description as Description for Purchase Part check boxes on the Distribution tab indicates whether the centralized part description should be used for the Sales and/or Purchase part.