Change Catalog Number

Explanation

Use this activity to change the registered catalog number for a serial structure template. The catalog number must be unique inside a template and for all templates above and all templates below in the structure. 

A value can be entered in the Catalog Number field if it does not contain any value. If the catalog number is already defined for a structure template, you can use the right mouse button option Change Catalog Number to change the catalog number. There are special rules for this change if IFS/Complex Assembly MRO is installed.

The IFS/Complex Assembly MRO solution bases the creation of position parts on the catalog number. The structure that is transferred to IFS/Manufacturing is based on position parts.

An alternate is required to have the same catalog number as the prime part. However, an alternate does not need to be assigned its own catalog number as it always gets the prime part's catalog number when the position part is created. 

The following rules apply for alternates, prime parts, position parts, and catalog numbers.

• If the alternate has a catalog number that is not the same as the prime part's catalog number, no new position part is created and no structure line is created in the transfer. If the alternate part has a different catalog number, the transfer does not use this catalog number in the creation of the structure. The alternate's catalog number is only used if the alternate part is the prime part in another template structure.
• If the alternate has a structure, all the components should have a catalog number. 
• If the component's catalog number is the same as the catalog number for the component to the prime part number, a position part or a structure line is created. If the same catalog number is used for both component of the prime part and for component of the alternate part, their structure positions and also their quantities should be same.
• If the alternate part component's catalog number differs from the prime part component's catalog number, a new position part is created and a new structure line is added as a child to the position part created for the prime part. 

If IFS/Complex Assembly MRO is installed, the rules for changing the catalog number are as follows.

1. Check if position parts based on this catalog number exist. If position parts do not exist you can change the catalog number.
2. If a position part exists, check if the position part is used in IFS/Manufacturing. If  the position part is not used, you can change the catalog number.
3. If the position part is used in IFS/Manufacturing, check if it is only used in 'Buildable', ‘Plannable’ or ‘Tentative’ product structures in the IFS/Manufacturing Standards. If not used or only used in product structures different to 'Buildable', 'Plannable' or 'Tentative’, you can change the catalog number. 
4. If the position part has not been used in any released work scope, you can change the catalog number. 
5. The position part reference for this structure position is automatically removed when the catalog number is changed.
6. Once the catalog number is changed, the following must be done:

• Run a new retransfer for the top template part.
• Manually clean up and/or delete old position parts from IFS/Part Catalog.

Prerequisites

• The catalog number change is allowed if the following is fulfilled in IFS/Manufacturing.

1. The catalog number is used in other than the 'Buildable', ‘Plannable’ or ‘Tentative’ product structure. When the structure has a status of 'Buildable', ‘Plannable’ or ‘Tentative’, the status must be manually set to ‘Obsolete’.
2. The catalog number is not used in a released work scope.

• Alternate part structures need to have the same structure position and same quantity if they have the same catalog number. This is due to the lookup that finds the assumed serial during the disassembly of shop orders in IFS/Manufacturing.
• The catalog number must be unique inside a of serial structure template and for all templates above and below for a top template part that will be transferred to IFS/Manufacturing.

System Effects

• When the catalog number is updated on the serial structure template and then retransferred to IFS/Manufacturing, the position part reference is updated and all the position parts based on the old catalog number are deleted.
• New position parts based on the new catalog number referring to the same structure position in the template structure are created when the top template is retransferred. 

Window

Serial Structure Template 
Template Structure Navigator 

Related Window Descriptions

Serial Structure Template/General
Serial Structure Template/Consist Of
Serial Structure Template/Multilevel
Template Structure Navigator/General 
Template Structure Navigator/Consist Of 

Procedure

Follow this procedure to change a catalog number using the Serial Structure Template window. The catalog number may also be changed in the Template Structure Navigator window.

1. From the Serial Structure Template window, query (F3) for the template part for which the catalog number will be changed.
2. Click the General tab. 
3. If the Catalog Number field for the template part does not contain a value, enter a catalog number value in this field. A catalog number value may also be entered in the Catalog Number field in the Consist Of tab or in the Multilevel tab.
4. If the Catalog Number field contains a value, right-click and click Change Catalog Number to open the Change Catalog Number dialog box.
5. Enter a value in the New Catalog No field.
6. Click OK. The rules for changing the catalog number are checked. If approved, the new catalog number takes effect.