Parts

Silkline's Parts library helps companies to organize their procurement data, ensure that Requests and Purchase Orders are correctly linked to part/item masters, and analyze procurement history of a part.

Part creation/editing

Typically, we recommend that part/item maters are maintained in a customer's PLM and then integrated with applicable systems such as Silkline, an ERP, and an MES.

Silkline supports part creation/editing directly within Silkline to support these use cases:

• Customers who don't have an external system (e.g., PLM) to manage their parts library

• Customers who want buyers to be able to create part/item masters during their workflow for creating requests or POs

  • If applicable, item masters can be synced back to external systems, like a PLM

Latest revision

For external systems that indicate which revision is the latest for a part, this latest status is displayed as a badge next to the part revision badge:

This value also appears in part searches to help identify which part is the latest when adding items to a request or purchase order.

Part fields

Field	Description
Part Number	The part number associated with the part (required)
Revision	The revision number/letter/code associated with the part (not required by Silkline, but may be required by other systems)
Description	The text description of the part; this value is searchable and also appears on RFQs/POs
Unit of Measure	The unit of measure text associated with the part (e.g., EA, KGS, FT); by default, this value is a free text field since external systems have various unit of measure schemas
Tracking Level	Multiple selection amongst these values: Lot, Serial