Inventory application

You use the Inventory application to track the movement of parts in and out of storerooms and when you issue them to work orders, locations, aircraft, or equipment. You can view and create parts in the Part Number Master application. Configuration-managed parts are generated automatically when you create models.

Inventory of parts

Parts are available in the Inventory application, where you can record storeroom balance, condition, inventory costs, reorder details, and other management information for parts.

The following activities help to manage parts:
  • Identify and track equipment that is associated with a rotable part.
  • Identify and track parts that have a related configuration-managed part record.
  • List all aircraft or pieces of equipment for which a configuration-managed part is listed as a subassembly or a consumable part.
  • Create default parts for fuel, replenishments, and munitions if you plan to manage these parts in your inventory.
  • View the receiving and inspection line records for a storeroom and a part on the History tab.

Issue and transfer of parts

In the Issues and Transfers application, you can issue parts and tools to a work order, to a location, to an aircraft or piece of equipment, or against a general ledger account either within a site or across sites within an organization. You can define the part, the model, and the configuration that is associated with an aircraft or piece of equipment that you issue.

You can transfer parts and tools from one storeroom to another, either within the same site, across sites in an organization, or across organizations. When you transfer parts between storerooms, the storeroom balances are adjusted automatically. You can also return parts and tools to a storeroom, but only if they are in the same site. You can perform transfers within your organization without an internal purchase order. Transfers to a different organization require an internal purchase order, and the organizations must share part set.

Part number masters

In the Part Number Master application, you can create parts and associate them with master task cards. You specify applicability information and define interchangeable parts and rules, associated technical publications, storerooms, vendors, price books, and part assembly structures. You can indicate whether engineering rules are specified in the model for a part number.

You also specify the format of the serial numbers for the part, and you can specify serial number ranges that use this format. The Models application uses the serial numbers and serial range expressions to establish configuration rules for models and configurations of models. The Aircraft application or Equipment application uses the serial numbers and serial range expressions to validate aircraft or equipment configurations by using those configuration rules.

Examples of serial formats

To specify the format for a serial number, the letter A represents alphabetic characters, the number 9 represent numbers, and any special characters can represent separators. The following examples show a valid format and an invalid format:

  • A-9999 is a valid serial format.
  • X-9999 is not a valid serial format because it contains the letter X.

Examples of serial range expressions

All serial numbers in a serial range must be in a valid serial format. You can specify multiple serial numbers and serial ranges at the same time by using the following construction:

  • To specify multiple individual serial numbers, separate them with a comma and no space, such as A-0001,A-0100,A-2020.
  • To specify a range of serial numbers, separate the first and last number of the range with two periods and no spaces, such as A-2001...A-2999.
  • To specify a combination of individual numbers and ranges, separate the entries with a comma and no space. You can enter numbers and ranges in any order, such as A-0001,A-0100,A-2001...A-2999,A-4001...A-4999.