Creating Supplier ID's

The first step in populating tables for organization data is to create Supplier ID's. The SKB uses a classification-instance (ID's) approach for data modeling. Therefore the ID's must be unique and start with the appropriate characters for the classification.

Characters

Classifications

Ind-

Industry

Prod-

Product Classification

Orient-

Orientation

CSpec-

Construction Specification

Liq-

Liquid

MatMin-

Minimum Required Material

Examples of characters for classifications.

Note: Supplier IDs are not visible in the Selector.

To enter Supplier ID's:
    1. In the navigation tree, open the organization data folder .

    2. In the data manager, click on the table tab to display the table which to populate.

 

    1. In the table, simply click in a cell under the Supplier ID column and type in an ID. (Avoid all capital letters.) Copy and paste can also be used to populate this information.

To view examples of Supplier ID's for a particular table, click on the links below:

 

    1. Click  to save changes.