Link, view, and delete part contacts
Part contacts are approved vendors and approved manufacturers that supply the agency with specific parts. You can link one or more contacts to a part and then use this information to interact with vendors and manufacturers for pricing, re-orders, and questions about the parts they supply.
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From the Part inventory page, find and open the part with which you want to work.
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Select the Part contact tab.
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Select Look Up to search for contacts, enter search criteria, and select Submit. For a description of the fields, see Part contact fields.
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Select the check boxes next to the contacts that you want to link to the selected part.
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Select Submit.
It may be necessary to speak with the vendor or manufacturer about a re-order. You can easily view the contact’s name and phone number from the part contact list page. For information about updating the details of a part contact, see your system administrator.
To view the details of a part contact
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From the Part inventory page, find and open the part with which you want to work.
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Select the Part contact tab.
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Open the part contact that you want to view.
When you delete a part contact as described in this section, you are not actually deleting the contact record. You are deleting the association between the part and contact. For information about deleting contact records from the master list, see your system administrator.
To delete a reference to a part contact
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From the Part inventory page, find and open the part with which you want to work.
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Select the Part contact tab.
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Select the check box next to the part contacts that you want to dissociate.
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Select Delete.