topic Re: What is the purpose of the “Supplier Life Cycle State” - still selectable in MPN creation in Windchill

What is the purpose of the “Supplier Life Cycle State” - still selectable in MPN creation

ASodeik — Thu, 06 May 2021 15:55:11 GMT

What is the intended purpose of the “Supplier Life Cycle State”

Supplier is set to state = Cancelled

Still findable and more worse selectable?

Why can it be searched for and still be selected and assigned?

at MPN creation:

Re: What is the purpose of the “Supplier Life Cycle State” - still selectable in MPN creation

jvonzastrow1 — Fri, 07 May 2021 10:28:59 GMT

Hi @ASodeik

With configuration of policy (ACL) you can remove users access to parts with Cancel state.

You could also configure a business rules when parts are released using change management. The business rule will check stated of "related" parts.

Re: What is the purpose of the “Supplier Life Cycle State” - still selectable in MPN creation

ASodeik — Fri, 07 May 2021 10:59:37 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply - the answer helps to go forward.

Out of the box the supplier life cycle state has no functionality? Correct?

Andreas

Re: What is the purpose of the “Supplier Life Cycle State” - still selectable in MPN creation

jvonzastrow1 — Mon, 10 May 2021 05:14:13 GMT

Hi Andreas

I am not sure what you mean with "no functionality". As I see, it is the same with other objects: CAD documents, wtdocuments, wtparts, ... Out of the box users have access to read objects in all states. Nothing prevent you from releasing a BOM with Obsolete/Cancel components at a lower level in the structure. This is where Business rules come into place.

It also depend om how you setup roles and ACL. Adding users to Product Managers they can do anything 😉

Johannes

Re: What is the purpose of the “Supplier Life Cycle State” - still selectable in MPN creation

ASodeik — Mon, 10 May 2021 07:51:11 GMT

thanks a lot Johannes for your help - I will take it into our support to get ACLs setup.

Andreas