Here is the scenario - we use use unique numbers for all raw materials - that we buy it from Vendor, Distributor, Supplier and manufacturer
for e.g. say Sea-gate hard-drive - it has manufacturer partner say "SEA-1200"
We currently assign a unique number for that item in our legacy system say comp-SEA-1000.
our customer refer to that item as "CUS-SEA-1000"
vendor transact with us with their part-number "VEN-SEA-1000"
Distributer and supplier transact with us with their unique partner number "DIST-SEA-1000" & "SUP-SEA-1000"
All the parties here refer to same manufacturer item.
Question: I believe we can track manufacturer item number for a given product number that we uniquely create in AX - say SEA-1000.
At the customer and vendor level, we can refer this internal partner number to refer to their respective part number. It is the case in GP 2010.
I just don't know where and how we would define this in AX?
item A is a defined in our AX as internal part number that same item can be referenced across customer, vendor and should be able to map to their respective item numbers. How to set it and what we need to consider if any from reporting and / or forecasting, planning perspective.