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I’m wondering, in other companies, who is responsible for setting up the finished goods part masters in the ERP system and how that process is initiated? In my company, this has historically fallen on the engineering project manager. He/she assigns a part number and waits for marketing to respond with description, final pack-out qty, UPC, selling markets, etc. After receiving this, the engineer sets up the part in the system along with weights and measures. The problem is, there are so many fields that are controlled by some many other functions (purchasing, planning, sales, etc.) it seems there must be a better way to do this to assure that each team member agrees or even takes part in the product set-up or verifies accuracy. Also, at what point in the product development cycle is this best done? Any ideas are appreciated!
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