General information can be found under Chapter 5, Strategic Parts Management .

The administration of the ERP functionality is closely interlinked with PARTlinkManager. See Section 5.14, “Manual data administration ” and Section 5.7, “ Set up ERP environment ”.

Some functions of PARTadmin and PARTlinkManager overlap. In PARTadmin the user-role reference is given. Role-independent settings are made in PARTlinkManager.

The user role concept is used to control parts selection in the PARTdataManager is controlled.

Which functions are added in PARTdataManager with ERP functionality is described under Section 2.1.11, “PARTdataManager – ERP/PDM extensions ” in PARTsolutions - User.