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Vendor ID and S/N

Vendor ID and S/N

Vendor ID and S/N

(OP)
My QC manager wants our vendors to include their ID and a serial number in the part marking but has no plan for standardizing their ID or detailing the serializing process. This will lead to a lot of confusion when we look back at parts in stock. Does anyone know of a spec or some past experience that will help us get this done right?
Some of our vendors are small shops that don't have CAGE numbers so I can't use that system.
Thanks

RE: Vendor ID and S/N

I'm not sure of a specification for this, but your company should have some list of "approved vendors".  It might be as simple as assigning your approved vendors a number, and telling them to use the supplied number on the components they send to your company.

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RE: Vendor ID and S/N

If they supply partsa to the US government, they should have CAGE number assigned to them. Use that as it is unique for that vendor.

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Ben Loosli
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RE: Vendor ID and S/N

(OP)
Ben,
Please read my entire post; not all of our vendors have Cage Code numbers.
Thanks anyway

RE: Vendor ID and S/N

We just state in a note on the part drawing to mark our own part number, rev level and just a simple two or three digit initals to identifiy the fabricator of the part.

RE: Vendor ID and S/N

Maybe you can use a codebar generator

Pardal

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