Main Concepts

This section describes the most important terms and concepts used in Procurement Intelligence. Data available in Procurement Intelligence is based on clusters and universe defined in OnePart. For more details on how parts are clustered and standardized in OnePart, see Installation and Setup | Configure | Information Intelligence | OnePart | OnePart Reduce | Using OnePart Reduce | Use case - Standardization.

Note: To be able to display the part details and images and/or open parts directly in OnePart, your OnePart instance must also be running.

This page discusses:

Cluster

A cluster is a group of similar parts.

Universe

A universe is a group of clusters.