Parts & Vendors™ Conversion

Aligni is a web-based component management system that is similar to Trilogy Design's Parts & Vendors™ (P&V) PC-based software. Aligni offers many advantages over P&V, but we understand that your existing data is very important. To ease your migration to Aligni, we have created a database conversion tool and will perform your conversion free of charge.

Due to the differences in how Aligni and P&V store data, there are some things you should be aware of before the conversion is done. These differences are highlighted below. We are constantly trying to improve the accuracy of the converter, so if you have any suggestions, please let us know.

Note that conversion is done as a courtesy and the results are not guaranteed. But you will have the opportunity to browse your data and check it out!

Manufacturers and Vendors

Aligni requires that every part be associated with a manufacturer and that every quote be associated with a vendor. P&V does not have these requirements. Therefore:

• A generic manufacturer "P&V Unknown Manufacturer" is created. Parts that are not associated with a manufacturer fall under the umbrella of this manufacturer.
• A generic vendor "P&V Unknown Vendor" is created. Quotes that are not associated with a vendor fall under the umbrella of this vendor.
• When multiple parts are associated with the same manufacturer's part number, only one part will be created in the Aligni database.
• Linecard translation is fully supported.

Parts

Aligni requires that all manufacturer part numbers be unique within the scope of a particular manufacturer.

• When multiple parts are associated with the same manufacturer's part number, only one part will be created in the Aligni database. An error is flagged when a repeat occurs so that we can notify you of the problem.
• Quotes are converted.
• Vendor part numbers are converted.

Part Lists

Part lists are converted.

Notes

Notes are converted.

Contacts

Contacts are converted as notes.

Aligni provides a richer context for contacts. For example, contacts get their own address, phone numbers, and email addresses within Aligni and each contact can be associated with one vendor (an account manager, for example) and one or more manufacturers (sales reps). Because of all this new data, you'll probably want to enter the information anew.

Units

Units are converted.

Inventory

Inventory is converted to a generic inventory location.