For inventory parts, it is often useful to assign code to parts of the person responsible for buying the parts. This makes it easy for receiving to resolve any issues with incoming material, and it makes it easy to divide up the workloads in purchasing. Also, several reports are available which can be sorted by the buyer code. One valuable report is the order actions necessary to be taken as a result of running MRP. The buyers may have a list of only those parts affecting their own workload, and not be burdened with looking at all of the rest of the actions. Also, shortages may be better resolved with the inclusion of a buyer code for the part number.