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Client Part Number (CPN)

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Written by Shawn Bradley
10 February 2022

The unique identifier that each company assigns to an individual part or MPN. Each company will reference an MPN with a differnt CPN. Example CompanyA refers to MPN123 as CPNABC, while Company B refers to that same MPN123 as CPN789. This becomes the unique language that each companies uses for referning to the parts on thier Bill of Materials.

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