Often one IPN is matched to multiple approved parts (with different manufacturers and MPNs). In that case, simply add a row (with the same IPN, but possibly different Manufacturer , MPN or Description) for each part alternative to the .csv.

If an MPN as well as a manufacturer is provided, we will only match parts that correspond to both. That is, we will not match a part to an IPN in cases where we find a part with the right MPN but the manufacturer is different. If no manufacturer is provided we will match all parts with the corresponding MPN.

In the future, we also plan to automatically match generic parts (like manufacturer free resistors or capacitors) from the descriptions provided for your IPNs, so if your IPN represents a manufacturer-free part specify "Free" for Manufacturer , put the specification of the technical parameters into the Description and the package into the Package column.

We often see EMS that don't have this information readily available in their ERP, but instead just have a long text description field that might contain one or more manufacturers and MPNs: in that case just append all of your relevant descriptions into one long string that you put into the Description column. If you have a "short" description and a "long" description of your IPN, you can add two rows with the same IPN and add the short description in the first row and the long description in the second.

If you only provide descriptions and no manufacturers and MPNs, we will not be able to match parts automatically. But Luminovo provides functionality to manually match parts and IPNs after your upload. You will be able to do a search on the descriptions you provided, just as you can probably search for your IPNs in your ERP today. The good thing: once you've matched the parts and IPN in Luminovo once, we will remember the match and use it for your next BOM.

We assume the .csv that you upload reflects the up-to-date list of IPNs from your ERP. That means if you add a new row with a new MPN in a new upload, we will add that IPN. If you remove an IPN from the .csv we will delete the IPN in Luminovo. If you change the MPN, Manufacturer or Description provided for an IPN (e.g. because you added or removed an approved part), we will delete all automatic and manual matches made from the old part specification for that IPN and start the automatic matching of parts to IPNs anew.

We currently only support one inventory (that means you can only have one row per IPN in the csv). You can either add your different inventories together in the available and total stock or choose the most important inventory you want to integrate with Luminovo.

Open the terminal and paste the commands with your credentials

Open command prompt (CMD) and enter:

Uploading CSV files provides little debugging possibilities. When uploading your CSV files to Luminovo's server, you can see, if the upload worked in general. We process the files you have uploaded only once/day. On the next days, you will be able to understand if uploading your data worked by checking the last update date in your Luminovo Portal.

There could be multiple reasons for this. Let us walk through the most common ones:

Uploading components and inventory data from different stock locations is only possible via Luminovo's API. Learn more about the API connection in the corresponding section: API Integration with Luminovo.