Throughout our data, you will see ID and KEY fields (field names such as: xxx_ID -and- xxx_KEY). These are internally assigned identification numbers given by our system to a particular object (e.g. a vendor, a location, a purchase order, etc). These are Spring Systems internally assigned values which you would receive from our system, e.g. on a Purchase Order. You can use these ID’s or KEY’s to very distinctly identify an object when communicating with our system. If you don’t know the ID or KEY of the object, you can identify it back to us using a combination of other fields.
(NOTE: xxx_id are numeric (auto-incremented), xxx_key are auto-generated strings)