Internal vs External Item Numbers in JDE - Looking for Advice

Hi All,

My company (single global instance of E1 9.2) is facing dual sourcing challenges currently where we are sourcing identical product from multiple different suppliers located in different countries.

As such i'm looking to see if anyone in the JDE community is running the concept of internal vs external item numbers? I've been researching ways to handle this in JDE and would love to hear about how other companies handle it.

The two challenges we are looking to address is keeping a single item number for our external customers but running multiple internal item numbers based upon country of origin to effectively track costs/duties etc. without blending them under a single item number. Any feedback about the approach you used and the pros/cons would be much appreciated.