National Stock Number (NSN) as an Alternate Item Number in PeopleSoft FSCM

My company is a supplier of defense related products to the United States military and sometimes foreign militaries.
The Defense Logistics Agency of the Department of Defense assigns items IDs to material which the United States military buys, transports, stores and uses. These item IDs are called National Stock Numbers (NSN).
My company has a requirement to display (show) the NSN on shipping documents to any shipments for the United States military. Also, we internally in the company need to be able to search the items (and products) by NSN on various screens within Peoplesoft. We also need the ability to periodically load a csv file into peoplesoft to assign NSNs to item IDs.
We are on PeopleSoft version FSCM 8.9. Of course FSCM 8.9 does not have any build-in/delivered functionality to support NSNs. NATO also uses a similar idea called NATO Stock Number. Both the (National Stock Number and the NATO Stock Number) are 13 digits.
I reviewed the 9.1 Peoplebooks and there is no mention of NSN (NATO stock number or national stock number).
I have also reviewed the 9.2 Pre-Release Notes and there is no mention of NSN (NATO stock number or national stock number).
We have thought about using PROD_ITEM.PROD_FIELD_C30_A as a place to store NSNs. We are also considering MASTER_ITEM_TABLE.ITEM_FIELD_C30_A as a place to store NSNs. Please note that we need NSN for shippable products only.
I am looking for better ideas here or at least validate our idea for putting it in the fields discussed above. Also, if someone could give a reason for Product Item table vs Master Item table, which would be better?
Thanks in advance.
Mansoor H. Khan
Principal Programmer Analyst
Thales Communication Inc.
22605 Gateway Drive
Clarksburg, MD, 20871
Tel: 240 864 7747

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