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- Stocked items
- Kits and Assemblies (to n levels) including JIT (to 3 levels deep)
- Configurable Products configured at time of sale including stock and services options
- Perishable Items - with expiry dates and batch numbers
- Reverse BOM items (eg meat processing)
- Dual Unit of Measure items (eg meat in KG and Each)
- Serialised items
- Clothing - colour size style
- Manufactured items - both internally and externally manufactured
- Services
- Non Stocked items
- Parent items (holding shared information across a product family)
- Owned by others (eg supplier or customer)
All types of items share
- Can be sold on the Webstore or the Customer Portal and have icons, images and web html held at the article level.
- Are members of Article categories that are hierarchical and can cross across Brands from different suppliers - see Article Categories
- Can be supplied by a single suppler/supplier Factory or multiple suppliers
- Can be linked to one of the Brands for reporting and analysis purposes
- can be imported directly into the system making it much easier to enter large volumes (eg a seasonal range) of all information including cost prices.
- Can be linked to Seasons or have individual availability dates
- Can be linked to Promotions
- Article Status includes Proposed, Active, Run Out and Archived
- Can be linked to MSDS documents or through Suppliers to Certificates (eg: Organic Food Growers Certifications)
- Warrantee durations
- The ability to Add New Fields that are tracked and reported on Articles
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- Stocked articles have weights, sizes, packing factors (for Cartonising process) shipping UOM and selling UOM
- Can be flagged as requiring special locations (such as freezers) for storage - see Warehouses and Stock LocationLocationss and Warehouse Module
- Have sell rates (calculated over standard or unique number of days), min days of stock levels, PO to delivery days override, useby horizon days, min supplier expiry days override
- Scarce stock can be allocated to Level 1 customers in priority to Level 2 customers with sharing or manual allocations
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- Stock Turns report - stock turn values at warehouse, Category and Brand level and down to SKU level
- Stock value reports - value by warehouse and across the system
- Where used recall reports - to find where suppliers batches ended up
- Aging Stock - risk into the bin
- Short stock - risk of runout
- Maximum shipment of Scarce stock - to maximise partial fulfilment of orders eg: end of season runout stock