Printed Packaging Product - customer specific print

When sourcing a specialty printed packaging product for a customer - it is common that the supplier will supply a finished printed product and source the materials required

Normally the printing batch is greater than the customer wants to receive immediately - hence

1. The order on the supplier will normally cover a number of orders from the customer
2. Stock is required to be held in the warehouse
3. The item cannot be sold to other customers (or outside a defined customer group)
4. A deposit is required - to avoid having unsalable stock (cannot sell a printed product to another customer normally)
5. Customer may want "Supply until asked to stop" or "Supply one batch worth and check before ordering more"

In Summary

1. Create a new SKU for the printed product (normally copy from an existing SKU)
   1. Supplier to be the printer
   2. Lead time to be the required lead time
   3. NOT an Assembly unless
      1. Do you purchase Cartons and supply Sleeves (or inners).  If so then the carton is a Pack with the component the sleeve.
      2. eg: Carton of coffee cups / sleeve of coffee cups - are two different SKU's, no default buy price on sleeve, no supplier SKU on sleeve.
   4. Default buy price to be the price per SKU paid to the supplier
   5. Default Sell Price to be the price per SKU to the customer
   6. Make it a private SKU - linked to a single company or to a group of companies
2. Decide the status of the SKU
   1. If "Supply until asked to stop" = then ACTIVE  (note - production size must be blank)
   2. if "Supply one batch and check before ordering more" = then RUNOUT (production size must have a value)