Inventory: Alternate Barcodes & SKUs

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Overview

The Inventory: Alternate Barcodes & SKUs screen is where you can create, view, or edit, alternate barcodes or SKUs associated with a given product.

This feature is helpful when the same product is sold at various Web sites using different barcodes or SKUs at each location. By entering all of the different SKUs that are used at various web sites (shopping carts) into the Alternate Barcodes & SKUs tab for the given product, Monsoon Order Manager can recognize orders for those Web SKUs and translate them into the Primary product SKU as orders are imported. (LocalSKU)

The original SKU used at the Web site is stored in a field called Web SKU, which is visible at the Process Orders screen by scrolling to the right in the Order Details section of the screen.

Likewise, if the same item is purchased from multiple suppliers and each supplier uses a different barcode for the item, each of the supplier barcodes can be entered on the Alternate Barcodes & SKUs tab of the product record. When the different supplier barcodes are scanned, Monsoon Order Manager recognizes each of them as the Primary product (LocalSKU).

Beginning in Monsoon OMS V7.011, SubSKUs can have Alternate SKUs assigned to them.

Alternate SKUs cannot be selected as line items when placing a Manual Order or when revising line items on orders.

This screen is accessed via Main Menu>Manage My Inventory>View & Manage My Inventory>Alternate Barcodes & SKUs.

Description of the screen

Inventory: Alternate Barcodes & SKUs

Alternate Barcodes

this box contains any alternate barcodes that have been defined for the current product
refer to topic Alternate SKUs for more information

Delete

select an entry in the Alternate Barcodes list and select the Delete button to disassociate the selected barcode from the current product record

Alternate SKUs

this box contains a list of Alternate SKUs that have been associated with the current product record

Add

select this to define a new Alternate SKU

Edit

select an Alternate SKU from the list and select this to edit the properties of the Alternate SKU

Delete

select an entry in the list and select this to remove the selected Alternate SKU from the list and disassociate it from the current product record

Replaces this old SKU

if the current product record is taking the place of another SKU that is no longer available or discontinued, enter the SKU that is being retired into this field

Folder

select this to use the Search Inventory/Select a Product screen to locate the SKU that is being retired
this button is inactive unless the inventory record is opened for editing (select Edit)

Associated Shopping Carts

alternate SKUs can be associated with a particular instance of a shopping cart system for which inventory synchronization is enabled
double-click on a shopping cart definition to associate or disassociate it with the current Alternate SKU

Product Data Override

the fields in this section are used to override the values of these fields found in the Primary SKU record
if no value is entered in these fields, the Alternate SKU will inherit the values of the Primary SKU record

Additional information

Advanced Inventory Search

Alternate SKUs

Created: 1/11/11

Revised: 8/11/15

Published: 08/19/15