SKU What does it mean? Electricity supplier warehouse management SKU meaning Detailed
- 2016-09-21 14:53
- Electricity supplier ? delivery center ? Store Warehouse Management
? ? ? ?SKU = Stock Keeping Unit (SKUs). That is out of stock measurement units may be in the piece, boxes, trays and other units. This SKU is for a large supermarket chain DC (distribution center) necessary logistics management methods. It has now been extended to a unified product number abbreviation, for each product are equipped with unique SKU number. A single product: a commodity, when their brand, model, configuration, class, color, packaging capacity, unit, production date, shelf life, uses, price, origin and other attributes and other commodities do not exist at the same time, can be called a a single product.
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? ? ? ?There is a thing called SKU in the electricity business operations or warehouse management. What is the SKU? Explanation given by many people: SKU is a unit of inventory. That literal literal Stock Keeping Unit. Foggy, puzzled. Some people say SKU operators and warehouse management and inventory out of inventory measurement units saved. Little seems, may not its details.
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? ? ? ?In the electricity business operations and warehouse management SKU contains information in three areas:
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? ? ? ?1, from the point of view of goods, SKU refers to a single kind of commodity, their goods property has been determined. As long as the goods are different attributes, then that is a different SKU. Property includes many general understanding of goods attributes include: brand, model, configuration, class, color, composition, uses. That same goods as long as the people be saved, there are different ways of management, sales and service, then it needs to be defined for different SKU.
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? ? ? ?For example: iPone4 and iPone4s different SKU; with the iPone4s, white and black, also belong to different SKU; with iPone4s is white, but one is 16G, 32G is another memory, they still belong to different SKU.
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? ? ? ?2, from a business management perspective, SKU also contains information on goods packaging unit. For example: SKU # 123 means a 330ml bottle of stout (bottle for); SKU # 456 means a 330ml bottle of stout (to mention as a unit, six bottles of 1 mention); SKU # 789 means a 330ml bottle of stout ( a box as a unit, 1 box of 24 bottles). Since the units of measurement (packing unit) is different for the business management needs, should be attributed to different SKU, of course, you can have unit conversion algorithms to assist the conversion SKU. Another example: There is a double unit of socks is a SKU. If other parameters are the same, just to play as a unit labeled package (12 pairs), according to package sales, they also belong to different SKU.
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? ? ? ?3, from information systems and cargo coding perspective, SKU just a code. Different kind of goods (trade name) have a different code (SKU #). And this encoding defined commodity in one to one association, so that we can follow the different SKU data to record and analyze inventory and sales. When you use the WMS or ERP system, you will find every SKU coding is accurate product information meaning.
Generally speaking SKU in a system (for example: a company or factory) internal customize and use. Cross-system need to be redefined or do SKU conversion.
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? ? ? You are more aware than in the past some of it?