Merchandising is the definition of product structures and the associated data required
for managing products in the supply chain.
- A product definition equates to a Stock Keeping Unit (SKU).
- Product definitions are automatically derived from the specification of styles,
attributes and bills of materials.
- The Mail Order product definitions also provide the product data for the
Retail and Ecommerce sales channels.
- Selected Merchandising features include:
- Sale of stocked and non-stocked items
- Default sales price by unit of measure
- VAT inclusive and exclusive pricing
- User defined fields for product searching and analysis
- Upsell and cross sell text
- Utilisation of product documentation external to OPTIONS
- Alternative selling codes for bar coding, catalogue publication, etc
- Catalogue positioning in terms of page number, percentage of page used, type of
product shot, etc, for analysing sales performance
- Supplier definitions
- Multiple costing methods
- Mandatory or optional product customisation with associated costs
- Multi-level bill of materials
- Association of products by user defined attributes to create styles, which optimise
cross selling opportunities, management of available stock, and purchasing
- The following are examples of the data maintained and accessed from the Product
Header.
Click image for an example of a Product Header, which is common to all products
Click image for an example of data associated with products on the web site
Click image for an example of the different types of product text
Click image for an example of developing multiple related product definitions from a Style.