Product Maintenance Overview

Use Product Maintenance to create product records for all of your inventory. Product records include all information necessary for purchasing, selling, and maintaining your inventory.

For example, you can include all information in a product record from the units of measure in which a product can be purchased and sold, to its hazard information, to the branches that stock it.

In addition to creating product records, use Product Maintenance to do the following:

Create product kits with multiple components sold together as one unit. For example, the ABC Kitchen Sink product kit contains all the components making up a kitchen sink – sink, faucet, and hot and cold taps.

Create product families with groups of products that are often sold together and which provide you with mix-and-match options during order taking. For example, a sink can belong to a product family that includes several different styles and colors of sinks, faucets, and tap sets. When a customer orders a sink in the product family, you can offer them one of several colors in the same style, or let them know which types of faucets match that sink.

Create product lifecycles to manage moving inventory in and out of your warehouse. For example, you can create a lifecycle titled 180 Days' Supply for products for which you are currently carrying 180 days supply.

Add MSDS information or MTR information for product records
Define product dimensions for products such as steel studs.

Use the Inventory Inquiries associated with Product Maintenance to manage your inventory. Inventory Inquiries provide you with information such as product availability, product sales history, and product projections.