Manufacturers' Items
Inventory Control lets you associate additional item numbers with the items in your inventory.
The main purpose of adding these "alias" item numbers is to let you associate bar codes with your inventory items. Manufacturers' item numbers are automatically translated to your inventory item numbers when you enter them in item number fields in the Inventory Control, Order Entry, or Purchase Orders programs.
You add manufacturers' item numbers using the Manufacturers' Items form in I/C Items and Price Lists folder. The program has no limit to the number associated with each item number.
Note: Manufacturers' item codes also provide a unit of measure, so you can assign different codes for single items, a box, and a pallet.
You can create several different item coding systems for the same inventory items.
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Decide what bar coding schemes you want to use. UPC codes are specific to manufacturers' items.
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If creating shortcut aliases, design an easily-remembered, logical coding scheme.
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