Products - Understanding Products on Zupply

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Products - Understanding Products on Zupply

On Zupply there are a few concepts we need to understand that makes Zupply a powerful product management tool. Here are the main concepts:

• Product
• Product Code
• Line Item
• Line item Code (SKU)
• Default Unit
• Unit Weight

Products

On Zupply, Products are built to capture all the ways that you buy and sell the product. And as we enable inventory of products, we allow our users to build their products so that all these variations of how we buy/sell them are handled in the one product.

For example, if you buy/sell Tomatoes then we need to define the “units of measure” of each way we buy/sell Tomatoes.

So in the example of Tomatoes, we have:

1. Box
2. Kilogram

So in Zupply we have the PRODUCT type being Tomatoes, and the LINE ITEMS being Box and Kilogram.

We identify these three types by:

1. Product = Code
2. Box = Line Item 1
3. Kilogram = Line Item 2

Default Unit

We have another concept called “Default Unit”.

• The Default unit identifies the BUYING unit of the product. So in the example of the Tomatoes, Box (Line Item 1) will be the Default unit as that is the way that we buy the product from the markets. Then we can sell them in Boxes and Kilograms.
• The Default Unit also is the main unit of where we draw all the stock from for sales orders. So when we sell kilograms we draw that stock from the Default unit.

Unit Weight

Once we have set up our products, and defined our Default Unit, we want inventory to tell us how much total inventory is in stock. We use the term Unit Weight to calculate the inventory. In the example of the Product Tomato the box weighs 10kg - so we can sell a box or 10 individual kilograms.

Therefore:

• Line Item 1 AND Default Unit is BOX , and the unit weight is 10.
• Line Item 2 is the kilogram and in this equation the kilogram equals 1.

Meaning every time we sell 11 kilograms stock will be used by 1.1 boxes.

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