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By: Fashion Incubator » Do you need your own bar codes?

Fashion Incubator » Do you need your own bar codes? — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:17:42 +0000

[...] threatened, here’s part four of the SKU/UPC series. Catch up with parts one, two, and three as needed. This entry is to let you know there may be a crucial problem that affects small [...]

By: Selling to department stores pt.1

Selling to department stores pt.1 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:52:44 +0000

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By: UPCs, SKUs, Styles and Other Numbers

UPCs, SKUs, Styles and Other Numbers — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:29:01 +0000

[...] August, Kathleen wrote a series of entries on product numbers (1, 2, 3, 4). I am going to take that thread a bit further, focusing on the record keeping and relationship [...]

By: Eric H

Eric H — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:35:18 +0000

DesignerElla;

Yes. That’s covered at length in Kathleen’s book. The link is at right.

By: DesignerElla

DesignerElla — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:17:21 +0000

Must the style numbers and parts you’ve shown as numbers BE numbers and not letters? Thanks!

By: sfriedberg

sfriedberg — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:04:26 +0000

Celeste, I don’t have it ready yet, but I owe a blog entry (real soon now) on exactly that recordkeeping. David S is right, you may need to keep track of multiple SKU’s for one product, one SKU for each big retailer.

By: celeste

celeste — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:46:31 +0000

So we need a SKU, a style number, a RN number, possibly a UPC code, and then whats this about the EPC (eletronic product code)?
One must be excelent record keepers, thats for sure.

But, really, do you have on your site or can you put together a list of the must have books we should own?
thanks

By: Weekend Reading for Mom Entrepreneurs | The Mogul Mom

Weekend Reading for Mom Entrepreneurs | The Mogul Mom — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:57:57 +0000

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By: David S

David S — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:10:30 +0000

A SKU is a “stock keeping unit”. It gets assigned and used by whoever is doing the stock keeping. The same item can have different SKUs at each level of the supply chain. (and mulitple items can have the same SKU, if you have multiple sources for a commodity product. Or you might not. It depends on how you keep stock… )
Sometimes a retailer will use their vendor’s SKUs (since they often order by them), sometimes they’ll have their own system. Sometimes the unit of stock of distributor is different from the unit of stock of the retailer. (Consider a grocery store: their distributor sells them canned soup by the case of cans, but they sell them to us one at a time. The distributor has no need to keep track of individual cans, so they wouldn’t have a SKU for a can of soup, just for a case.) It’s not unheard of for big retailers to insist that their goods have their SKUs marked on them by the supplier.