To create a style item:You can use the same process to create style items as you do to create standard items. Once you create the style item, you have the option to immediately begin the SKU item creation flow from the style item's Overview page. In addition, you can create style and SKU items using the following methods:
Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet (see: Importing Items Using a Spreadsheet)
Item Open Interface table (see: Managing Item Imports)
Import Workbench (see: Overview of Inbound Product Data Synchronization and Data Quality Management)
To create a style item:Create an item as described in Creating New Items with the following exceptions.
Select Style.
Caution: Once you create a style item, you cannot deselect Style. You also cannot change another type of item to a style item later. You can only create style items during the item creation process.
Optionally, select one or more templates that set the operational and user-defined attributes for the item.
Additional Information: Each template selected is applied in the order listed. Templates applied latest override the attribute values of templates applied earlier.
In the Create Item: Enter Number/Description page, enter the item and item description.
Note: The system ignores the item number and description generation instructions specified by the item catalog category. Style item numbers and descriptions are user defined even if the item catalog category specifies 'Function Generated' or 'Inherited From Parent'.
Enter the following attributes, keeping in mind how the values entered effect the SKU items based on this style item.
Variant Attributes
The variant attribute groups listed default from the item catalog category selected. Variant attribute groups can have multiple value sets assigned to each group. For each group, select the value set to use when creating SKUs based on this style item.
Attention: You cannot select variant data types for Date, Date and Time, and Translatable Text.
Primary Attributes
Select the primary attribute values that you want the SKUs to either inherit or receive the default values.
Attention: Verify that the following operational (transaction) attributes are set to No since style items are not transactable or stockable:
Inventory Item
BOM Allowed
Build in WIP
Customer Orders Enabled
Internal Orders Enabled
Invoice Enabled
Transactable
Purchasable
Stockable
The default value for these attributes is No, unless a template applied in the previous step sets their value to Yes.
Click Finish. The item Overview page displays.
To create SKU items from a style item:Navigate to the Overview page for a style item.
In the SKUs region, for each variant attribute, select the attribute value that you want to assign to the new SKU.
Suggestion: If you want to create a SKU for more than one variant attribute value, then select All for one or more attributes.
Click Create. The Create SKUs: Select Variants page appears.
For each variant attribute, select the values for which you want to create SKUs.
Note: You must select at least one value for each variant attribute.
Click Add Selected Variants to create the list of SKUs based on the variant attributes selected.
Select Engineering Item if you want to create each SKU as an engineering item.
Leave this box blank to create the SKUs as production items.
Enter an item number and description for each SKU.
These fields already contain values if the item catalog category specifies function generated item numbers and descriptions. See: Defining Item Numbers and Descriptions.
Optionally, click Show in the Details column to change the primary attribute values for each SKU if these values defaulted from the style item.
If the SKU inherits the primary attribute values, then you cannot modify them.
Caution: The system only considers SKUs with a Trade Item Unit Descriptor (TIUD ) = Each or Base Unit for pack creation. See: Creating a SKU Packaging Hierarchy
Click Apply.
You receive a message saying that a batch has been submitted for SKU Creation. the message includes a link to the concurrent request ID.
To create SKU items after a new variant attribute value is added to the value set:Using the example of a shirt style in a retail clothing business, suppose the retailer plans to introduce a new shirt color, magenta, for spring. After the new color is added to the value set, you can create new SKUs for the magenta color.
Follow the steps to create SKU items from a style item as described above. The Create SKUs: Select Variants page, SKU Combinations region has a column titled "SKU Exists". If no checkmark exists in this column for the new SKU combination, you can create the new SKU. Enter the new SKU description and item number (unless the item number is sequence generated), then click Apply.
Update all SKU item operational attributes as necessary to make them stockable and transactable. You can manually update these attributes after SKU item creation from the SKU item's Overview page or you can perform a mass update. See: