[thelist] SKU Numbers?

[Megan Holbrook]

Burhan Khalid wrote:

>   I'm looking at resources on generating SKU numbers.  Is there a 
> predefined format? Some industry standard? When do you generate a new 
> SKU for a product?  I've been doing some research, and my understanding 
> can be summarized in this example:
> 
>   Item being sold : Widget (SKU#1)
>                     Red Widget (SKU#2)
>                     Green Widget (SKU#3)
>                     Green Widget with lights (SKU#4)
> 
>   Basically, for each variation of the product, there is a new SKU. Is 
> this correct? Thanks for any information.

You might also consider applying for a UCC company prefix so that your 
SKUs will have a unique identifier if you are planning to have the 
products available through multiple channels (note: this area of 
business is not at all my specialty, but something I ran into a while 
ago while doing research, and someone else may have better information 
about whether this is necessary or not.)

http://www.uc-council.org/ean_ucc_system/stnds_and_tech/auto_id.html

HTH, M.
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