Product Maintenance

This section deals with the product creation and maintenance, all the fields within the product form, what they all do and how you can use them.

There is a considerable amount of information in this section so you can use the quick links below which take you directly to the product maintenance form.

What is a product?

A product is an item you offer for sales whether you purchase the item or a substance which is manufactured or refined for sale. Products are used throughout Commence for purchasing and sales.

Creating a Product

You can access this through the product icon on the menus, there is one located in the Purchasing creation menu and there are a number of creation options available on the Stock creation menu.

This is the icon you would click on to create a new product.

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Methods of Creating a new Product

You can only create a new product by the following methods :

• manually entering the product

• using dynamic product code setup

• using the replicate facility

What needs to be set up before I create a product?

The following items are mandatory that the user has to setup

1. Producer

The following items should already be setup within the system.

• Country Code

• Duty Code

• Product Type

• Commodity Code

• Region Codes

• Group

• Type

• Style

Optional Items you may wish to use, if you do you need to set them up.

1. Product Variant

2. Supplier

Product Maintenance

Edit an existing Product by searching for it in the Navigation Pane under Maintenance \ Product.

Product Form

Please see the below screenshot of the Product forms General tab.

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For more details about the form and how to complete it then got o the Introduction and Header.

1. It is not possible to receive (land) any stock against a De-Listed product.

2. Product code lengths should be kept to 20 characters or less.

3. Changes made to the Product form will only affect new transactions for the product. For example, you are in the middle of entering an order and you decide to modify the product. You add it to the order (as a new line); be aware that you may get different results between the two lines using the same product code.