Nomenclature codes

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It is possible to structure a product code (or an asset code) so that it means something on its own.

For example, a food distributor could code its products as follows:

• 2 letters to designate the nature of the product, for example BS for beverage
• 3 letters to designate the type, for example ALC for alcoholic when it comes to a drink
• 2 digits to designate a subtype, for example 01 for white when it comes to an alcoholic beverage
• 3 letters for precision of the subtype, for example BUL when it is a white alcoholic drink with bubbles.

A BS-ALC-001-BUL-NEUVILLEBTR product could therefore designate a Brut Tradition from an excellent brand of Champagne (the separator is optional, we could have BSALC001BULNEUVILLEBTR)

This is useful for catalogs with a large number of products, but also for classifying numerous fixed assets (in this case, there is no specific identifier).

The general parameter allows you to define the number of hierarchical coding levels desired for the product code (between 1 and 7) as well as the possible separator (hyphen, dash bottom or underscore, slash or slash, star, etc.), and any code entry masks (you can specify, for example, that the 3rd level code will only contain numerical values).

Input masks can include:

• 9: for numeric characters
• L: alphabetic characters in capital letters
• l: lowercase alphabetical characters

You can mix it up, for example define a mask LL99lll, which would therefore contain two uppercase letters, two numbers, and three lowercase letters.

On this screen, the Nomenclature button allows you to display the product code nomenclature, a tree structure which describes the organization of the codifications.

When creating a new product, use the Generate BOM Code menu option from the context menu of the Product Code area

The screen below will be displayed, and will allow you:

• select the nomenclature options that apply
• to indicate the additional product code which will characterize the newly created product.

Upon validation, the new product code will be initialized.

When nomenclature management is activated, it is possible to display the nomenclature of any product from the context menu of the product table.

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