SIMMS Express Inventory Software lets you take full control of your inventory, sales and purchasing
A SKU is a string of alpha and numeric characters or number that uniquely identify a product. For this reason, SKUs are often called part numbers, product numbers, and product identifiers. The SIMMS SKU Configurator can be used to establish the composition of the SKU number.
A SKU may consist of some universal reference like a UPC code or supplier part number or may be a unique identifier used by a specific retailer or store. For example, one company may use the ten-character identifier supplied by the manufacturer as the SKU of an external hard drive. Another company may use a proprietary six-digit number as the SKU to identify the part. Many retailers use their own SKU numbers to label products so they can track their inventory using their own custom database system.
Selection of some characters from the item’s manufacturer or vendor, category, subcategory and/or vendor’s/manufacturer’s part number will add them to the SKU number’s format. Users may also choose that an auto-generated numerical sequence is part of the SKU. SIMMS has the capability to assign a customized SKU number to every inventory item, allowing users to automatically assign a particular product’s item number based on a SKU formula that can be devised using the SIMMS SKU Configurator.