Talk:Stock-keeping unit
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[edit] Questions about SKU
Say you have a box of 20 units of part number 1A and a box of 5 units of part number 1A- is this one SKU or two? -Nick Answer: It would be two different SKU's.
Is it a generic concept in China? Thanks Peter
- How are stock keeping units formulated?
- Is there any generally accepted format for SKUs?
- Are SKUs unique in the world or just to a vendor?
- Is there a vendor-identifying prefix or suffix?
- Is there any standard or standards body relevant to SKUs?
- Would it be possible for company A to buy out company B and find that they have a range of identical SKUs for non-identical merchandise? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.16.96.33 (talk • contribs)
Also, we could do with more about how SKUs relate to UPCs / EANs.
- Do merchants use both?
- How do they co-ordinate them?
- Did SKUs come first?
- If not, why was there felt to be a need for SKUs, given UPCs?
— Johan the Ghost seance 20:14, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- This article is mainly about "SKU number/name", except in the "Consider this" section, where the description of the SKU consept that separate "SKU" goes into the main theory that confuses people.
- The article should firstly be explained in theory: The example with the balls, that are concept with the ball boxes, explained that the stock contains 220 boxes, but only three SKUs, is right to the point, albeit a bit too complicated for the common non-merchant man: Perhaps the fact that there are loose balls inside the boxes confuse?
- A better example is perhaps a shipment of DVD films: 300x Star Wars Episode 1, 400x of Star Wars Episode 2 and 200x of Star Wars Episode 3 is undoubtedly both 900 _films_ and 3 _SKUs_.
- Once the concept is described,naming and principles on that should be described as well as it is the article as it is now
- Further referances should be made to Forecast Keeping Units and other variants. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.70.78.190 (talk • contribs) (I reformatted a bit for readability. — Johan the Ghost seance 13:46, 22 May 2006 (UTC))
[edit] trereree?
Surely a mistake, yes? I removed it. Jeff
[edit] SKU as product line
Various definitions (e.g. here and here) define SKU differently, as the product, not the identifier. I think this is a less common use of the term, but it should be clarified here. JulesH 23:46, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
