Process: Update product information

 

Flow

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Objective

Update an existing product within the master catalog.

 

Description

Businesses will periodically update product and pricing information based on new merchandising plans or updated product information from suppliers and manufacturer. Product updates can be the following:

• New SKUs introduced by the supplier and manufacturer.
• New price list data for changes in cost of goods, MSRP or product enhancements or upgrades..
• Updated product attributes.

 

Features

• Specify announce, discontinue, or withdrawal dates.
• Specify one or more replacement or alternative products.
• Specify if a product is displayable or non-displayable.
• Specify if a product is buyable or non-buyable within a specified period of time.

 

Edition

Professional, Enterprise, Express

 

Subprocesses

• Pricing

 

Tasks

Task	Description	Role
Create SKU	A SKU represents a buyable instance of a product and is defined by a particular combination of the product's attribute values. For example, a product may be a knit sweater with the following defining attributes: color ( values are red or blue) and size (values are S, M, or L). There could potentially be 6 SKUs associated with the product, one for each combination of the defining attributes (red-S, red-M, red-L, blue-S, blue-M, blue-L). Each SKU may specify its own attributes such as images, MSRP and descriptions. SKUs may be generated based on possible combinations of the product and its defining attributes.	Product Manager
Select products	Select products for which the standard price is being defined	Product Manager
Update attributes	Add or modify attributes that describe a product, service, part, SKU, kit or bundle. This could include images, additional translated descriptions, manufacturer or supplier data, MSRP, descriptive attribute information, and defining attribute information for products. Each combination of the set of defining attribute's values determine the SKUs for a product.	Product Manager

 

Business artifacts

• Master catalog
• Price list
• Product information

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