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Special Labels for Assorted Inventory

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Assorted Inventory

If you are receiving a shipment of assorted inventory, such as T-Shirts or stuffed animals, which are slightly different in color or pattern but all use the same SKU, POSitive can distinguish each T-Shirt or stuffed animal by using Serial Numbers.  When printing labels you will be prompted to describe the T-shirt and the description you type will be printed on the label.

Advanced Setup

Go to File: System: System Setup: Inventory: Serial Numbers: and activate Allow Duplicate Serial Numbers

Go to Reports: Inventory Labels which opens the editor.

Select or create a label which includes serial number information and add text in the Custom Prompt1 field.

  For example....

AssortedInventoryLabel

 

Define The Item

Create the inventory item for the T-Shirt.

Choose Track Stock

Choose Track Serial Numbers.

Choose Label Type 4 (or whatever you defined for labels above) on the Defaults Tab.

 

Print The Labels  

Receive inventory with a purchase orders  (or manually enter stock quantity).

Choose to Print Labels for the item.  You will be prompted to enter a description of each item for each label.  Descriptions can be identical.

AssortedInventoryPrintLabelPrompt