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We have a client who sells 4-packs of 4 different soda flavors. They have a 12-ct variety pack that we need to assemble that has 3 of each flavor. Currently, there is no way to do a partial SKU in the manufacturing module, so we have to recount their SKUs down and recount variety packs up and charge manually.
They don't sell individual units and they're received in 4-packs/8-packs/16-packs, so it doesn't make sense to treat them as individual bottles in the system from a SKU standpoint.
Not sure how it would be managed, but it would make sense to set up the kit as containing 3/4 of a 4-pack SKU, and then when you entered a # of kits to be manufactured it would just have to equal a whole number for each SKU that is a part of the kit.
So, in this case, each kit gets 3/4 of a 4-pack, so the system would force you to manufacture in multiples of 4 to make sure there were not partial 4-packs left afterwards.
I don't understand why you need partial Skus. The 12ct variety pack could also simply be a synset that requires the pack4 finished good to ship on the fly. The 12-pack can also be configured as a finished good, consisting of 3 x sku=pack4 (finished good) or 12 individual SKUs. The last choice is preferred. Each Pack would be a different finished SKU (pack4, pack8, pack12 in this case). Each set is configured by adding unit SKUs:
What other customers have done in order to manage non-integer quantities is to multiply the quantity by 100 (adding two zeros). So the 3/4 = 0.75 would become 75 units. This will obviously not work if you use units to charge your customer.
We are looking into improving the manufacturing module. Could you please clarify your proposed process?
Their products come pre-wrapped in 4-packs, 8-packs, 16-packs.
Synsets will not work because when a replenishment is submitted it would be in terms of 4-packs, 8-packs, and 16-packs.
2 x 4-packs don't make an 8-pack for example because the 8 pack has different packaging and again is pre-wrapped.
For the same reason, they can't be treated as individual SKUs - because picking 8 bottles in an 8-pack is not equivalent to picking 8 bottles in 2 x 4 packs because of the pre-wrapped packaging.
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With little thought put into this, imagine the scenario of a 4-ct variety (1 of each SKU is used to assemble a 4-pack).
When setting up the Kit, you would put 1/4 of SKU-A-4pk, 1/4 of SKU-B-4pk... 1/4 SKU-D-4pk.
My thought would be on the Manufacturing screen (from the Pending tab), where you put in the QTY of kits you want to create, it would force you to kit in specific multiples to make sure there were not partial SKUs leftover.
In this case, to make sure you have no partial 4 packs leftover of the individual SKUs, you would have to create 4 of the variety pack kits. So, when entering the number into that field, it would require it be a multiple of 4.
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We had another client recently who has 2 pill SKUs. The packets of SKU-A had 30 pills per packet and SKU-B had 60 pills per packet. They wanted us to kit some trail kits that had 3 and 3 of each pill respectively.
So, we've had this happen twice in the past few weeks for context.
Does that sorta make sense? Trying my best to explain. It's a bit of a fringe case, but worth thinking about I guess and it does happen.