> We are required by one of our retailers to limit the size of our product
> descriptions to 20 characters and to have unique product descriptions.
> Currently if we sell a product that comes in a variety of colors they all
> have the same description.
>
> I am not able to change all of the descriptions in our material master, so
> I am looking at ways to make the descriptions unique when loading the
> catalog. One way to do this would be to use the NRF color code as the
> last three characters. I don't know if that is an acceptable solution, and
> I am concerned that other retailers may object to our suddenly changing
> all our descriptions.
>
> I would be interested to hear if anyone else has had to deal with this
> situation and if so, how they resolved it.
Descriptions should not matter, as long as you are prepared to "get back" in
your customers' POs whatever you loaded out there (probably in PID segment)
and you are not using that (inbound) description for anything.
But as long as I have been in the business (25+ years) I have never seen
'description' used as any kind of 'key' field. A reference field which must
be turned around on outbound documents, yes, but never a key field.
Michael C. Mattias
Tal Systems Inc.
Racine WI
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