Locations and labels

Locations are named areas within a store where inventory items are kept.

Those can be areas on the floor, shelfs, pallets etc. Each location must have unique name within a store which is used to reference that location in inventory management system. Usually this name is printed on a label/sticker attached to location.

Important!
Locations names are case-insensitive so for example MANHATTAN-AREA-1 and manhattan-area-1 is the same name.

Types of inventory labels

Your organization can use different types of labels attached to each inventory item for tracking purposes. You must explicitly define in inventory list file which label type (or inventory code type in Cycle Count Manger terminology) should be used to count given set of items.

Important!
Inventory codes are case-insensitive so for example SKU-RED and sku-red is the same code.

Label type: sku

This is the most popular label type amongst many organizations where some internal identifier is generated and applied to all items of the same product:

location_name,inventory_code_type,inventory_code,inventory_quantity,inventory_name
MANHATTAN-AREA-1,sku,SKU-RED,2,"RED T-SHIRT"
MANHATTAN-AREA-1,sku,SKU-GREEN,4,"GREEN T-SHIRT"
...

Label type: barcode

This is similar to sku but instead of generating identifier internally international barcode labels already printed on the products such as EAN-13 or EAN-8 are used:

location_name,inventory_code_type,inventory_code,inventory_quantity,inventory_name
MANHATTAN-AREA-1,barcode,5902078003202,2,"RED T-SHIRT"
...

Label type: guid

Unique identifier is generated internally within organization for each item of the same product:

location_name,inventory_code_type,inventory_code,inventory_quantity,inventory_name
MANHATTAN-AREA-1,guid,SKU-RED-069f079a-cc04-4be0-8548-f3d83e716e2f,1,"RED T-SHIRT"
MANHATTAN-AREA-1,guid,SKU-RED-b4abe5a5-64a6-49d9-9dfd-35510d452aa9,1,"RED T-SHIRT"
...