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Hi All, @Sylvie Demarest

In SID, it suggests that a StockItem may be provided by multiple manufacturers, yet the StockItemCode consists of EAN or GTIN or another industry standard identifier which is unique per manufacturer.  Is this a mistake in SID?

Hi Dan,

input from gs1.org web site :

"A Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) is a unique number that identifies any pre-defined trade item (a product or service) that may be priced, ordered or invoiced at any point in any supply chain. Trade items include all services and products, from raw materials through to end user products.

The Brand Owner, the organisation that owns the specifications of the trade item, regardless of where and by whom it is manufactured, is normally responsible for the allocation of the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN)."

In SID model stock item corresponds to trade item in the previous definition. So no error in SID.

Best regards

Sylvie

Thanks Sylvie.

The example though seems to suggest that there are two solutions, which appear to be branded as Sagem or Inventel White Box, are offered to customers as trade items.  Based on GTIN, the model appears fine, but the example is perhaps slightly misleading.

Also, for some (smaller) trade items, it is possible that there may not be a registered GTIN, in which case we would want to identify by SKU instead.  Are there any plans to add the SKU to an array of stockItemCode[s] so that we can check/reserve/adjust stock based on the SKU?
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Dan d'Albuquerque
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