Packs

Introduction

StockControl supports the usage of what is called “packs”. A pack is fixed collection of items of a certain article, for example a box or a pallet. Packs can be created through the Article Editor, see also Article Management . This page is about how packs are handled in the system.

Terms and structure

Articles can be administered as a tree of SKUs. Each article always has a “Customer Unit” or CU. From this CU, packs can be derived. To create a pack, a new SKU (record in the wms_article table) is created, with two values set: the subarticleid and refarticleid. The subarticleid refers to the record that this pack has inside. The ref (reference) articleid refers to the CU record, i.e. the article that the end user wants to process.