Article of goods - its definition, designation, which is a fixed, alphabetic or numerical value for the classification of a particular type of product: by manufacturer, color, composition and other distinctive characteristics. For example, coats of different colors will have a different article, and differ only in color. Article of goods - the value is constant and assigned to the goods upon receipt of it at the warehouse of the enterprise or outlet. Assignment takes place manually or with the help of special programs for maintaining inventory records.
Software entry of the article of goods into a common storage base, as a rule, occurs with the help of devices for reading barcodes. Write-off occurs in the same way. This process can often be observed in a grocery supermarket or a large hypermarket of manufactured goods.
What is the advantage of using a product article? It allows you to exclude an elementary reassortment of goods, correctly classify products and enter these data in the table of articles of the enterprise, and then carry out a quick search.
This is very convenient when in the nomenclature of the organization there is the same product from different suppliers. To search for a position, you need to find the article number in the catalog. Moreover, even a new employee who does not know the specifics of the product and its exact names can handle such a simple operation.
The process of assigning an article to goods begins with production, ending with its process chain in a temporary production warehouse, where the final article of goods is formed. Each company develops its own articles. Of course, they may intersect with other trade organizations, but if only the same goods are being circulated and the European Article Number (ENA) is used. In it, the penultimate three digits are taken from the thirteen-digit code. This will be the article of goods, but basically it is assigned manually and each company has its own.
To a greater extent, the article is needed for the correct circulation of goods within the organization, and not for conducting foreign trade activities. In the USSR, a common article system was used, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers and used by all trade and warehouse organizations. This made it possible to simplify trade relations in a single state.
The printing house, an article approved by the Ministry, printed in special catalogs, which contained dozens of volumes of the printed publication. Each commodity specialist in the country used these publications.
If the records are kept within the enterprise, then the article of goods is assigned as you like as the warehouse is filled with nomenclature items, possibly even in arithmetic order, special stickers are issued with the name, a brief description and the article itself. If this is the external turnover of the goods, then all this data is encoded into the barcode of the goods, that is, in the same ENA.
If we have the 1C program “Enterprise Accounting” in order to avoid duplication of products and entering the same positions, we should write the article of goods directly in the column “Article”, and not before the name of the goods, as many do. What does it give? And this gives that when writing in the column "Search by product name" it displays exactly the desired position with the assigned article in the next line. Also, and vice versa, when entering the article, the desired item and the desired product are found.
What happens when writing an article before the name of the product? This, of course, is convenient, but only for those who know the articles for memory. Well, one person will not be engaged in this and have an impeccable memory. He can get sick, go on vacation, go on a raise. The serial number written in front will block all system settings for searching by article, and a search by name will not produce results.
The system will not find “Demi-green coat” if it is written “1234 Green coat”, but will move this item to the top of the list. With this input error, a person will believe that such a position does not exist and will make a mistake by posting and duplicating this product.