Category* :
Category is the basic Stock Keeping Unit of inventory like Article.
Description:
Short Description or name of the Category, this will be needed at the time of sales setup and at retail counter.
Extended Description:
Detailed Description of the Category, sometimes useful at Retail Counters.
Short Name:
Very Short Description or "Alias" of the Category, helpful in searching the category from the search-list while feeding purchases or purchase orders
Active Status :
When checked, Category is treated as Active and available in all search-lists into subcategory master creation. The Inactive Category are not available in the search-lists, however you can get reports for all Category regardless of its Active Status.
Department :
Name of the Department to which the current Category belongs.Select Department from the available Department List open in grid.
Tax Category:
There are basically three predefined Tax Category are already created in software,the following are:
- Handloom
- Readymade
- Leathermade
Coding Scheme*:
Denotes the coding pattern to be followed while maintaining stock for this Category. The system supports following Coding Schemes:
- Fixed :- The stock is maintained with a fixed set of Item Codes. (By default Item Code is the Article Number itself).
- Lot :- Also known as "Lot", in this coding scheme, a system generated code will be assigned to a batch of items at each purchase.
- Unique :- Each individual piece would bear its unique identification through system generated code, very useful for valuable items or when you want to track transaction for each piece separately.
- EAN :- EAN verified system generated code will be generated for a combination of Article, Color and Size. The EAN codes are universally accepted and very useful when collaborating with world class companies.
Unit Of Measurements (UOM)* :
Specify the Unit of Measurement for the current Category.
Stock Type*:
Denotes the type of stock on how this Category would be handled in inventory management throughout the system. Stock Type of an Category can be one of the following:
- Inventory:- Denotes that this Category is an inventory item and its stock will be maintained in the trading or manufacturing transactions.
- Non-Inventory:- Denotes that this Category is not an inventory items and no need to maintain its stock.
- Asserts:- Denotes that this Category is a Consumable item such as printer-roll, shopping-bag etc.
- Consumable:- Denotes this this Category is an Asset. Asset tracking and depreciation mechanism will be implemented on this Category.
Rounding Method:
It is basically used for rounding the MRP value
- No Rounding
- Generic Rounding
- Round By Multiple Of Rounding value
- Round to the end of Rounding Value
Round value:
The Result of Rounded Method is shown in Round value field
Sales Tax:
Sales tax is the tax payed by used by the current branch it inclue state detail, Tax type of this state, Tax percentage etc
- Click On Inventory from menu bar.
- Select Categories from the list.
- Now, category Grid Page will get open up.
- Select on Add New inventory Category from Tasks into Category Grid page.
- Now, Category Master page will get Open.
- First, Assign the Department Name which is already created into department master.
- Specify the Category name and If necessary specify its description, shortname.
- Tick on the active status.
- Specify Tax Category which is existing into Tax Category master.
- Specify the default value of UOM which is existing into UOM master.
- Specify Coding type from the the drop down list.
- Specify Stock Type from drop down list.
- Specify MRP rounding Method.
- Click On Save button.
- Click On Inventory from menu bar.
- Select Categories from the list.
- Now, Categories Grid Page will get open up.
- Select the row on the category grid and then click on Edit the exising inventory Category from Tasks.
- Now,Category Master page of edititable category will get Open.
- Now Edit the required filled correctly.
- Click On Save button.
See Also: Department | Article | Subcategories | UOM |Rounding Method