Vendor family representation in SKU

Question

Hi All,
I've requirement at my client where the vendor's family of products drive number of functions:
It's primarily like the product hierarchy, but it is the vendor's product classification we need to capture
The standard PRODH field we're using to capture the client's internal product classification .
They perform number of functions by this field:
- Rollup reporting by vendor family products
- Customer pricing by line of vendor family products
- Sales out reporting by line of vendor family products
- Rebates by line of vendor family products
We've looked at different options - i.e Vendor sub-range , material group, classification etc. to capture this, however all these do not work for all the requirements without enhancements . So, we're looking for alternative solution someone might have come across to address similar requirement , a hierarchy attribute in material that would fit vendor's product classification and could be used for sales order pricing, purchasing & sales reporting.
The example would be for vendor: HP Corporate > HP Printers > HP Laser Printers.
It's at the HP laser printer level where they would like to perform the functions (without creating new vendors for each level)
Any suggestions.
Ketan

Answer 1

Hi Piyush,
You can use Batch specific UOM.
To help you I have pasted some interesting conversation of SDN related to the Batch Specific UOM.
[1. From PP|Re: Batch specific UOM]
[2. From MM|BATCH SPECIFIC MATERIAL UOM]
[3 From SD.|Re: Batch specific UOM]
Regards,
Shyamal
Edited by: Shyamal Joshi on Aug 5, 2008 10:44 AM