Cunning Turtle SKUs

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SKUs

Def: Stock Keeping Unit

  • SKUs should not identify products details, that is for a detailed description
  • SKUs should not be the manufacturer number as they are long and hard to read
  • Large Corportations with thousands of product configurations require detailed SKUs, smaller businesses have typically < 1000 products so short SKUs enhance readability
  • SKUs should not have exotic characters #$!/\|
  • SKUs should NEVER start with the number 0 because word processors will butcher it
  • SKUs should try to limit or control usage of alpha I, O, L and numeric 1, 0 because it will lead to typos


Our Format

Column1 Column2
Suffix 3 alphabetic characters max. no numbers. you may not break this rule
Dash Dashes help to distinguish alpha chars from numerics
Number 3 digits max starting at 000