JobTracker uses purchase products for purchase orders, allocating material to jobs, and inventory. This article provides a definition of the terms. For additional information read the Implementation Guide for Material Management
Definitions
Product Family/Product Line - Used for filtering and sorting your data. Each product family can have multiple product lines under it. For example, the Solid Surface product family could have Corian, Hi-Macs and Avonite product lines. You can move products to a different product family or a different product line so don't be too concerned with this at the beginning.
Product - Product name such as Corian sink, adhesive or granite slab. The product name prints on the purchase order along with any product attribute values.
Unit of Measure - Describes the measure used when purchasing the product such as square feet, linear feet, linear inch or each. The unit of measure selected for the purchase product will also be used when allocating the job and for inventory. For example, if you create a product for Silestone Slabs with "each" as the unit of measure, your material allocations and inventory counts for this product would show the number of slabs or partial slabs. NOTE: If you plan on tracking remnants of sheets/slabs using actual dimensions, you will want to choose Sq. Ft.
Product Attribute - Describes characteristics of the product like color, thickness and size. For example, Silestone Color and Sink Model.
List of Values - Associated with a product attribute. Contains all the possible values for that attribute.
Product Variant - A combination of the values of a product's attributes. For example, if you have a product named Corian sink with a sink model attribute and a color attribute, JobTracker would generate a product variant for each combination of sink model and color. (e.g. Corian Sink #810 Glacier White)
Cost Groups - Group of product variants that have the same cost. This simplifies the maintenance of costs since you change the cost for the group instead of changing the cost for each product variant. In the example above, if the cost of all the #810 sink models were the same regardless of color, all of the product variants for #810 sink model could be put in the same cost group.
Cost List - Contains a supplier's products and the associated costs. JobTracker generates a "Standard" cost list when the supplier is created. When you add a product, you will need to assign it to the supplier's cost list. Each purchase order is associated with a cost list. The cost list determines which products are available for selection on the purchase order.