A special type of compound items are packaged goods. When buying or selling goods, they are usually packaged for transport in large numbers, in so-called tertiary or transport packages. A smaller number of items is packaged in secondary packages, and single items in primary, or consumer packages. Please take a look at the example below:

Here you can observe:

1 * transport package = 8 * group package 1 * group package = 6 * consumer packages 1 * transport package = 8 * 6 = 48 * consumer packages.

For chocolate bars, a consumer package is one chocolate bar. A group package is a pack of 6 chocolate bars, for example a family pack or special offer. A transport package would be a cardboard box shipped by the importer.

A problem appears since number of chocolate bars not the number of packages is what is important in sales or purchasing. Transport packages are received on warehouse, but single chocolate bars are sold.

If only one ID is assigned for chocolate bar (one consumer package), you should record 480 chocolate bars at warehouse when shipping 10 boxes.

The error margin is quite big, that is why distributors usually label transport packages with special identifiers. Specify such a scenario by entering the following three items:

Entering those three items will automatically convert identifiers/quantity on the transport package to the appropriate quantity of items on documents.

Sometimes transport packages have no codes. Let us take a look at the following example:

Beer comes in cases of 12 bottles. Beer as well as returnable packaging (bottles and cases) must be tracked. Bottles and cases have no code. The warehouse handles only cases, the store only single bottles.

The items have to be set up like this:

When beer is shipped to the warehouse, identifiers (codes) are converted to the appropriate number of items.

The program converts codes and quantity of packaged goods to the items and quantities specified in the appropriate specifications. Only the first specification level is taken into account. Because of that you can reuse code of packaged goods in specifications.