Product and measurement settings
Configure default units of measurement for your products, set SKU naming patterns, and other product settings. You can find the settings below in your General Settings, in the Settings section of the main menu.
Weight unit of measure
Choose the default unit of measure for product weight.
Dimensions units of measure
Choose the default unit of measure for product dimensions (width, length, depth, height).
SKU auto-generation
Choose whether to generate SKUs for your stock, service, and fixed asset inventory items automatically or manually enter SKUs yourself. Enabling SKU auto-generation will let you specify the SKU naming pattern for each type. SKU auto-generation can be enabled/disabled at any time without affecting existing SKUs.
Update stock received date with transfer completion date
When products have a FIFO costing method, products that have been received into your inventory are picked before products that have been received later. Consider two units of the same product, A and B, where A has been received earlier than B. After unit B has been received, unit A is transferred to another location.
When this setting is disabled, when unit A is transferred to a different location it will maintain its original stock received date and will be picked before unit B.
When this setting is enabled, when unit A is transferred to a different location, stock received date will be replaced with transfer completion date. Unit B now has the earlier stock received date, and will be picked before unit A.
This can be used in multiple ways to move around the stock and the picking preferences to bring up stock that you want to release ahead of the natural FIFO order.
Recommend batch/serial no. for FIFO/FEFO
This setting applies to sale order fulfillment, stock transfers, and assembly orders, both in Cin7 Core and Cin7 Core WMS application. System actions such as auto-pick and auto-consume for production will automatically select items according to the costing method. However, any item can be picked with manual selection or manual scanning.
The following options are available:
Don’t recommend: No warning or restrictions will be displayed if first in/first expired stock has not been selected.
Recommend and warn: System will direct WMS picker to bins containing the first in/first expired stock. Upon pick authorization, a warning message will display if stock picked from the bin is not first in/first expired according to product costing method, and the recommended batch/serial no. of first in/first expired stock. User can ignore the warning and pick selected stock, or remove picked items to pick first in/first expired stock.
Recommend and enforce: System will direct WMS picker to bins containing the first in/first expired stock. Upon pick authorization, a warning message will display if stock picked from the bin is not first in/first expired according to product costing method, and the recommended batch/serial no. of first in/first expired stock. User must remove picked items to pick first in/first expired stock.
Exclude expired batch/serial numbers
When enabled, system actions such as auto-pick, batch/serial no. recommendation, and auto-consume for production will exclude any stock with expired batch/serial no. This does not apply validation to manual scanning or selection of stock.
New product description prompt
Use OpenAI (ChatGPT) to generate short and long product descriptions from a customizable prompt template. Use our placeholder prompt or customize with your own prompt for OpenAI to generate product descriptions. Product descriptions are generated from the product's inventory record. Available placeholders are [ProductDescription] [ProductName] [ForBrand] [ForCategory] [N], where N is word limit.
Rephrase product description prompt
Use OpenAI (ChatGPT) to rephrase short and long product descriptions using a customizable prompt template. Use the placeholder prompt or customize with your own prompt for OpenAI to rephrase product descriptions. Product descriptions are generated from the product's inventory record. Available placeholders are [ProductDescription] [ProductName] [ForBrand] [ForCategory] [N], where N is word limit.