Product variants are versions of a single product, such as a shirt that is available in a variety of sizes and colors.
In Data Management Accelerator for Retail, a 'variant' is an internal source record which has a 'master product' for parent.
Implementing the product variant concept is most useful in cases where you have groupings of sellable items that are basically the same product, save for a few variations such as ‘size’ and ‘color’. The majority of the product information can be maintained at the ‘master product’ object level, which inherits down to all of the ‘variations’ (internal source records) beneath it while the ‘variant’ information (e.g. size, color, etc.) can be maintained directly on each individual ‘variation’. This approach eliminates the need to maintain duplicate information on each individual sellable item.
Process
The product variant process involves the following steps, each of which is described in the topics shown below.
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Setup (here) |
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PDX (here) |
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Creation (here) |
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Translation (here) |
