What's New?
Complete SKU Details Task
To improve reporting and evaluations accuracy, we have developed a new ‘Complete SKU Details’ task, which will ask product suppliers to enter the details of all products’ SKUs.
Some of the benefits of entering the SKU data include:
- A more granular item-level view of packaging data (product & individual packaging Bill of Materials)
- Improve reporting capabilities for SKU-level visibility, EPR readiness and other compliance initiatives
- Improve accuracy of recyclability and at risk & banned evaluations at SKU level
- Providing important context and allowing multiple Bill of Materials iterations to be considered for the same product e.g. different packaging configurations, multi-supply, etc
- Collection of packaging data that varies by SKU, such as printing, inks, and legislative inclusion
Note: this task is currently optional and retailers can decide if they would like to add it to their workflows. For more information on the benefits of using the ‘Complete SKU Details’ task and to activate this feature, please speak to your Aura representative.
When the ‘Complete SKU Details Task’ feature flag is on for a retailer, the new ‘Complete SKU Details’ task will be kicked off after:
- The ‘Approve Bill of Materials’ task is completed and the Bill of Materials is approved
- The ‘Confirm Bill of Materials Link’ task is completed and the Bill of Materials link is confirmed/approved
While the ‘Complete SKU Details’ task is running, the SKU status will remain ‘In Progress’.
The ‘Complete SKU Details Task’ will be assigned to the product supplier user that submitted the Bill of Materials. The product supplier will have to complete the SKU details form.
Some of the fields included in the SKU details form will have to be completed for each decorated primary component in the Bill of materials linked to the SKU.
For example, if the Bill of Materials liked to the SKU has 2 decorated components in the primary tier, the supplier will have to specify the ‘ink coverage’ for each component.
Once the ‘Complete SKU Details’ task is completed:
- The SKU will automatically be evaluated
- The SKU status will automatically update to:
- ‘Available for sale’, if the SKU has never been on sale before
- ‘On sale’, if the SKU is currently on sale
- ‘Off sale’ if the SKU has been on sale in the past
SKU Details Page: ‘Bill of Materials has not been approved’ banner
A SKU form cannot be completed until after the Bill of Materials linked to the SKU is approved. This is because the SKU form includes fields that apply and must be completed for each decorated primary component in the Bill of materials linked to the SKU, and until the Bill of Materials is approved and locked, its primary components can be changed.
Therefore, the SKU fields that relate to the Bill of Materials’ decorated primary components will not be displayed in the SKU form until after its Bill of Materials is approved and locked.
To avoid any confusion, a new banner has been added to the SKU form, to inform users that the form is not ready to be completed:
Ability to add on and off sale dates to ‘in progress’ SKUs
Retailers will now have the ability to add on and off sale dates to their SKUs while the SKU is in progress.
The SKU’s status will remain in progress until either:
- The ‘Complete SKU details’ task is completed
- If the ‘Complete SKU details Task’ feature flag is on for that retailer
- Or, the SKUs Bill of Materials is approved
- If the ‘Complete SKU details Task’ feature flag is off for that retailer
Once the above happens, the SKU’s status will automatically update to:
- ‘Available for sale’, if
- The SKU hasn’t had any on/off sale dates added
- Or, the on/off sale dates added to the SKU are in the future
- ‘On sale’, if the ‘on sale’ dates added are for the current date
- ‘Off sale’ if the ‘on sale’ date added was in the past and the SKU is no longer on sale
As per the current functionality, on/off sale dates can be added and amended after the SKU is ‘Available for sale’, ‘On sale’ or ‘Off sale’.
If any on/off sale dates happened at the same time as the SKU was ‘in progress’, this will be reflected in the SKU’s 'history' tab:
Component and Bill of Materials ‘Compliance’ tab: Addition of banner
Evaluation results in e-halo are context specific:
- Component evaluation: evaluation results of a packaging component in isolation and without any printing. E.g. a label on its own with nothing printed on it
- Bill of Materials evaluation: evaluation results of components interacting with each other without any printing. E.g. a label stuck to a bottle with nothing printed on it
- SKUs evaluation: evaluation results of components interacting with each other and printing data. E.g. a label stuck to a bottle, where the label has text printed on it and uses metallic ink.
We have added a new banner on the ‘compliance’ tab of the Components and Bills of Materials to make this distinction clear to users when they look at the evaluation results of an item:
Component:
Bill of Materials:
Updates and Bug Fixes:
- We have made the Bill of Materials ID a read-only field in the 'Task Hub' so that users don’t click on that hyperlink instead of the task name.
- We have updated the help text on the Bill of Materials’ field ‘Sale units per secondary’ so that is easier for users to understand what needs to be added on the field.
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