Assigning UPCs to Products

Use UPC Codes Maintenance to assign a primary Universal Product Code (UPC) to a product record. In addition, you can do the following:

Assign secondary UPCs to the product record.
Edit existing UPCs assigned to the product record.
Change which UPC is the primary and which UPCs are secondary for the product record. Make this change when you choose to have a different vendor supply a generic product but want to retain the previous vendor's UPC.

Important: If your business maintains separate product records and you need to assign a UPC code to the same product at different branches, contact Eclipse Support. Support will activate the Enable Branch Specific UPCs control maintenance record at your site so that you can assign a UPC code to the same product at different branches.

To assign UPCs to a product:

From the Maintenance menu, select Product to display the Product Maintenance window.
Display the product record to which to assign UPCs.
From the Additional Data menu, select UPC Code Maintenance to display the UPC Codes Maintenance window.

In the Primary UPC field, enter the product’s primary UPC. UPCs must be numeric.

Note: The system warns you if you enter a UPC that is already assigned to another product. You must enter a unique UPC to continue.

In the UPC UOM field, select the unit of measure to associate with the Primary UPC.
Use the EAN / GTIN field if your products use these bar code types:

European or International Article Number (EAN) - A super set of UPCs used worldwide for marking products sold at a retail point-of-sale. Up to 13 characters.
Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) - Used for international trade items only. Up to 14 digits long.

Note: These options are new in Release 9.0. Standard EDI mappers will be adjusted to look for EAN#’s. This will be addressed in a future release.

In the Secondary UPC field, enter additional UPCs associated with the product.
In the UPC's UOM field, enter the unit of measure for each Secondary UPC.
Save changes and exit the window.

More Options from the UPC Codes Maintenance Window

The UPC Codes Maintenance window also offers these options:

To...	Select this menu option
assign user-defined UPCs to products	Edit > User Defined Maintenance The Price Updating ID Maintenance window displays.
set a defined secondary code as the primary UPC, select the secondary UPC and use the menu option	Edit > Set As Primary The selected code moves to the Primary UPC field and the code that was in the Primary UPC field moves to the Secondary UPC field.
set the primary UPC to be a secondary UPC	Edit > Set As Secondary The code in the Primary UPC field moves under the Secondary UPC field. You can now enter a new primary UPC.