Development Carryover Products & Colorways Process - N2
- When Marketing Team carries over Products/Colorways only primary source in prior season is carried over to new season.
- This source is set as primary source for Product and Season.
Cost sheet on Carryover
Update spec-less cost sheet
- Before starting to work on the Cost Sheet, update the Cost Sheet which is copied from previous season to carry over season.
- Go to costing tab of the product. Select new carry over season and source.
- From Cost Sheet list tab, click on the Edit Cost sheet icon as highlighted below.
- In Update Cost sheet page, select the specification from the drop down to avoid using the spec-less cost sheets going forward and also select the representative colorways and sizes for the new season.
- Click on Save button.
- Cost sheet is updated with Specification, colorway and size details.
Copy cost sheet from previous season (clipboard)
- In order to copy cost sheets from previous Season, navigate to previous Season of the same Product->Select Source, and navigate to Sourcing ->Cost Sheet tab.
- Click on the name of the cost sheet which you would like to copy to new Season. The cost sheet is opened in the new tab.
On click of the Copy Cost sheet icon a new tab will open. Make sure only the CS you want to copy are present in clipboard. Delete if any other CS are present in the list. Close the clip board tab.
Note: Delete if any other components are appearing in the clip board other than the one intended for copy.
- Now navigate to the new season by changing the Season drop down and select the Source.
- Click on Paste all Product Information.
- New tab would open with CS that was copied to clip board from previous season. Select the CS and click on Complete.
- The CS is copied to new Season as shown below.
- If Cost sheet is not added to Specification, then make sure to Update the CS and Select the Specification in the drop down and Save the CS before starting to work.
- If you like to copy multiple CS or components from previous season then go to previous season and use the option “Copy all Information on Product” as shown below. Choose the components you would like to copy and delete the remaining components.
- Repeat steps 5-8 to paste the selected components on clipboard to new Season.
Note: Delete if any other components are appearing in the clip board other than the one intended for copy.
Specification on Carryover
- When Marketing Team carries over Products/Colorways, new specification is created for the primary source.
- Specification name is derived from Development Stage, Season and Year.
- Development Stage is defaulted to Proto.
- Season Reference is set based on Season Type of the carried over season.
- S for Spring / Summer
- F for Fall / Winter
- Year Reference is set based on Year of the carried over season.
- No BOM components will be carried over to the newly created specification. BOM components either have to be copied from previous season or newly created.
- SKU Size data carried over to the new season SKU size table including Article# and UPC Number
Copy BOMS
- For copying BOMs from clipboard refer to cheat sheet “Copy BOM from Clipboard”
- Another way to create BOM using previous seasons BOMS is explained as below.
- Navigate to newly carry over season product-Specification->BOM. click on Initialize a new BOM using another BOM from this product Icon.
- On select Colorways window, select the colorways and click on Select button.
Note: Make sure newly created Spec is selected along with Season and Source.
- Initialize existing BOM page will open. Fill or change the fields and click on Save.
- Edit BOM Page opens. User can edit or add or remove rows and click on Save and Check In button.
- New BOM is created and saved for the new Specification.
Copy Measurements
- For copying Measurements from clipboard refer to cheat sheet for “Measurements”
Measurement Set can also be created from existing ones in previous season. Navigate to newly carry over season-product-Specification->Measurements tab.
- Make sure newly created Spec is selected along with Season and Source.
- Give the below details.
- Give the new Measurement Set Name. Measurement Set Name should be same as Product Name
- Choose the Product Size Definition and select Grade Template (If Available)
- Choose the Measurement from “Create from Product Measurement Set” drop down
- Click on Create.
- Update Measurement Set page will open fill/change the parameters and Click on Save & Check In button.
- Measurement Set is created for new season source and spec
Add existing components from previous seasons
Adding existing components to specification is usually done when the data set do not change with respect to seasons. The components are linked when using the option of Add existing. Components which can be added are Image Pages, BOMs, Measurement Sets and Construction Sets. When changes are made to one season component it reflects in other seasons to which the component is added.
Components of previous seasons can be added to Specification by following the below steps.
- Navigate to new seasons new Specification summary page. Go to Specifications Components section at the bottom of the page to select/unselect the “Existing Components”
- Select the components you like to link to the new Seasons Specification
- In the Specification summary page expand the components section to see the newly added BOM and Measurements.
- Any changes made to these components will be reflecting in the other season’s specification components to which this is linked with.