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What is Stock Keeping Units (SKU)

Chapter 89
Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
A SKU is a number or string of alpha and numeric characters that uniquely identify a product. For this reason, SKUs are often called part numbers, product numbers, and product identifiers. SKUs may be a universal number such as a UPC code or supplier part number or may be a unique identifier used by a specific a store or online retailer.
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Freshness Management in the Retail Business
Hisashi Kurata (University of Tsukuba, Japan) and Seong-Hyun Nam (University of North Dakota, USA)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5202-6.ch089
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