Seasons

It necessary to pre-define your seasons prior to starting the Inventory Management process.  Seasons may be established/changed in "Setup Inventory Seasons" on the Inventory Maintenance menu. 

The season is assigned to the inventory that is ordered only for that season or a larger than usual quantity of the item is ordered for that season.  Seasons are referred to when calculating the minimum and maximum order quantities to be used when ordering stock for an upcoming season.  Seasons are also exempt from the calculations of minimum and maximum order quantities for regular stock orders. 

Example:  If a season is defined as 11/1 through 12/31 and that date range falls within the DaysForMin and/or DaysForMax, that date range will be ignored and the days prior to 11/1 will be used in the calculations instead.  If this did not happen, the minimum and maximum order quantities would be skewed because of the increase in sales during that time period.  Note that this would only apply to those inventory items assigned to the season. 

Serialized and accessory inventory may be assigned to a season when setting up new skus in "New Sku" or on the "Detail Info tab" of "SA Maintenance" for existing skus.  Titles inventory may be assigned to a season when setting up new catalog numbers in "New Catalog" or on the "Detail Info tab" of "Titles Maintenance".