Used case 1: Electronic Store
Your inventory consists of TV/DVD players, mobile phones, smart phones, laptops
and other electronics items from various manufacturing companies and various suppliers.
In simple used case with respect to collection you can define following 3 custom
fields.
- Brand
- Product Type
- Product Subtype
Brand: For all sony brands manufactured items you will specify brand as Sony.
For all Samsung manufactured items you will specify brand as Samsung.
Product Type: For all TV irrespective of manufacturing company you will specify
product type as “TV” For all DVD players irrespective of manufacturing company you
will specify product type as DVD players. For all mobile phones as Mobile phones.
With only these two additional fields you can have different views of your inventory.
And create different collection. Example of collection could be:
- Collection 1: All Sony products
- Collection 2: All Samsung products
- Collection 3: All TV products
- Collection 4: All Sony TVs
- Collection 5: All Samsung smart phones, mobile phones.
- Collection 6: All Samsung TVs with sales price more than 10000/-
- Collection 7: All sony TVs with sale price more than 10000/- and that has been purchased
with specific batch number.
As you can see above collection will group items based not only on custom fields
but also on any other attribute. Adding more custom fields like color, flavor, size
or whatever fits your business knowledge will give you tremendous flexibility in
grouping products in different ways.
Used case 2: Grocery Store
Your inventory consists of groceries, fruit/vegetables, beverages, household and
other branded items from various manufacturing companies and various suppliers.
In simple used case with respect to collection you can define following 3 custom
fields.
- Brand
- Product Type
- Product Subtype
Brand:For all patanjali manufactured products you will specify brand as Patanjali.
For all britannia manufactured items you will specify brand as Britannia.
Product Type: For all ayurvedic food items irrespective of manufacturing
company you will specify product type as “Ayurvedic” .For all health and nutrition
items irrespective of manufacturing company you will specify product type as "Health
& Nutrition". For all household items "Household".
With only these two additional fields you can have different views of your inventory.
And create different collection. Example of collection could be:
- Collection 1: All Patanjali products
- Collection 2: All Sri Sri Ayurveda products
- Collection 3: All Ayurvedic products
- Collection 4: All Amul products
- Collection 5: All Health and Nutrition products.
- Collection 6: All Patanjali products of pack size 500 ml carton
As you can see above collection will group items based not only on custom fields
but also on any other attribute. Adding more custom fields like Manufacturing Date,
size or whatever fits your business knowledge will give you tremendous flexibility
in grouping products in different ways.