Article master

Article master refers to the listing of all articles of a manufacturing or trading company . Data on the article master are included in the master data of a merchandise management system , as they exist independently of other data.

Article is not to be understood as the individual physical real object; Rather, the article is a logically abstract concept that summarizes all real objects that are the same from a production or trade point of view.

An article is identified by an article number. Typical additional properties that describe the article are, for example, article description, weight, color, shape, supplier, country of origin, purchase price.

Often in the article master there is also a clear and thus identifying European resp. International Article Number (EAN) stored, which is printed or stuck onto the article as a barcode . This allows corresponding systems with a scanner to clearly identify the article after scanning and, for example, to B. to automatically determine the price for cash register systems and book the sale for each item.