Blanket SKUs

Some products arrive as endless small variations that you don't actually track separately on the shelf — a bin of assorted greeting cards, mixed loose stems, small hardware. A blanket SKU rolls many purchase lines up into one inventory record you can price, scan, and count as a single thing.

When to use one

Reach for a blanket SKU when several different PO lines should behave as one sellable product:

• You buy them in many tiny variants, but sell them at one price
• Tracking each variant separately would be more trouble than it's worth
• You want a single count and a single scan target for the whole group

How it works

You point multiple line items at one blanket SKU. From then on:

• The blanket SKU carries one inventory count — the received quantities from all its source lines roll into it.
• It has one price and one scan target, so it rings up and labels as a single product.
• The individual source lines aren't lost — they're recorded as the blanket SKU's mapped sources.

Seeing what's inside

On a blanket SKU's product page, a Mapped sources card lists every line consolidated into it — the source item, which PO it came from, the units, the unit cost, and the vendor. So even though you sell it as one thing, you can always trace exactly what went into it.