Catalog products

Catalog products are products that are not physically in your warehouse, but you maintain minimal information about them in the system. Consider the catalog product as a nonstock product with information online.

You can use these methods to create catalog records:

• Manual setup in Product Catalog Setup
• When you create an order for a nonstock product in Sales Order Entry

Your security controls the manner in which you can handle catalog products. You can view catalog records on inquiries and lookups in all companies within your database. If you have the security to create inventory records from catalog records in Sales Order Entry, Sales Customer Pricing Inquiry, or Product Warehouse Product Setup, Product Setup and Product Warehouse Product Setup records are created.

In Sales Order Entry, depending on your operator security, the line item is treated as a special order, order-as-needed stock item, or as a nonstock.

Catalog product records can also be used to create permanent product records in Product Setup and Product Warehouse Product Setup. If Yes is selected in the Allow Entry of Non-stocks field in SA Operator Setup-Entry Options, you can create a stocked product using the default values in the Product Catalog Setup record.