Audience: Retailers
Many retailers use the Assortment feature within the inventory tab to separate SKUs into various groups. The most common use case for creating an assortment is to make sure that only approved items or SKUs are exported to your e-commerce or other system.
Importantly, when you use assortments, you should align the export of item data and their inventory updates with that assortment. You would do this, for instance, if you wanted to curate a set of item data exported for your e-commerce system and not receive all the inventory items available from your suppliers.
The product feed is meant to give retailers an ability to collect basic product data from suppliers and aggregate it into one feed that they can then pull into their e-commerce, PIM, or other backend system. It is NOT meant as a merchandising tool to add meta-data, host images that your product pages can call, assign category structure, etc.
Note: At this time, you may only create new assortments using the platform, as described below.
To review the fields that are part of the product /catalog Object, see Rithum Data Schema.
Creating an Assortment
Step 1: Click the navigation menu and select Workflows > Inventory.
Step 2: The Inventory page is displayed with a list of all your SKUs. Select the + next to Assortments to create a new assortment.
Step 4: From the list of SKUs, select the checkboxes to the left of the item(s) that you want to add to the assortment.
Tip: Looking to upload SKUs to the newly created assortment? See Adding inventory SKUs using an Excel file.
Step 5: Click Actions, select Add to Assortment(s), and then select the assortment name.
Step 6: A status message is displayed at the top of the page. Your inventory data should appear on the Inventory page within a couple of minutes.
Your items have been added to the assortment. Your item is still available in your main inventory view, the item has only been copied to an assortment. This means that you can view this assortment items separately from other inventory, or from an overview with all other items.
Exporting an assortment
Step 1: Click the navigation menu and select Automation & Reporting > Automation > Jobs.
Step 2: To create a new job, click Create Job at the top of the page, or edit an existing product export or inventory export job. (For full instructions on creation, see Creating an Automated Job).
Step 3: On the second step of the job settings editor, select what source data you want exported. From the Source Data drop-down, select the name of the assortment as the data source and click Next Step.
Step 4: Click Save Job.
Step 5: Click the Run Now icon on the main Automation Jobs page to export the assortment data from the platform to the export location of your choice.
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