SKU Creation Best Practices

You've got a product and you are ready to sell. If only it were that easy. There are a million little steps to get you from having a product to actually selling it. Some of those little steps can take up a lot of time and too much energy; SKU creation should not be one of those. Here is a list of 5 SKU creation best practices that will help to take the headache out of determining the perfect SKUs for your products. 1. Create a company acronym If you need to specify the name of a company (yours or a company you work with), it's always helpful to create an abbreviation or acronym that can be utilized uniformly throughout all of your SKUs. EXAMPLE: ShipZOOM can be shortened to Shpzm or SZ. It is still easy to understand and can be easily added to any SKU. But choose only one and use it consistently, if you switch back and forth it will cause unnecessary confusion. 2. Order words according to their importance Start with the broadest/ most important information about the product