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Concepts

Before you build anything, it helps to hold the mental model the whole product is shaped around. This area covers what Elevate Apparel does, the Style, Product, SKU model, the two ways a SKU becomes a Business Central Item, and a resolution pattern that repeats in three different places.

What the product does​

Standard Business Central manages Items and Item Variants. It has no concept of a "Style" that comes in several colours and sizes, no matrix view, no season planning, and no apparel-specific lifecycle. Elevate Apparel adds all of that as a layer above the standard Item, so a merchandiser works in apparel terms (Style, Colour, Size, Collection, Drop) while the underlying inventory, sales, and purchasing still run on ordinary Business Central Items.

Read on for:

  • The core model: Style, Product, and SKU, and the two ways a SKU maps onto a Business Central Item.
  • Cascades: the most-specific-wins resolution pattern that appears three times across the product.