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What is the recommend way to define product number in D365 commerce for Retail Business?

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Posted on by Liamneesan

We are in the Retail business, we need to define a product number, what is the recommend way to give proper naming convention to Product number in D365 commerce?

we have more than 70,000 products with different unit of measures

we have a list Category hierarchy, lets say

Category Hierarchy

Food

Drinks
- Fruit Drinks
  - Non-Sugar
  - Sugar
- Coffee Drinks
- Healthy Drinks
- Soft Drinks
- Water
  - Flavored Water
  - Non-Flavored Water

What is the recommend way of naming the product number?.

Ex: Coffee Drinks(sub category) -> Nescafe Mocha Drink (product)

so product code like CFEDR0001, so the next product when I create on the same category, the product number to be CFEDR0002

Or Just Auto generate product number regardless of any Category hierarchies

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RE: What is the recommend way to define product number in D365 commerce for Retail Business?

It does not matter. All alpha, all numeric or alpha-numeric. Create them as you wish, they do not need to be consecutive and can be manually defined.
Shafeeque P. 6,509 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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RE: What is the recommend way to define product number in D365 commerce for Retail Business?

It requires customization.
Liamneesan 30 on at

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RE: What is the recommend way to define product number in D365 commerce for Retail Business?

Is that possible to Auto generate Product ID based on Category while creating a product master?
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RE: What is the recommend way to define product number in D365 commerce for Retail Business?

I don't think there is an out of box functionality to have a specific item code sequence based on the category. I wouldn't say this is not a standard practice as I have had two of our clients request this. Most of them go with the a single sequence itself.