Understanding Composition and Labels

This table describes the items that are required for style item labels:

Item on Label	Description
Made In	The country where the product was manufactured.
Composition	A list of the materials used to make the item along with the respective percentage of each.
User Cleaning Codes	Information on how to care for the style item, such as washing and drying instructions.

The "made in" and composition information may also be required on invoices or exportation documents depending on local legislation. You use two programs to capture this information for style items.

Define the composition of an item in the Composition Entry program (PCW44). The Compositions table (FCW60) holds composition information. You can define one or several compositions for one style item. For example, you many need to specify the composition of the main material or fabric and the composition of the lining. Specify all of the materials that make up a style item as well as the percentages of those materials. For example, you may have a style item for which the main material is 90 percent cotton and 10 percent wool, but the lining is 100 percent silk. You would record all of this information in the composition for that item.

Use the Additional Style Item Information program (PCW45) to define additional information, such as cleaning codes. The Additional Style Item Information table (FCW61) holds the additional information. You can specify cleaning codes for a style item, such as Dry Clean Only and Do Not Bleach. You can also set up and use 10 different category codes to hold additional style item information. These additional category codes are not related to the category codes that you set up in the Item Master program and are not used for any processing. You can use these codes for informational or reporting purposes. During the style item creation process, the system uses the category codes from the Item Master program.

When you create a new item, you can call both the Composition Entry and Additional Style Item Information programs automatically from the Style Item Master program (PCW51) during item creation by setting the appropriate processing options for the Item Master (P4101) version you are calling.