Article

Article

The article concept is most commonly used to identify a product by its properties, but articles may also identify raw materials and semi products by their properties. Article numbers are also often called product codes or item numbers. Articles do not identify specific instances of material, but is rather a way to group material with similar properties, such as vendor, size, efficiency, colour and so on. The article entity has some central attributes which is described below.

Article

The Article attribute is a textual short name of the actual article. This attribute is most often used to store article numbers or product codes. 

Article name

The Article name attribute is a textual name of the actual article. This attribute is most often used to store the human readable name of the article. 

Article id

The Article id attribute is a database generated serial number of the actual article.