Initial configurations by item administrators for Sterling Business Center
To utilize the functionalities provided by Sterling™ Business Center, you must perform certain tasks in the Applications Manager before you start using the Sterling Business Center application.
The following table lists these tasks:
| Define... | To... |
|---|---|
| Service Types | Use these service types when creating a service |
| Statuses | Use these statuses when modifying category details. |
| Instruction Types | Use these instruction types, which can be associated with either an item instruction code or a manually added instruction, to describe what kind of instructions they are. |
| Instruction Codes | Use these instruction codes to describe special instructions associated to an item. |
| Service Skills | Use these service skills when configuring a delivery service, provided service, or return pickup service. |
| Velocity Codes | Use these velocity codes when adding a node to an item. |
| Service Options | Use these service options when configuring a delivery service, provided service, or return pickup service in order to add additional capacity requirements for a service. |
| Exclusion Codes | Use these exclusion codes when configuring either items or services if your business practices involve regulating shipments for certain countries and regions. |
| Alias Types | Use these aliases when configuring either items or services. Aliases are alternative item identifiers, which are displayed as fields in the details screen corresponding to either an item or a service. |
| Association Types | Use these association types when associating items to other items. |
| Asset Types | Use these asset types when adding assets that are electronic media objects, and can be associated to items, categories, attributes, and attribute values. If you are defining an item image, it is recommended that the size of the image is 115 pixels by 115 pixels. |
| Asset Content Location | Use this asset content location when adding assets that are electronic media objects, and can be associated to items, categories, attributes, and attribute values. |
| Cost Posting Classification | Use this cost posting classification when defining an item's classification |
For more information about the tasks that must be performed prior to using Sterling Business Center, refer to the Catalog management concepts.