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Curriculum Automatic Shipments

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• Preceding Product SKU
  The Specification Attribute "Preceding Product SKU" connects curriculum products from one quarter to another.
  
  The "Preceding Product SKU" is not required. A product may have only one "Preceding Product SKU" attribute. If the "Preceding Product SKU" is empty when a product is added to a curriculum category, overnight the system will try to populate it based on the product's name, format, publication date, and curriculum term. It will attempt to match each product with previous products that have a similar title and the same format. The "Preceding Product SKU" may be a product from the previous quarter (Fall->Summer), the last same term (Fall 2023 -> Fall 2022), or any quarter in between (Fall->Spring or Winter). The same preceding product may be referenced by multiple future products. The "Preceding Product SKU" attribute can be managed in nopCommerce under the product's Specification Attributes accordion section. In iPac the attribute can be found under General>Preceding Product SKU. The attribute will be added to the ONIX feed that populates nopCommerce from Biblio/iPac.
  
  Setting Quantities for a new Quarter This applies to all line items in the Automatic Shipment. The system will look back in the customer's Automatic Shipment order history for the Previous Product SKU. It will look back quarter by quarter for up to 4 quarters and use the first quantity it finds. The Preceding Product SKU quantity will only match within the same exact Curriculum Automatic Shipment. If there is no "Preceding Product SKU" specified (perhaps because it is a new curriculum item or new quarterly curriculum), or it cannot be found in the customer's Curriculum Automatic Shipment order history, or it is a newly created automatic shipment, the quantity will be calculated based on the IsCurriculumLeaderProduct and IsCurriculumStudentProduct attributes. Quantities on skipped quarters are ignored. A Skipped Quarter is one where the "Skip This Shipment" was checked, quantities for all products in the automatic shipment were set to 0, or the automatic shipment had been canceled for that quarter. If the Preceding Product SKU is found in a skipped quarter, the system will look at that product's Previous Product SKU and look back in the Automatic Shipment order history until a valid quantity is found. The IsCurriculumLeaderProduct and IsCurriculumStudentProduct specification attributes will still be utilized for newly created automatic shipments and when a preceding product is not specified. To assist with populating the new specification attribute, there is a audit report that displays information about the product (SKU, Name, Format, Term) alongside the previous product it has been matched with. In the event that a match is incorrect (or not found), this specification attribute can be manually overridden. We have populated the specification attribute in nopCommerce.