Amazon's internal product identifier — relevant when industrial products are listed on marketplaces.
A machine-readable representation of a product identifier, scanned to look up the item.
Product information specific to a manufacturer brand, kept consistent wherever the brand appears in the channel.
A link between a distributor's internal number and the manufacturer's part number for the same product.
Identifying product records that refer to the same item to prevent catalog duplication.
The European Article Number — the international equivalent of the UPC, used to identify products outside North America.
The global standards organization that maintains GTINs, barcodes, and related product identification standards.
The Global Trade Item Number — a globally unique identifier for a product, used to track it consistently across trading partners and…
A generic term for the code used to reference a product within a given system, often a distributor's internal SKU.
Product data describing items sold together as a single sellable unit.
A Manufacturer Catalog Number used to consistently identify and match a product back to its source manufacturer across systems.
The Manufacturer Part Number — the identifier a manufacturer assigns to its own product, distinct from any distributor's internal number.
Any code used to uniquely name a product so systems and partners can refer to the same item without confusion.
Determining that records from different sources refer to the same physical product, so their data can be merged or linked.
A Stock Keeping Unit — the internal code a distributor or retailer uses to track a specific, sellable product variant.
A value guaranteed to refer to one and only one product, preventing duplicate or ambiguous records.
The Universal Product Code — the 12-digit barcode number that uniquely identifies a retail product in North America.
