I am constantly bombarded with engineering changes creating new finished good part numbers where the explaination given is "It's the same as so-and-so, but with this one change."  I am therefore excited to begin the cultural shift of not creating a new number every time the color changes (to borrow from the DBA example).  The question posed to me, which I now pose to you good folks, is if you don't code the blue desk and the red desk as separate finished good part numbers, but rather a desk with options of color as red or blue, is there a way to track the sales of red desks vs. blue ones?
Thanks again for your advice,
Jim Walden
HVPSI