I input an item number into the “Search by Stock Number” field and seemed get matches that do not seem to correspond with the search request. Why?
The “Search by Stock Number” program is designed to bring back any item number that has the requested characters anywhere in the item number, regardless of whether the characters are at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of the item number. This allows you to more easily search by partial item numbers. If you look at the seemingly un-matching items you should find that the characters you requested do exist somewhere if the returned matches.