Organizational Structure: Sales Department
Definition
Sales departments are subdivisions of stores.
Use
Sales departments are used to group together merchandise categories in a store and determine procurement activities in the store.
If an article in a store is also sold in departments other than the one assigned via the merchandise category, department-based sales statistics can only be generated accurately if the relevant department can be determined from the sales transaction (if, for example, the department is included in the information provided by the POS system). The same applies for layout-based statistics, such as sales area profitability, for example. This is not contained in the standard information structures.
Integration
Each department can be assigned a receiving point.
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