Markdown Profile Assignment 

Use

You use the markdown profile assignment function to assign articles to markdown profiles that you have created in the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW). You can use markdown profiles to monitor sales of goods during the current season and, depending on the time-based target values for sales and the actual values, to propose price changes.

In markdown profile assignment in mySAP ERP, you can assign markdown profiles and change or delete existing assignments. However, you cannot display or process the actual markdown profiles. This is only possible in SAP BW.

You can assign markdown profiles in mySAP ERP or SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP SEM) to articles. If you want to use operational assortment planning and control (OAPC) in mySAP ERP, you must use markdown profile assignment in mySAP ERP.

In OAPC, you can assign markdown profiles directly to articles from OAPC in mySAP ERP. If you release the planned articles, in other words if you have created article master records, you can only process the assignments in the markdown profile assignment in mySAP ERP.

Prerequisites

·        In Customizing, you have activated the markdown profile assignment in mySAP ERP to be able to assign markdown profiles in mySAP ERP.

For more information, see Customizing for Logistics – General under Season ® Markdown Profile Assignment ® Activate Markdown Profile Assignment.

·        In Customizing for markdown profile assignment, you have entered the BW system in which the markdown profiles have been created.

For more information, see Customizing for Logistics – General under Season ® Markdown Profile Assignment ® Edit Markdown Profile Assignment.

·        You have created the markdown profiles in SAP BW that you want to assign to articles.

·        You have created article master records for all the articles to which you want to assign markdown profiles.

·        You have entered color and size characteristics for every article.

Procedure

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       1.      You select the articles that you want to assign to markdown profiles, from a distribution chain. You can use various selection criteria to do this.

For more information, see Article Selection.

       2.      The system displays the articles selected in the worklist at the highest level; in other words, it displays single and generic articles but not variants of generic articles. The system provides information about existing markdown profile assignments.

       3.      You select articles for the markdown profile assignment from the worklist and specify the level at which you will process the assignments.

For more information, see Worklist.

Using fast maintenance you can go straight from article selection to markdown profile assignment without displaying or selecting the articles in the worklist.

       4.      You process the markdown profile assignment of articles.

¡        You can create new assignments or change and delete existing ones.

¡        You can process articles individually or use mass processing.

For more information, see Profile Assignment.

       5.      The system checks the consistency of markdown profile assignments.

       6.      You monitor the error log that the system creates when inconsistencies occur and then correct any inconsistent markdown profile assignments.

       7.      The system updates the assignment table and extracts the table to SAP BW.

       8.      You can reorganize the profile assignments in mySAP ERP.

For more information, see Reorganizing Profile Assignments.

Result

You have assigned markdown profiles to articles. Depending on the markdown profile selected and the actual sales made, the system proposes price changes for your articles.

See also:

Operational Assortment Planning and Control