Assortment List Generation (SAP Library

Assortment List Generation

Purpose

This business process allows you to request, pass on and manage assortment list data automatically or manually (directly).

The assortment list provides an overview of all the data relevant to the merchandise assortment held in a store or at a customer. It can either be printed or transmitted in the form of IDocs.

The assortment list is also the basis for planning replenishments of perishables or for placing store orders in SAP Retail Store.

The assortment list has the following functions:

Supporting visual inspection planning in stores

Assortment lists provide an overview of the listed merchandise in the store with all the relevant data (for example, the merchandise category to which an article belongs or the vendor).

It provides information on the articles that a site can or should order in a particular period.
It provides wholesale customers with information on articles in the assortment.
It provides information on how the articles are to be presented and sold in the stores (giving information on placement labels and sales prices, and layout instructions).
It provides information on any special article features (for example, promotions, seasonal merchandise).
It provides information on how Assortment Management affects the way site data is distributed.
It provides the data base for POS systems or for additionals systems.

Prerequisites

Partner profiles must be maintained for the recipient before assortment list data can be transferred electronically to the file system.

Process flow

There are two ways to generate an assortment list:

Generating the data automatically

If you use the automatic option, you can have the system generate either a full version or a change version in cycles.

Generating the data manually

You can either prepare the assortment list for specific articles or carry out initialization (the manual creation of a full version).

If you use the automatic option, you schedule a background job, providing the system with the necessary data (for example, the assortment list type, recipient).
The system determines from the assortment list type the next date for creation of the assortment list and, if a change version is being prepared, checks which changes are relevant for the recipient.
If you use the manual option, you select the articles and recipients for which you wish to generate an assortment list.
The system prepares the data for the assortment list and arranges it according to the criteria you selected.
Depending on how the assortment list type is configured, the system make the data available to POS Interface - Outbound, prints it out and/or makes it available for Version Management.

Note

All the key pieces of information on articles are managed together in Version Management. Assortment list data can be printed, displayed and reorganized here directly and used to create tickets. You can also generate sales tickets by using assortment list data.

The system updates the status and the POS interface document flow.