Purpose
This component allows you to create merchandise assortments and assortment modules and assign articles to them. Articles can be automatically assigned directly to assortments as a result of checking rules during article maintenance or assortment maintenance functions. Alternatively, you can manually assign articles to assortment modules and then in turn assign the modules to assortments. In both cases, the system automatically generates listing conditions for each valid combination of article and assortment.
By assigning assortments to sites you control which assortments — and which articles — a store can purchase or sell. A site cannot purchase or sell an article that is not contained in one of its assortment.
When you create listing conditions, you also specify a listing period. This determines the timeframe during which sites can procure and sell the articles.
Implementation Considerations
This component is required for SAP Retail.
SAP recommends that you use the automatic listing procedures (for example, in the integrated article maintenance function) to establish listing conditions, rather than creating assortment modules or listing procedures manually in the assortment function in order to establish listing conditions. Listing articles manually or creating assortment modules manually requires significant processing time and can have a severe impact on system performance.
Integration
To create assortments, you must also configure the Merchandise Category, Article Master Data, and Site Master Data components.
In addition:
If you want to |
Then you must use |
Create assortment modules specifically for promotions |
Promotion component |
Determine whether certain wholesale customers can purchase certain articles |
Customer Master Data component |
Features
Once you enable multiple assignment in a productive system, you can no longer return to the 1:1 assignment restriction.
It is possible to upgrade from an older release of R/3 Enterprise and be able to use the multiple assignment function. However, this requires some additional programs to be run during implementation.
Constraints
This component does not:
See also:
Article Master