Listing procedures determine how the system checks the assignment of articles to assortments (and thereby to the stores, customers, or distribution centers using those assortments).

There are two methods of using listing procedures:

• Manual assignment of assortment modules to assortments.

• Automatic assignment of articles using predefined rules.

Listing procedures control the result of the listing process. They allow a high level of flexibility in Assortment Management.

To make it easier to use the listing procedures offered by the system, the following can be predefined:

• In Customizing you can define whether the listing procedure maintained for the local assortment in the listing view of the site maintenance screen will have priority over the listing procedure selected by the user during the listing transaction. This procedure is always used for the assortment, and the system will ignore any other procedure a user might enter.

1. A listing procedure overrides a procedure that has been defined for assortments (for promotions, for example)

Customizing for Assortments setting: AssortmentListPro parameter = blank

2. A listing procedure is defined for assortments and overrides the listing procedures entered in Assortment Planning.

• One listing procedure can be defined as the standard procedure (this procedure automatically appears as the default).

• One procedure can be defined as the default for listing promotions.

• Individual procedures can be defined in the user master data via user parameters.

• Separate authorizations can be defined for each listing procedure.