The stock overview provides you with current information on the stock of a particular article at all organizational levels. It tells you what quantities of an article are held at what storage locations or sites, and the type of stock concerned.

To make the most of the functionality offered by the stock overview, you are advised to maintain a merchandise category hierarchy and a site group hierarchy in addition to maintaining the corresponding article master data and site master data.

Since merchandise categories and generic articles are of particular importance in retail, you can create a stock overview at merchandise category level and generic article level, taking any classification characteristics into account.

To display the stock data for a generic article and its assigned variants , you have the following options in the stock overview:

• You can display an overview of the stock of a generic article at all organizational levels.
• For a particular organizational level, you can choose a stock type and display the stock for all of the variants of a generic article (stock split into variants).
• You can choose a variant and display an overview of its stock at all organizational levels.

The stock list can be displayed as a classical list or as a tree.