The stock overview in SAP Retail Store 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.

You can access the stock overview via merchandise categories and generic articles, taking account of certain classification characteristics. You can also perform analyses.

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.