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Use

SAP Retail uses characteristics to distinguish styles from one another. Apparel usually has characteristics size and color, footwear may have an additional characteristic width. Characteristic value descriptions further define the merchandise; for example, a dress might have characteristics size and color, with characteristic value descriptions 14 and red respectively. These characteristics, however, vary by country. For example, British shoe size 10½ corresponds to American shoe size 9½.

For world-wide sales order processing, customers must be able to order merchandise in the sizes and colors they are familiar with. With some customizing, you can make this simple for both the customer and the order taker: the characteristic value descriptions in the style selection matrix can be displayed in different formats, based on the customer's language and nationality.

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Integration

You can define country groups, then assign one or more countries to each group. This is done in Customizing for article master data under retail-specific settings. All countries within a given group would use the same method of specifying style characteristics. For example, Great Britain and Ireland might belong to the same country group, but USA would not.

There is a transaction within the Merchandise Category component where you can create country-specific characteristics. Take, for example, the characteristic size. You assign different sets of characteristic value descriptions to size.

You can then assign country groups to each characteristic value description. So a combination of country group plus the characteristic value description would determine how the style matrix appears.

Example

In this example, assume you have defined the following country groups:

Characteristic

Country group

Country-specific characteristic
value description

Size (shoes)

01

02

03

8 8½ 9 9½ 10 10½

9 9½ 10 10½ 11 11½

43 44 45 46 47 48

Size
(women's blouses)

01

03

04

S M L XL

34/36 36/38 40/42 42/44

38/40 42/44 46/48 50/52

During a sales order transaction, when the order taker enters the customer's number, the system reads the customer's country from the customer master data. Based on this, the system knows to display the appropriate size. The order taker can also manually select a country group; for example, if an American customer is ordering from an American catalog, but is purchasing the merchandise for a friend in Britain who has only specified the British size, the order taker clicks a button to select the matrix for British sizes.

For more information on style characteristics and values descriptions, see Characteristics Processing.

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