Use the Best Practice Scenario for Merchandise and Assortment Planning to plan at store group level. Use store groups to indicate, for example, how strong sales are for the stores within each group in a particular merchandise category.

Use the sequence detailed below to run the following activities in Customizing for Merchandise and Assortment Planning:

1. Define the store group key and the store group description.
2. Create assignments:

• Assign stores manually to store groups for each merchandise category.
• Fill the assignment table using a grouping algorithm that you have programmed specifically for this purpose.

Stores are to be split into three groups according to the sales for each merchandise category.

Store 1 records annual sales of approximately 300,000 € with merchandise category A. Store 1 can therefore be assigned to group 2.