Creating Store Groups (SAP Library - Merchandise and Assortment Planning)

Creating Store Groups

Use

In the Best Practice Scenario for Merchandise and Assortment Planning, you can plan at "Store group" level. Store groups show how strong sales are for the stores within each group in a particular merchandise category.

Activities

You can carry out the following activities in Customizing for Merchandise and Assortment Planning, in the sequence stated below:

Define the store group key and the store group description (transaction WXP53).

To do this, use the following path in the SAP Reference IMG Logistics - General ® Merchandise and Assortment Planning ® Basic Settings ® Store Grouping ® Create Store Grouping.

Create assignments:

You assign stores to the store group for each merchandise category manually. Do this using the following path:

Retailing ® Info Systems/Planning ® Merchandise and Assortment Planning ® Master Data ® Store Groups ® Create/Change Store Assignments

Alternatively, you fill the assignment table using a grouping algorithm that you have programmed specifically for this purpose.

Example

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

Store Group	Sales
Group 1	upto Euro 200,000
Group 2	from Euro 200,000
Group 3	from Euro 500,000

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

Assignment of Store Groups to Assortments for Prepack Allocation Planning

Prepack Allocation Planning is used to generate allocation tables for prepacks, using assortments. Store groups in Merchandise and Assortment Planning can be used to do this. Store groupings in Merchandise and Assortment Planning can be used in this also.

To use this function, assign store groups to assortments without any restriction of the merchandise category concerned. This can be done

in transaction WXP74 or
by selecting Retailing ® Info Systems/Planning ® Merchandise and Assortment Planning ® Master Data ® Store Groups ® Create/Change Assortment Assignments.

Depending on whether or not you use assortments in prepack allocation planning, you can use

merchandise category-independent assignments of store groups to assortments (transaction WXP74) or

direct merchandise category-independent assignments of stores to store groups (transaction WXP53)