With this feature, you can now create geographical location hierarchies using the Location Hierarchy service of Demand Data Foundation (DDF). This allows you to group locations by geography and across multiple sales organizations. For example, you might want to create a geographical location hierarchy called “All Stores in the Southwest”. For more information, see Maintain Location Hierarchies.

You can create and maintain geographical location hierarchies on your SAP Easy Access screen (transaction nwbc) under  Services Location Services Location Hierarchy .

The Create option has been changed for this feature:

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You can use geographical location hierarchies with SAP Merchandise Planning for Retail. For more information, including an overview of the new SAP HANA content objects, see Support for SAP Merchandise Planning for Retail.