Merchandise and Assortment Planning 
Use
The Business Content for Merchandise and Assortment Planning (MAP) supports planning and reporting for all your business activities that involve assortments and merchandise. This enables you to plan on a value-basis and a quantity-basis. Planning can be done on any hierarchy level, for example, purchasing organization, store or product. You can, for example, define your strategic targets and then transfer them step by step to segment, assortment or product level. In doing so, you can compare test versions that were created manually and then develop a final version based on these test versions.
Planning is used to define important key figures, such as sales, gross revenue, margin, LUG and GMROI for a time period in the future (for example, a season). By comparing planning data, actual data and historical data, you can define and optimize future developments for your company.
You can define the planning process flow, the characteristics to be planned and the selection of key figures to be included in planning, according to your requirements.
In SAP BW you can create high-performing reports for the following areas: