Creating Assortments for New Sites (SAP Library

Creating Assortments for New Sites

Use

Articles can be listed for assortments in various ways:

Via the Layout Workbench

Initiated directly in the article maintenance screen

Via special functions for specific manual article assortment maintenance

Via changes in assortments (representing retail sites) that influence assortment make-up

Via merchandise allocation or promotions (implicit listing)

In addition, if you are opening new stores or other sites and want to create assortments for them quickly, you can choose one of the following options:

You can build up the new site's assortment by adding articles from existing merchandise categories already assigned to it and executing transaction WSM8.

You can assign the contents of other assortments to the new site. Depending on whether the Customizing flag is set for multiple assignment of assortments to sites:

If it is not set, you simply copy the content (assigned articles) of an entire assortment into the local assortment of the new site.

If it is set, you can assign already existing general assortments to the new site. This causes all articles in these assortments to be valid for the new site. For the local assortment, you can copy listing conditions from various other assortments or generate them using the listing procedures.

Activities

Adding Merchandise Categories to an Assortment

You specify one or more merchandise categories and add them to the target assortment. For each combination of article and assortment, the system checks the existing listing conditions. If an article does not exist in the target assortment, the system will use one of the listing procedures to list the article.

Note

On the selection screen, you can choose one or more assortments and one or more merchandise categories to be used as sources. For performance reasons, it is strongly suggested that you select a range of assortments but very few merchandise categories at a time, rather than a few assortments and many merchandise categories.

Copying Article Assignments of an Existing Assortment to a New Assortment

If the new assortment will contain the same articles as one of your existing assortments, you need only copy the listing conditions from the source assortment. This is only meaningful, if the multiple assignment customizing flag is not set.

The source assortment may have several assortment modules assigned to it. When you copy one assortment to the other, in essence you are creating the same assignments in the target assortment. So, for example, if the source assortment has modules A, B, and C assigned to it, the target will also have modules A, B, and C assigned to it.

You can run the assortment copy program either online or in batch mode: In either case, the system checks to make sure there are no problems, which would prevent the listing.

Online: Once you specify the source and target assortments, the system will display all assortment modules assigned to the source; you can then choose which modules you wish to copy. If, during the program run, the system detects any errors, it lists the errors and allows you to skip over them and proceed with the copy, or else stop and otherwise resolve the problems.

Batch mode: Listing proceeds automatically, with all articles being copied from the source assortment to the target. Only those articles, which pass the listing check error-free, will be listed.