Upgrading to Multiple Assignments of Assortments to Sites 

Purpose

Older releases of the ERP system restricted you to a 1:1 assignment of assortments to sites. That is, each store could have exactly one assortment, and each assortment could be assigned to exactly one store. In the current release you can choose between the old 1:1 assignment and the new n:m assignment. This less restrictive assignment enables you to copy the assortment of an existing reference site to other stores (useful, for example, for new store openings), and allows you to fine-tune a store’s offering by adding one or more general assortments to it.

Upgrading from single assignments (1:1) to multiple assignments (n:m) should be undertaken only after careful consideration and with the involvement of an experienced consultant. This is because changing the assignment method impacts all aspects of the listing process.

Process Flow

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       1.      In Customizing for General Control of Retail Master Data, select the Multiple Assignment is Active flag.

Once you set this flag in the productive system, you can no longer switch back to the old 1:1 assignment restriction.

       2.      Create general assortments as needed using transaction WSOA1.

       3.      Assign these general assortments to your sites according to your business requirements (transaction WSOA6).

       4.      Run the listing program for all of the general assortments you have created (transaction MM42 or WSM8).

       5.      To streamline performance and eliminate any duplicate assignments that may have been created during the above steps, run the following two reports:

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                            a.      Transaction WSUP1

This report checks each site to see whether any article has been listed both in the site’s local assortment and any general assortments assigned to it. All such duplicate or overlapping assignments are shown in the report. You can then choose to delete those listing conditions in the local assortment.

                            b.      Transaction WSUP2

This report checks each site to see whether its local assortment or any of its general assortments are assigned to the same assortment module. If so, the assignments are redundant in the local assortment, and you can delete them.