Client Data

Fashion Attributes

You can maintain fashion attributes for an article at the client level. The system allows you to maintain up to three fashion attributes at any time.

The description of these fashion attributes are maintained in the Customizing for Maintain Descriptions of Fashion Attributes under  SAP Implementation Guide Logistics - General SAP Fashion Management . For example, fabric, style, and color can be your fashion attributes.

The values of these fashion attributes can be maintained using the report program Maintain Fashion Attributes.

To access this report, on the SAP Easy Access Retailing (transaction W10M ) menu, choose  SAP Fashion Management Fashion Attributes Maintain Fashion Attributes . You can also use the transaction FSH_MG_ATTRI to execute the report.

Fashion attributes can be used to search articles. The attributes maintained for an article also apply to all the variants of the article.

Seasons

Seasons form an important aspect in the product life cycle for the fashion industry. The production of fashion wear is determined or varies qualitatively according to the season for which it is manufactured.

A season type helps in determining the listing period of an article. You maintain the default season type to be assigned to a season in the Customizing for Maintain Default Season Type under  SAP Implementation Guide Logistics - General SAP Fashion Management Seasons .

Season Usage

You can maintain Season Usage as one of the Additional data of the article. Based on this, season information is updated in the corresponding sales and purchase documents.

Season can be assigned to a generic article. This assignment is inherited by the variants of the article. You can also add or change a season for a variant.

You can use one of the following levels at which an article can use season data:

Season Active in Inventory Management and Batch Management

Season active in inventory management indicates season processing is active in inventory management. It stores season, collection, and theme information in stock tables, batch master and in material movement documents. It also validates the season information in goods movement.

You have maintained Season Act. IM as one of the Additional data of the article. By selecting the Season Act. IM checkbox, you also make season active in inventory management option available for sites.

Material Conversion ID

The material conversion ID controls the characteristic value conversion based on individual articles. In addition to material ID, you can also control characteristic value conversion using user conversion ID and customer/vendor conversion ID. You maintain Mat.Conv. ID for an article.

For more information, see Characteristic Value Conversion.

Site Data

Season Active in Inventory Management and Batch Management

If Season Active in Inventory Management checkbox is selected for an article, that is, at the site level, then batch management becomes mandatory and the Batch management checkbox in the General control parameters is automatically selected by the system. This will also result in an automatic check to be carried out on the article. Batch management maintained for an article is copied to its variants.

Season active in inventory management is available at the site level only if has been maintained at the client level, that is, if you have maintained Season Act. IM as one of the Additional data of the article.

Batch management also results in generation of batch numbers in sales and purchasing documents. If you want to generate unique batch numbers during batch management, you can do so by selecting the Discrete Batch No. checkbox. This checkbox cannot be used on its own. It can only be used in combination with the Batch Management checkbox. The choice you make for the article is applied to all its variants.

Order Allocation Run (ARun)

Order allocation run (ARun) does optimized assignment of existing stock to open sales order requirements. When there is a stock shortage, for example, the allocation run ensures an automatic assignment of the available stock to the open requirements according to your business requirements.

Order Allocation Run can also be maintained at the site master level. In case of generic articles, you can either maintain the distribution profile of the article in a site or ARun, you cannot maintain both at the same time. ARun should always be not relevant for reference CD, reference and non-reference stores.

You can choose to make a variant of a generic article relevant in the Order ARun field. This setting will also apply to all the other variants of the generic article in that DC. This setting can be made only for variants of an article in a non-referenced DC.