Settings for Slow Seller Management

Defining and Assigning Fiscal Year Variants for Rule-Base Markdown Control in SAP BW

To use rule-based markdown control, you must assign a fiscal year variant. You can define your own fiscal year variant or use an existing variant.

Make sure that the slow seller analysis is scheduled after the end of a posting period because during a posting period, markdown proposals are not generated for the current posting period.

Note Note

A posting period runs from Sunday to Saturday. You schedule the slow seller analysis on Sunday for the week just passed. In principle, you can use any fiscal year variant for slow seller management. Make sure, however, that the fiscal year variant in slow seller management matches the fiscal year variant of the InfoCubes that are used for the markdown analysis.

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To assign a fiscal year variant, in the SAP Customizing Implementation Guide choose Start of the navigation path SAP NetWeaver Next navigation step SAP Business Information Warehouse Settings for Business Content Retail Merchandise and Assortment Planning Set Fiscal Year Variant. End of the navigation path

Additional Settings for Slow Seller Management

There are additional settings for slow seller management in the SAP Customizing Implementation Guide under Start of the navigation path SAP NetWeaver Next navigation step SAP Business Information Warehouse Settings for Business Content Retail Merchandise and Assortment Planning Set Slow Seller Management. End of the navigation path

Here you define:

Tolerance period
Switch for updating the first goods receipt data during the upload
Queries in SAP BW that serve as data sources for the slow seller analysis
Analysis levels
Price activation levels
Permitted values for the flexible characteristics of the markdown profile