Customizing Settings for the Assortment List
Exercise 13: Assortment List
Exercise Objectives
After completing this exercise, you will be able to:
• Request assortment lists and set the corresponding control options.
Business Example
You want to inform your store about changes in your assortment, and therefore you use a new assortment list for articles of certain merchandise categories.
Task 1:
Generate a new assortment list.
1. Now generate an assortment list of assortment list type S for site R1##, the merchandise categories RS11110 to RS11120 and distribution channel RG10/R1 by requesting it manually.
2. Display the assortment list you have created and check the sorting and the validity of your assortment list. Where are these settings made?
Task 2:
You are now dealing with the settings for the assortment list in Customizing.
1. Display the settings for assortment list type S in Customizing.
2. How often is a change version generated before a full version is sent to the store again?
3. How long is the validity period of a generated assortment list?
Task 3:
In the assortment list profile you define how the assortment list should be sorted in the store in question.
1. Which assortment list profile is assigned to store R1##?
2. Display the settings for the assortment list type S in the assortment list profile RSUP in Customizing.
3. Which sorting procedure is used in profile RSUP in the assortment list type S?
4. Are layout modules also analyzed in this assortment list setting?
Task 4:
Assortment list functions and options
1. How can the SAP Retail assortment list support the MRP controller?
Mention the assortment list functions and options. Which ones are options important for planning by visual inspection?
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2. Which three prerequisites must be fulfilled so that an article can be included in an assortment list, and so that an assortment list can be created for a store.
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3. How can articles be grouped together for an assortment list? Name the field in the article master data.
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Solution 13: Assortment List
Task 1:
Generate a new assortment list.
1. Now generate an assortment list of assortment list type S for site R1##, the merchandise categories RS11110 to RS11120 and distribution channel RG10/R1 by requesting it manually.
a) Retailing: Master Data → Assortment/Listing → Assortment List → Generate → Manual Selection:
Sales Organization RG10
Distribution Channel R1
Customer No. -Plant R1##
Merchandise Category RS11110to RS11120 Assortment List Type S
Choose Program → Execute or F8
2. Display the assortment list you have created and check the sorting and the validity of your assortment list. Where are these settings made?
a) Retailing: Master Data → Assortment/Listing → Assortment List
→ Display
Sales Organization RG10
Distribution Channel R1
Customer No. -Site R1##
Assortment List Type S Time Period for Selection Today Program → Execute
Sorting is carried out according to vendor and merchandise category, and the validity period is 5 days.
The settings for the validity and sorting are made in the assortment list profile for the assortment list type in Customizing.
Task 2:
You are now dealing with the settings for the assortment list in Customizing.
1. Display the settings for assortment list type S in Customizing.
a) IMG: Logistics - General → Assortment → Assortment → Assortment List Types
2. How often is a change version generated before a full version is sent to the store again?
Answer: Four times
3. How long is the validity period of a generated assortment list?
Answer: 7 days
Task 3:
In the assortment list profile you define how the assortment list should be sorted in the store in question.
1. Which assortment list profile is assigned to store R1##?
a) Retailing: Master Data → Site Data → Site → Display b) Site R1##
c) Go to the POS tab
The assortment list profile is RSUP.
2. Display the settings for the assortment list type S in the assortment list profile RSUP in Customizing.
a) IMG: Logistics - General → Assortment → Assortment List → Maintain Profile for Assortment Lists
b) Select the assortment profile RSUP and choose Maintain assortment list profile parameters .
c) Double-click the assortment list type S.
3. Which sorting procedure is used in profile RSUP in the assortment list type S?
Task 4:
Assortment list functions and options
1. How can the SAP Retail assortment list support the MRP controller?
Mention the assortment list functions and options. Which ones are options important for planning by visual inspection?
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a) The assortment list supports the MRP controller in planning by visual inspection insofar as the assortment list can be printed out in paper form, can be sorted according to the layout and can contain the purchase order values.
2. Which three prerequisites must be fulfilled so that an article can be included in an assortment list, and so that an assortment list can be created for a store.
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a) An assortment profile must be assigned to the store.
b) An assortment list type must be assigned to the article.
c) The article must be listed in the assortment of the store.
3. How can articles be grouped together for an assortment list? Name the field in the article master data.
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a) You can use the assortment list type to group together the articles (for example, assortment list type for food, fashion, and so on)
Lesson Summary
You should now be able to:
• Create an assortment list for the listed articles
• Create different assortment list types for an individual cycle control in the system
• Maintain various assortment list profiles for your stores
Unit Summary
You should now be able to:
• Explain the terms assortment and listing, and their use in SAP Retail
• Name the different ways of managing assortments
• Decide which of these options are suitable for your assortment management
• Name the different listing procedures and describe their options
• Choose a suitable listing procedure to list articles
• Create an assortment list for the listed articles
• Create different assortment list types for an individual cycle control in the system
• Maintain various assortment list profiles for your stores