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Assortment Management

process component

Definition

Manages the assortments (an assortment is a grouping of materials which may be ordered by a store or by a wholesaler), store layout elements (a Store Layout Element is an element of a layout presentation for a group of materials in a store), store fixtures and consumer product groups. The assortment management includes creating new assortment or store layout elements as well as changing, updating and deleting existing assortments or store layout elements. Store layout elements can be assigned to the assortments, an assortment can consist of one or several store layout elements. Moreover, one or several store fixtures can be assigned to a store layout element.

Technical Data

Software Component Version ESM ERP 606
Technical Name AssortmentManagement
Namespace http://sap.com/xi/ESM/ERP


Business Context and Use

The Assortment Management  process component covers the Retail business process assortment management for non-seasonal merchandise. The Layout Workbench within SAP for Retail is an application that supports Assortment Management .

Process Variants


Assortment Management - Process Component Variant Type View

 

The Assortment Management process component contains the following business process variant types:


Name Definition
... Initiated From Shelf Optimization Processing (3rd Party)  
... Initiated From ERP  

Integration

This process component communicates with other process components using the following interactions:

Structure

The following entities are part of this process component:

Service Interfaces

Assortment In A service interface to maintain assortment data.
Assortment Out An outbound asynchronous service interface for assortment data.
Manage Assortment In An interface to process individual assortments.
Manage Store Layout Element In An interface to process individual store layout elements.
Store Layout Element In A service interface to maintain store layout element data.

Business Objects

Assortment An assortment is a grouping of materials which may be ordered by a store or by a wholesaler.
Store Layout Element A Store Layout Element is an element of a layout presentation for a group of materials in a store. A store layout element can correspond to one or more store fixtures containing the offered materials and a placement sequence can be established within it.

Notes on SAP Implementation

To be able to use the  Assortment Management  process component, you must have SAP for Retail installed.