Assortment & Listing difficulties

[former_member331665]

Dear Gurus,

I have gone through the threads but could not understand the how to perform following function. please also share some thoughts on role of Assortment Grade in Assortment & Article master.

1. Our client has 4 brands eg. A, B, C & D
2. Some of the articles of these brands uses same merchandise category.
3. Merd. cat: MC00XX
4. The client has 2 two distribution chain let's say D1 & D2.
5. I have created 2 general assortments X & Y for the distribution chains D1 & D2 respectively.
6. Brands A & B will only sell from dist. chain D2 with assortment Y
7. At Assortment level Y merchandise cat. MC00XX is assigned but same Merd. Cat. is also assigned to Assortment X.
8. I do not want articles of brands C & D get listed while listing for Assortment Y.
9. Please suggest how to control it.

Regards

Mradul

[former_member2417]

Hi Mradul,

Just Adding some inputs to Andras Answer,

Ex: You created Assortment X,Y,Z

and MC - (Corn Chips)

You have Article A1,A2,A3 coming under MC - Corn Chips

Lets Assume Grade 01,02,03

You Assign ( MC - Corn chips ) in Assortment X,Y,Z with grade 01,02,03

1. Assortment - X

Corn Chips - 01

2. Assortment - Y

Corn Chips - 02

3. Assortment - Z

Corn chips - 03

Imagine Grading rules is defined as ;

03 = 03 +02 + 01

02 = 02 + 01

01 = 01

Article A1 - have grade 01

Article A2 - have grade 02

Article A3 - have grade 03

When you perform Listing;

Article A1 will be only listed to Assortment X (Since MC - corn chips is assigned with 01) Grading rules

Article A2 will be listed to Assortment X and Y (Based on grading rule 02 = 02 + 01)

Article A3 will be listed to all Assortments X,Y and Z (Based on grading rule 03 = 03+02+01)

Hope this will clarify, So in your case you can restrict the Article listing to the assortment based on the grade.

[former_member331665]

Hi Andras,

Thank you for the reply.

Could you please help me understand what it (assortment grade & grade rule) actually controls?

How does it influence listing?

I am unable to make sense out of it.

I have checked in listing procedure is B1 & listing algorithm (Std) is mentioned with provision for Assortment grade.

Please help.

Regards

Mradul B

[andras_strobl]

Sorry, forgot to mention one point: in the assortment (WSOA2) you can assign the merchandise category along with assortment grade - restricting the assortment grade usage to the desired one by this.

[andras_strobl]

Hi Mradul,

I am not sure, whether this is what you meant, but have you tried the listing procedure 'B1' while performing the listing?

This will perform a check on the assortment grade as well - beside the merchandise category.

Assortment grade can be assigned to the articles on the Listing tab.

And in the customizing you can define assortment grade rules (or a new listing procedure as well, if you want to set it up differently than in B1 delivered by standard).

This is what you were looking for?

Best regards,
Andras