Retail:Artilce hierarchy issue

Hi Experts,

My situation is like this i want to create article hierarchy for the articles and then i want to create department stores and i want to create shop via department stores.After creatation of shops via depat stores.I want to assign those department stores to a mall say a big shopping mall.How can i do this?Could you help me out with the situation and tell me the procedure to get out from the situation.Hope for clear and complete answer.Thanks i advance.

Regards

Sandhya