Very often there is a question or requirement from Retail business to see real available stock of store in the system. For manufacturing or logistics industries (excluding decentralized operations or systems) this is rather easy task with usage of the Available to Promise (ATP) functionality as its wide configuration range should be a sufficient source....

Introduction: Merchandising /Material Group Hierarchy is an hierarchy available for categorizing articles from a purchase/procurement business process point of view. Merchandising Category/Material group is the last level of the hierarchy. For understanding this Hierarchy concept below resources are of big help. Merchandise Category Hierarchy: WHY (Business View) Merchandise Category Hierarchy From a functional point of....

Distribution curves are objects that hold quantity distribution ratios across different variant-creating characteristic value combinations. For example, you can use distribution curves to distribute the quantities across different variants if the quantity is provided at generic article level. So Distribution Curve application is applicable to Generic article level and it distributes quantity on variant level.....

In Fashion industry ordering process always aligned with the particular season and for order fulfilment purchasing team will always have a set of dates by when order should reach them to supplier. If the orders do not reach within the predefined date, then the order could be rejected or acceptance/processing might be postponed to future....

Application variants to control/restrict variants of an article for which sales order, purchase orders, stock transport orders (STO) can be created. You use application variants to restrict the usage of variants for sales or purchasing application by creating a condition record. An Application Variant is always a segment from a Article Variants. Using application variant....

In Fashion and Retail industry articles can be measured using different standards or scales in different countries or geographical regions. it is very common to have same physical size called by different scales in different countries. This is the reason we have US Size, UK size, etc printed in Shoes. For example, in Men’s footwear....