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Table of content
1 Season
1.1 Markdown Planning
1.1.1 Markdown Rules
1.1.1.1 Markdown Rule Processing
1.1.1.1.1 Markdown Rule Processing
1.1.2 Markdown Types
1.1.3 Markdown Plans
1.1.3.1 Markdown planning
1.1.3.1.1 Creating a Markdown Plan
1.1.4 Activating Markdown Price Phases and Monitoring the Results
1.1.5 Exception Analysis and Automatic Creation of Markdown Plans
1.1.6 Importing Markdown Planning Data into the SAP System
1.1.7 Season: Currency Conversion in Markdown Planning
1.2 Markdown Profile Assignment
1.2.1 Article Selection
1.2.2 Worklist
1.2.3 Profile Assignment
1.2.4 Reorganizing Profile Assignments

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1 Season
Purpose
Currently the Season component consists of markdown planning.
Markdown planning allows you to establish dates for scheduled markdowns before the start of a season and monitor planned and actual sales on a regular
basis to see how well the markdown strategy is working. It is also possible to schedule markups as well as markdowns, although this is less common.

Implementation Considerations
These functions are part of the business function Retail Enhancements (ISR_RETAILSYSTEM) that you usually activate with the Retail business function
set.
To create markdown plans, you must first configure the Article Master , Pricing , and Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) or Retail Information
System (RIS) components.
You must first create markdown rules (standard discount schedules you use most frequently) in the Markdown Planning function, then create markdown types
in Customizing. You will then be able to create markdown plans.

Integration
Markdown Planning passes markdown information on scheduled dates to the Pricing component, so that prices for clearance merchandise can be
recalculated automatically. The system may round prices to print points you have established, if applicable. Markdowns do not take effect until you
activate them.
New prices are subsequently downloaded to the store POS systems via the POS interface.
During the season, sales data is passed from SAP BW or RIS to Markdown Planning so that you can compare planned and actual revenues.

Features
You can schedule dates for multiple markdowns based on percentages of the original sales price.
You can create standard markdown rules that reflect your pricing policies, then assign them to merchandise, thus streamlining the markdown planning
function.
You can enter plans for a range of articles and stores.
You can assign a standard markdown rule to an article while you are entering plan data, then modify the rule at that time. The modifications only apply to
this instance, and do not affect other articles to which that rule has been or may be assigned.
An interactive planning screen allows you to create plans and see how they affect expected revenues. If you modify a markdown percentage, expected
revenues are automatically recalculated on the screen. You can continue to make adjustments until you are satisfied with the results.
You can check whether an article is listed in two or more different markdown plans or promotions with overlapping validity periods.
Mass maintenance allows you to make changes to several articles or price phases at once, making data entry easier and less prone to error.
You can define markdown price points that differ from those in standard pricing.
Prices can be rounded down automatically (for example, for an item that normally sells for $9.99, a 50% markdown yields a markdown price of $4.99, not
$5.00). This ensures compliance with any legal requirements that stipulate that absolute price reductions must correspond to the entire percentage
specified.
Special authorizations for markdown plans, for example, at merchandise category level, sales organization level or distribution chain level. This means
that planners can change their own data but can only view coworkers' plans in read-only mode.
Although you can include several articles in your plan, you can choose to activate some and not others, or activate only certain markdown phases for a
specific article.
Actual data is updated automatically. This includes not only sales revenue, but also weeks-on-hand, current inventory and value, or mount of open
purchase orders, etc.
You can make modifications at any time, even adding or deleting price phases (dates when markdowns are to occur). You can also delete markdown
plans entirely.
Multi-user environment is supported. This allows several people to work on a markdown plan simultaneously, although they cannot modify the same
article at the same time. (In other words, the lock is at item line level rather than at header data level.)

Note
To process markdown proposals that were planned and generated in the SAP Business Information Warehouse ( SAPBW ) and SAP Strategic
Enterprise Management ( SAPSEM ), you can use the Price Planning Workbench.
For more information, see Price Planning .

Constraints
The system does not suggest markdown percentages or any changes to your plan based on actual results. Instead, you decide, based on sales revenues,
whether to modify your plan or not.

Note
SAP also provides a seasonal model with weighting factors that can be used to forecast seasonal consumption in planning. Weighting factors for forecasts
are calculated on the basis of weekly consumption figures in the previous year and are taken into account when forecast values are determined.
For more information on the seasonal model with weighting factors, see the relevant general documentation.

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See also:
Pricing
Promotion

1.1 Markdown Planning

Use
The sale of seasonal merchandise is strictly controlled by pricing strategies. Price markdowns are most often used to boost the sale of an article, but
occasionally markups are used for articles that are selling exceptionally well. The objective of markdown planning is a balance between ensuring that as little
stock as possible remains at the end of a season while minimizing the loss of revenue due to price reductions.

Activities
After carefully planning your markdown strategy in SAP Retail, you can monitor the planned vs. actual results in the system on a regular basis to see how well
the strategy is working. You control the markdown plan, so you can make changes at any time if you see that sales are doing better or more poorly than
expected.

Note
The system does not suggest markdown percentages or any changes to your plan based on actual results.
There is also an archiving object for markdowns (W_MARKDOWN). See the archiving documentation for more information.
See also:
Pricing: Currency Conversion

1.1.1 Markdown Rules

Use
Before you can use the markdown planning function, you must first create one or more markdown calculation rules. Later you will apply these rules to specific
plans or even to individual articles or merchandise categories.
Markdown rules specify:
The time interval between markdowns
The percentage of the original price at which the merchandise is to be sold during each price phase
The percentage of total sales you expect to achieve for each price phase

Example
Calendar days after start

% of original sales price

% of sales

100

50

60

75

30

90

50

10

120

33.3

Day 0 is when the merchandise is originally displayed in the store. Within the first 60 days, you expect that 50% of your stock will be sold at the full price. At
that point you will mark the merchandise down by 25%, so that it now sells for 75% of its original price; this will contribute another 30% to sales. After another
month, you again mark the price down by 25%, so that now the price is half off the original, and this will bring another 10% in sales. And so on for the
remaining month.
The first line is always reserved for the starting point, which by definition is 100% of the original price. The system automatically inserts it for you. Your total
sales volume need not equal 100%.
Percents need not be whole numbers.
To enter a mark up , use a percent that is larger than the previous line (e.g., 110% of original price).
These are generic rules. They do not yet apply to any actual merchandise (you will do that in a subsequent step). You may want, for example, to have different
markdown rules for womens fashions, school supplies, Christmas novelties, etc. You can create as many or as few rules as you want.

Activities
Markdown rules are a tool for standardizing your markdown procedures across product lines and streamlining your planning entries. When you apply a standard
markdown rule to specific merchandise, you can change the parameters of the rule at that time: omitting or adding price phases, elongating the time periods,
or otherwise tailoring the rule to the circumstances. These changes will not affect the standard rule itself, only your application of it in this specific instance.

1.1.1.1.1 Markdown Rule Processing

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1.1.1.1.1 Markdown Rule Processing

Purpose
This business process enables you to define markdown rules for using in the course of a season.
You usually plan markdowns using a few fixed rules which define the extent of the markdown after a certain number of days, and the quantities of articles that
are to be sold within these defined periods.
You therefore define the markdown rules before you create a markdown plan.
At the end of this process a markdown rule has been created.

Process Flow
1. You assign name and number to the markdown rule.
1. For each phase, you maintain the duration, the price change as a percentage of the original price, and the share of the quantity sold.
1. You save the markdown rule.
Notes and Remarks
Once you have defined a markdown rule, you can store this in the markdown type. When you create a markdown plan, this rule is used as the default for
all items. You can change the markdown rule for the individual items in the markdown plan.
The markdown rule is usually copied from the header data to each article. However, in the article selection screen, you can enter a different markdown
rule. For example, you might want to use different markdown rules for different merchandise categories.
For information on markdown planning processing, please see the Season section of the implementation guide (IMG).

1.1.1.1.1 Markdown Rule Processing

Procedure
1. On the Create Markdown Plan: Initial Screen , enter a unique number and choose Continue .
2. Give the markdown rule a name.
3. Maintain the duration of the individual price phases.
4. For each price phase, define the markdown as a percentage of the original price.
5. For each price phase, define the quantity of the article that you want to have sold at the end of each price phase.
6. Save the markdown rule.

1.1.2 Markdown Types

Use
After you have created markdown rules, you create markdown types and assign rules to them. You can include a reference site, reference distribution chain, or
reference price list in the markdown type, in which case the system will be able to suggest sales prices for articles in the markdown plan based on these
references. If you do not enter this organizational data in the markdown type, the system will try to find the sales price for the distribution chain for the articles
you selected. If it does not find this price, the system will not suggest any markdown sales prices.

Integration
You create these entries in Customizing for Retail. (Later when you create markdown plans, you will need to enter markdown types for them.)

Example
You might define markdown types to distinguish between womens fashions in your upscale department stores vs. your discount outlets:

Markdown type

Markdown rule

Sales org.

Distribution channel

005

WF-UP

USA

R1

006

WF-UP

CAN

R1

007

WF-DISC-US

USA

DU

008

WF-DISC-CAN

CAN

DC

In this example, your US and Canadian organizations would apply the same markdown rules for womens fashions in upscale stores but would handle discount
outlet markdowns differently.
The advantage of using markdown types is that default information is copied to each article, thus saving data entry time.

1.1.3 Markdown Plans

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Definition
A markdown plan is a specific instance where you want to implement scheduled price changes for certain merchandise. For example, you have received a
shipment of swimwear and want to schedule markdowns for it through the end of the season.

Use
First you must select a markdown type for this plan; this will cause certain data (markdown rule and sales price) to default to each article in the plan. Then you
select stores or price lists and an assortment of articles for which the markdowns are to be applied. Articles and stores can be chosen based on various
selection criteria.
The system then displays the articles in the plan, each on its own line. The markdown rule is copied from the markdown type (or from the article selection
screen if you entered a markdown rule there) and appears on each line, but you can change them on a line-by-line basis if necessary. You can also add or
delete articles from the list.
Alternatively, you can choose Mass maintenance if you have a large number of articles to maintain; this allows you to change one or more parameters and
have the system copy the data to all the selected articles. Instead of entering quantities by hand, you can use the mass maintenance tool to determine the
quantity of unrestricted stock currently in inventory for each article and automatically insert this quantity in the markdown plan. You can modify this amount
afterwards, if you wish.
You enter the total quantity of each article that you plan to sell, along with the starting sales price. When you press Enter , the system shows detailed
calculations, including the planned revenues based on the purchase price, expected write-off amount based on the sale prices for all the price phases for that
article, planned residuals (both quantity and value), and so on. (You dont have to wait until you have filled out the screen before pressing Enter; you can
keep making changes and pressing Enter to update the calculations until you are satisfied with the results.)

Note
The markdown table of articles is very wide. Use the scroll bar under the table to see all the columns. You can easily move columns by clicking and
dragging the column headers to the left or right, and can save the customized view as a screen variant.
By clicking a button, you can expand the display to show each price phase for each article, including such additional information as expected sales quantity,
sales price at each price phase, expected revenue, margins, and so on. The time period for each price phase is based on the markdown rule you applied to it.
You can delete price phases for an individual article, add new phases, or change the quantities or prices.
You can also branch to a screen where you can maintain the list of sites and/or price lists to which the plan applies. This displays such key figures as planned
sales at sales price, planned sales at purchase price, gross margin, total value of the markdown, and so on. You can also display the corresponding price list.
By default, the system always shows all prices and quantities valid for a given distribution chain; however, you can switch between distribution chains if you
wish. You can also add or delete sites from the list as desired.

1.1.3.1 Markdown planning

Use
This business process enables you to plan markdowns for articles in the course of a season.
At the beginning of the season, you can plan markdowns for fashion merchandise to apply at particular intervals. It is of interest to know what quantities are
sold at what price and when, and what the results of the markdown will be (for example reduced margin, achievable margin). The markdown planning functions
enable you to simulate this data and subsequently activate it.
You can also carry out a target/actual comparison for past price phases, so that you can adjust new price phases accordingly if, for example, you notice
considerable differences.
At the end of the process you have created a markdown plan and can then create pricing conditions.

Procedure
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

You enter the markdown type.

You create a worklist to plan the markdowns.
You can select parameters to extend the worklist.
You assign the markdown plan a name and unique number. You check the basic markdown rule, create the start date for the first price, the planned
sales quantity, and the final price for each article in the markdown plan.
You can define the initial stock and choose whether price points are to be adjusted.
For each article price phase, you check the start date, the price change as a percentage of the original price, the planned sales quantity and the share of
the quantity sold.
You can change the final price for each article price phase.
You test the price calculation and deal with errors, if necessary.
You activate one or more article price phases.
You save the markdown plan.

Notes and Remarks

For information on markdown planning, refer to the Season section of the implementation guide (IMG).

1.1.3.1.1 Creating a Markdown Plan

Procedure
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1. On the Create Markdown Plan screen, enter the markdown type and choose Continue .
1. Select the distribution chains, articles, sites and/or price lists that you want to plan the markdown for.
1. Choose Execute .

Note
You can display a report showing errors that occurred during selection.
1. (Optional) Choose the Selection icon to extend the worklist selected in Step 2.
1. Enter a short text and assign a number (if the system does not do this) and validity period for the markdown plan. Check the default markdown rule
proposed from the markdown type.
1. Check the Valid-from date for the articles. Enter a planned sales quantity, check the indicator for activating price point adjustment and define the final
price.
(Optional) Enter the initial stock.
(Optional) You can choose Mass Maintenance to process a large number of articles at once. You can also use it to change markdown rules, if you
wish.
(Optional) Display an overview of the distribution chains assigned to the markdown plan, along with sites and/or price lists and associated evaluations,
by choosing the Distribution chains tabstrip.
(Optional) Double click on the article to display an overview of all the details on the article in the markdown plan You can also maintain quantities and
prices here (at item and phase level).

Note
You can choose
Goto Header data
to view the organizational data relevant to price determination, the BW/RIS data that you need for a later
target/actual comparison, and the default values from the markdown rule.
1. Go to the overview of article price phases by choosing the Detailed planning tabstrip.
Check the validity of each price phase for the articles, check the price change as a percentage of the original price or enter the final price for each phase. The
system will calculate the change.
Check or enter the planned sales quantity, or enter a share of the quantity sold for each phase and the system calculates the sales quantity.
1. (Optional) For each article price phase, article or group of articles, simulate sales price calculation by selecting the required items (or have a report do
this) and choose Test price calculation at the bottom of the screen.

Note
If errors occur, these must be corrected before you can activate prices.
1. For each article price phase, article or group of articles, activate sales prices by selecting the required items (or have a report do this) and choose
Activate sales prices.
1. Do one of the following:
1. If you answer Yes to whether you want to activate correctly calculated sales prices, the system creates condition records and saves the markdown
plan.
2. If you answer No to this question, the sales prices are not activated and you change and save the markdown plan.
1. (Optional) Choose Plan/act. to view a comparison of target and actual data for an article or article price phases, and then adjust article price phases if
necessary.
1. (Optional) To check whether articles are listed in any other markdown plans or promotions during the same time frame, choose Select chosen items to
select the articles and execute the check function.
1. You can use the mass maintenance tool for price phases, just as you can on the main markdown planning screen. You can change data for several
articles at once; for example, you can change the markdown percentage for all articles in a given merchandise category.

1.1.4 Activating Markdown Price Phases and Monitoring the

Results
Use
Price phases are not in effect until you activate them. You can choose to activate some articles and not others, or only some price phases for a given article.
You can also activate prices either at the store level, price list level, or the distribution chain level.

Note
Before the sales prices are activated, margins and markups are only calculated from the purchase price and planned sales price within the Markdown
Planning component. When sales prices are activated, the full Retail calculation program is executed in the background, taking into account all other
conditions that may be applicable, including any price point tables that may exist.
After you select the price phases and choose Activate , a different screen appears. When you execute the program, the system displays a list of the articles
that it was able to activate successfully. Any article that it was unable to activate will be highlighted in red.

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Activities
Making Changes
Once the plan has started, the system will automatically update the actual revenues as time passes. Planned and actual statistics for each article are
displayed on the same screen: current sales revenue, number of weeks-on-hand, current inventory and value, amount of open purchase orders, etc. By
analyzing the constantly updated statistics, you can decide whether you need to modify any part of the markdown plan. You can make modifications at any
time, even adding or deleting price phases.
Background Processing
The following reports are available for background processing:
RWMFA200 activates markdown price phases in the background.
RWMFA210 allows you to test price calculations.
RWMFA300 performs plan/actual comparisons for all articles or only those you choose.
For more information, see Background Processing: Markdown Price Phase Activation

1.1.5 Exception Analysis and Automatic Creation of Markdown

Plans
Purpose
In addition to creating markdown plans manually, you can have the SAP system analyze sales data and let you know when a markdown is advisable. For
example, you can create an exception report that lists the 100 articles with the lowest sales revenue for the previous month. When the analysis is run,
Workflow will send a work item to the person responsible for markdown planning, who can then examine the results and determine whether price reductions are
warranted. If so, the system will create the markdown plans automatically.

Process Flow
You define an exception analysis in the Retail Information System, specifying that the exception must be run in batch mode.
In subsequent processing for the exception, specify that the data is to be transferred to Workflow as a table.
Define article and store as characteristics, and define sales revenue as a condition.
Assign the exception analysis to the standard event MarkdownCreate (business object MCYA) using transaction AWUW. Set the event coupling to the
exception as active.
Define the organizational data and assign it to Workflow task TS20000675. Then activate the event coupling to Workflow.
Execute the exception analysis in batch mode.
The person responsible receives a Workflow message. Based on the exception data, he or she then determines whether or not to proceed with markdowns. If
so, the system will create the markdown plans automatically.

1.1.6 Importing Markdown Planning Data into the SAP System

Use
Instead of creating markdown plans in the SAP system, you can create them in an external system (for example, Microsoft Excel or third-party planning
software) and import it into the SAP system.
The following BAPIs are available:
PriceMarkdownPlan.CreateFromData
This BAPI reads the planning data from the external system and imports it into the SAP system, which then uses the data to create the markdown plans
automatically. The system checks for authorization objects S_TCODE and W_MARKDOWN (for adding or creating).
PriceMarkdownPlan.GetList
This BAPI generates a list of markdown plans matching your selection criteria. For each markdown plan, the list shows the name and number of the
plan, the markdown type and rule used, and the starting date. You cannot make any changes to the list, but it does allow you to see what markdown
plans are currently scheduled and decide which need additional processing. The system checks for authorization object S_TCODE.
PriceMarkdownPlan.GetDetail
This BAPI provides detailed data for a particular markdown plan, such as header and item data, price phases, and site and pricelist data. This is for
display only. The system checks for authorization objects S_TCODE and W_MARKDOWN (for display).
PriceMarkdownPlan.ChangeRoughPlanning
This BAPI allows you to maintain data for an existing markdown plan at the header, item, site, and pricelist levels (rough-cut planning). You cannot
maintain price phases with this function. Header data is always reimported into the SAP system in full. To keep the data volume small, however, other
data is only reimported if it is different from what is currently in the database (that is, only changed data is transferred). The system checks for
authorization objects S_TCODE and W_MARKDOWN (for adding or creating or changing).

1.1.7 Season: Currency Conversion in Markdown Planning

Use
When the currency of the main sales price is changed, prices in markdown planning must be converted to the new currency. This conversion is, however, only
necessary for future markdown plans that are still in the planning stages.

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Features
Markdown plans can be selected according to different criteria and displayed in a selection list. The prices for these markdown plans can be converted
automatically to the new currency. Prices that have not yet been activated are converted to the new currency. Prices that have already been activated are
converted to the new currency and then automatically activated.

Activities
You can use the Euro Workbench to select the markdown plans that you want to convert to the new currency.
The conversion of the selected markdown plans is performed automatically via the Euro Workbench. This converts all the prices to the new currency and
saves them. The system automatically re-activates prices that were activated before the changeover.
See also:
ISR SAP Retail Season: Markdown Planning
ISR SAP Retail: Currency Conversion (Euro)
CA European Monetary Union: Currency Changeover in Retail (IS-R)
CA European Monetary Union: Euro Workbench

1.2 Markdown Profile Assignment

Use
You use the markdown profile assignment function to assign articles to markdown profiles that you have created in the SAP Business Information Warehouse
(SAP BW). You can use markdown profiles to monitor sales of goods during the current season and, depending on the time-based target values for sales and
the actual values, to propose price changes.
In markdown profile assignment in mySAP ERP, you can assign markdown profiles and change or delete existing assignments. However, you cannot display
or process the actual markdown profiles. This is only possible in SAP BW.

Note
You can assign markdown profiles in mySAP ERP or SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP SEM) to articles. If you want to use operational
assortment planning and control (OAPC) in mySAP ERP, you must use markdown profile assignment in mySAP ERP.
In OAPC, you can assign markdown profiles directly to articles from OAPC in mySAP ERP. If you release the planned articles, in other words if you have
created article master records, you can only process the assignments in the markdown profile assignment in mySAP ERP.

Prerequisites
In Customizing, you have activated the markdown profile assignment in mySAP ERP to be able to assign markdown profiles in mySAP ERP.
For more information, see Customizing for Logistics General under
Season Markdown Profile Assignment Activate Markdown Profile
Assignment.
In Customizing for markdown profile assignment, you have entered the BW system in which the markdown profiles have been created.
For more information, see Customizing for Logistics General under
Season Markdown Profile Assignment Edit Markdown Profile Assignment
.
You have created the markdown profiles in SAP BW that you want to assign to articles.
You have created article master records for all the articles to which you want to assign markdown profiles.
You have entered color and size characteristics for every article.

Procedure
1. You select the articles that you want to assign to markdown profiles, from a distribution chain. You can use various selection criteria to do this.
For more information, see Article Selection .
2. The system displays the articles selected in the worklist at the highest level; in other words, it displays single and generic articles but not variants of
generic articles. The system provides information about existing markdown profile assignments.
3. You select articles for the markdown profile assignment from the worklist and specify the level at which you will process the assignments.
For more information, see Worklist .

Note
Using fast maintenance you can go straight from article selection to markdown profile assignment without displaying or selecting the articles in the
worklist.
4. You process the markdown profile assignment of articles.
You can create new assignments or change and delete existing ones.
You can process articles individually or use mass processing.
For more information, see Profile Assignment .
5. The system checks the consistency of markdown profile assignments.
6. You monitor the error log that the system creates when inconsistencies occur and then correct any inconsistent markdown profile assignments.
7. The system updates the assignment table and extracts the table to SAP BW.
8. You can reorganize the profile assignments in mySAP ERP.
For more information, see Reorganizing Profile Assignments .

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Result
You have assigned markdown profiles to articles. Depending on the markdown profile selected and the actual sales made, the system proposes price changes
for your articles.
See also:
Operational Assortment Planning and Control

1.2.1 Article Selection

Use
You can use this function to select distribution chain articles to which you want to assign defined markdown profiles, or for which you want to change or
display existing markdown profile assignments.

Prerequisites
All the articles that you want to select for markdown profile assignments must belong to one distribution chain.

Features
You can select the following article categories:
Single articles
Generic articles
Variants of generic articles
To explicitly select a variant of a generic article, you enter the article number of the variant.
To select articles, you can enter criteria for the following areas:
Organizational level
Article hierarchy and merchandise category
Article master record
Existing profile assignment
Vendor

Note
You must enter at least an article number, merchandise category or article hierarchy level - you cannot select articles by simply entering
attributes such as size or color.
The system takes all the specified criteria into account during article selection.
The system does not perform a consistency check when you enter selection criteria

Example
When you enter article numbers and a vendor as selection criteria, the system does not check whether the vendor can deliver at least one of the
specified articles.
The system only checks this when it is creating the worklist.
You can use fast maintenance to go straight to markdown profile assignment without displaying the articles in the worklist.

Activities
On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose

Logistics

Retailing

Master Data

Season

Markdown Profile Assignments

Edit

1.2.2 Worklist
Use
The system displays all the articles that correspond to your selection criteria and existing markdown profile assignments in a table. You can select articles
from the worklist and define the level on which you want to assign markdown profiles and change or delete existing assignments.

Prerequisites
In Customizing, you have defined the colors with which the system is to highlight columns for the assignment levels and the explicitly selected variants.
In Customizing, you have specified whether the system is to set the Processed indicator for the articles that you have already processed in the profile
assignment.
For more information, see Customizing for Logistics General under
Season Markdown Profile Assignment Edit Markdown Profile Assignment
.

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Features
In the worklist, the system displays the articles that correspond to your selection criteria. The following are displayed:
Single articles
Generic articles
The system does not display variants of generic articles. The system highlights in color generic articles from which you have explicitly selected
one or more variants in the article selection, and sets a variant indicator.

Example
Article 4711 (trousers) is a generic article. The variants 4711001 (trousers, black, size 48) and 4711002 (trousers, brown, size 46) exist for this
generic article. If you have entered article number 4711001 in the article selection, the system only displays the generic article 4711 in the
worklist. However, the generic article is highlighted in color and the variant indicator is set.
You can include additional data in the table for articles displayed in the worklist. To do this, you must change the table structure in Customizing for
markdown profile assignment.
For more information, see Customizing for Logistics General under
Season Markdown Profile Assignment Edit Markdown Profile Assignment
.
The system displays the existing markdown profile assignments on each level.
Markdown profile details
The system displays the assigned markdown profile if a unique profile is assigned to one level.

Example
Profile 815 is assigned to article 4711 at generic article/size level. The system does not display which variants of 4711 exist. However, profile
815 is assigned to all the existing variants of article 4711.
Inequality symbol
If different profiles are assigned on the same level to the variants of a generic article, the system displays an inequality symbol.

Example
For article 4712, markdown profile assignments exist at generic article/color level. However, different markdown profiles are assigned to
different color variants, or color variants exist to which no markdown profile is assigned.
Depending on your Customizing settings, the system sets the Processed indicator for the articles that you have already processed in the profile
assignment.

Note
The Processed indicator is simply a means of monitoring your worklist. You can overwrite this indicator irrespective of your Customizing settings.
The system sorts the articles in ascending article number order. You can change the sort order.
You can highlight articles individually or in blocks, and select the level at which you want to assign markdown profiles to the articles.

Activities
You select articles and the level at which you want to process the markdown profile assignment.

1.2.3 Profile Assignment

Use
You can use this function to process assignments of markdown profiles to articles.

Prerequisites
In Customizing for Logistics General , you have defined the color that the system uses to highlight selected variants.
For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Logistics - General under
Assignment
.

Season

Markdown Profile Assignment

Edit Markdown Profile

Features
The system displays the articles that you have selected for assignment of markdown profiles. Depending on the level you selected, the following are
displayed:
Single article
Generic article
Variants of generic articles
The system highlights in color generic articles from which you have selected one or more variants in the article selection and sets a variant
indicator.

Example
In article selection, you choose the variant 4711001 (trousers, black, size 48) for article 4711 (trousers).
If you choose to assign markdown profiles on generic/single article level, the system displays generic article 4711 for variant 4711001. However, the

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generic article is highlighted in color and the variant indicator is set.

If you perform assignment on generic article/color level or generic article/size level, the system displays all the existing colors or sizes for the
generic article. The system sets the color and variant indicator for the item that corresponds to the characteristic black or the characteristic size 48
for variant 4711001.
If you perform assignment on generic article/color/size level, the system displays all the variants for generic article 4711. The system only highlights
variant 4711001 in color and sets the variant indicator.
The system displays which articles are blocked for processing. Reasons for blocking articles include:
A price article is defined for the article on a higher level.
Another user is processing the article.
You have no authorization to process the article.
You can use a Business Add-In (BAdI) to display additional data for the article in a customer-specific text field.
For more information about the BAdI, see the Implementation (IMG) for Logistics - General under
Season Markdown Profile Assignment
Enhancements Using Business Add-Ins
.
The system arranges the articles in ascending article number order. You can change this order, if necessary.
You can process the assignment of markdown profiles for articles.
You can create new assignments or change and delete existing ones.
You can process articles individually or use mass processing.

Activities
When you confirm or save your entries, the system checks whether the attributes for the selected markdown profiles are compatible with the attributes from
the master records for the articles. The system saves consistent assignments in the markdown profile assignment table. Instead of saving assignments it
displays them in a log.

Note
If you change attributes of a markdown profile or an article master record after you have assigned the markdown profile, the system does not generate any
of the resultant inconsistencies.
The system updates the markdown profile assignment table and extracts it to the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW).

1.2.4 Reorganizing Profile Assignments

Use
You use this function to reorganize markdown profile assignments in mySAP ERP.

Prerequisites
In Customizing for markdown profile assignment, you have entered the BW system in which the markdown profiles have been created and to which the system
extracts the assignment table.
For more information, see Customizing for Logistics General under

Season

Markdown Profile Assignment

Edit Markdown Profile Assignment

Features
If you delete existing markdown profile assignments, the system sets deletion indicators for the corresponding data records in the assignment table. It does
not delete the assignments in mySAP ERP. The next time the assignment table is extracted to the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), the
system deletes the corresponding assignments there.
Reorganizing profile assignments allows you to delete profile assignments that are no longer required in mySAP ERP.

Activities
On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose

Logistics

Retailing

Master Data

Season

Markdown Profile Assignments

Reorganize

You reorganize the profile assignments.

The system checks when the assignment table for the markdown profiles was last extracted to SAP BW. It then deletes all the assignments in mySAP ERP
for which a deletion indicator is set and which have already been deleted in SAP BW.

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