Is Merchandise & Assortment planning is a part of IS-Retail?

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Is Merchandise & Assortment planning a part of IS-Retail?
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Hi Comandante,
Check the link below which explains the significant role of SAP MAP in BI-IP and this is primarily used for Fashion Industry and when integrated with SAP Retail(Through OAPC)yields the best results for Fashion Indistries.(Merchandise Planning,Store Planning,Strategic planning etc)
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Retail/SAPMerchandisingandAssortmentPlanning%28SAPMAP%29
Hope it helps
Best Regards,
Aram.

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I do definitely agree to your first statement - "<b>I am of the opinion that the domain knowledge cannot be generic. The person should be an expert in the specific business process.</b>"
however a business process expert is more of an enabler. n many cases you would find that business has the domain expertise in terms of domain expertise , but lacks the visibility in terms of the processes required and how to execute the same. A BPX would be a curious mix of Tecnology and business - someone who understands the system deficiencies and also helps eliminate some of the process redundancies that have reasulted due to multiple systems and procedures.
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1.Planning and reporting via MAP Business content for BI Integrated planning
2.Planning and reporting via MAP Business content for BPS
3.Planning in ECC based MAP functionality and reporting in BI
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i.     http://help.sap.com/SCENARIOS_BUS2007/helpdata/EN/b4/982c4142aef623e10000000a155106/frameset.htm
ii.     http://help.sap.com/SCENARIOS_BUS2008/helpdata/EN/72/164a4135fff66fe10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
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d.     https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/CK/Implementation%20Guide%20Merchandise%20and%20Assortment%20Planning%20Integration
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a.     http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60/helpdata/en/7f/2d6241bb688047e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
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Their LensCrafters brand has over 800 stores. We are recommending to Lux that they cluster their stores so they will plan 10 or so store clusters rather than plan the assortments for 800 stores individually. They have done studies that show on styles with few SKU's store clustering works very well. The problem is with styles with 100's on SKU's. With those, their studies show that planning at the store cluster level raises their inventory and lowers their service levels. That is the rub.
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HI,
I have Merchandise Category Levels.
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Dear friend,
Merchandise Planning
The first element in the merchandise plan is the Strategic Plan. This is normally high level, with perhaps a five year timescale. It is used to set the critical success factors for merchandising in terms of sales, margins & stocks. Next we would create a Channel Sales Budget. This would allow us to take into account the effect of new channels, new stores, closures and refits. Once complete we would create a Category Level Margin Plan. Here we are creating a weekly version of the strategic plan at category level for sales, margins and markdowns.
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At a more sophisticated level this provides us with the hard currency that can make efficient consumer response systems function effectively. The advent of e-commerce is going to increase the value and importance of line level forecasts shared with our suppliers.
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Space Planning
Space planning systems can be split into two types - numeric and visual. Numeric planning systems simply allow users to take account of space available and to calculate ratios like return on space. Visual systems allow users to create 3 dimensional walk-through models of the stores and to preview the look of a store once ranging decisions have been made.
Conclusion
A system that included all of the above would have taken a strategic vision and translated it into a tactical plan taking into account the constraints imposed by available space and investment capital. This is how planning should be done!
thanks and regards
rewards expected.
vivek

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