Merchandise Category: Value-Only Article Categories

Hello,
Could someone explain to me what is meant by Merchandise Category: Value-Only Article Categories with a real time example ?

Yo, do me a favor - can you explain your question more in detail.
Do you ask in general what a Merch Cat is and/or what you can do with it - sense or nonsense within Trade.
Markus
Anyway: Maybe this section out of the Retail Standard documentation help:
http://help.sap.com/ERP2005_EHP_03/helpdata/EN/12/084a37470311d1894a0000e8323352/content.htm
If you need different information - let me know - otherwise be so kind and mark this question as answered.
Also: If you are looking for answers about how to use - or how sell at POS articles on value only article categories - you will find that within the documentation when you open up the library structure (red arrows) - Here you find the difference between Merch Cat articles sales and Merch Cat Hierarchy articles. Usual Merch Cat article sales is Donuts at a Grocer. It does not matter if plain, chocolate or whatever! At POS they press one button to record the sales of Donuts. Usually the remaining donuts will be counted at the end of business day to evaluate further production.
You of course can use all possible varieties within SAP: keep record at article level of a merch cat, record at merch cat level (donuts, even so there are differences) and merch cat hierarchy level (if it makes sense for you).
Hasta la vista
Markus
Edited by: Markus Semar on Jun 23, 2009 8:30 PM

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