Significance of External Merchandise category in IS Retail

Can any one help me in understanding what is ext merch category and what is the significance in IS retail?
srini

Hi Srini,
I have not come across "ext merch category" terminology in IS-Retail and i think there is no such Field .
Can you specifically say on which Tcode you have came across ???
There is one field called "Vendor Art. Grp" in Article Master which is used for maintaining Merchandise Category of your External Vendor.
Regards,
Selvakumar. M

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