Significance of External Merchandise category in IS Retail

[Former Member]

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

srini

[Former Member]

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

[Former Member]

Hello,

External Merch Category is in basic view (MARA-EXTWG) of Article Master and is hidden by default. If you need to group articles for an external system requirements such as GDSN, you may use this field.

Thanks,

Venu

[Former Member]

hi all,

thnks for the answer..what does GDSN mean....is it that i want to interface some extrnal application ...could u explain a bit more abt this....

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

If any external application such as Microstrategy BI makes use of different categorization of articles other than standard Merch category in SAP, this External Merch Category field could be used in SAP.

GDSN - Global Data Synchronization Network.

Thanks,

Venu