Automatic listing of new articles to assortments

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are getting articles from legacy system as a flat file and SAP custom program creates IDOC and then article and list it to assortment. But this way performance is very poor as it is sequential read process.

We want to break it down into - create article idoc and process those with parallel processing (this way we get MARC records). But then question remains how can we list these to assortment?

Is there a tcode/ program that can list new articles to assortments in background or any other standard way that we can schedule as periodic background job?

Regards,

Pat.

[paul_gendreau]

-- assume that you have a Reference DC and Reference Store assigned in the system.

-- assume that you have Reference Article(s) created and assigned to each Merchandise Category

-- assume that you have General Assortments created and Sites are assigned.

In this scenario, an inbound ARTMAS IDoc can create the Article Master.   Be certain to include MARC segments at least for your Reference DC and Reference Store.

After the ARTMAS IDocs are processed, as a nightly job or on demand, you can execute WSM3 to create MARC (MARD, MBEW, and more) records and Listing Conditions.

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Paul Gendreau Jr

SAP Retail

[Former Member]

Hi Paul,

All three assumptions are correct in our case.

We want this to be an on going process w/o any manual intervention.  WSM3 requires article as mandatory field, meaning someone has to manually populate it and then schedule or run.

In our case, we continuously get article data from legacy system (everyday around 10K articles).

Is there a way to list based on MC (execute listing for a MC and system will pick all unlisted articles assigned to that MC) or something like that?

Regards,

Pat.

[paul_gendreau]

Hi Pat:

WSM3 requires an entry entry for Article number, but this entry doesn't require a human 🙂

It is quite common (everybody does it?) for WSM3, or one of its cousin transactions (e.g. WSM4L) to be executed nightly as a batch job. 

Depending on the expected number range, the entry for Article Number is specified as a range of numbers.  Or the number range might be specified with a wild card (e.g lower limit of 123 and upper limit of 123*).

Do not check the box for New Listing and then the system only generates data for articles that must be listed.

- Paul

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Paul Gendreau, Jr

SAP Retail

[former_member232581]

Hi Pat

You can use WSM8 for listing based on Mercfhandise category. I believe it works exactly same as WSM3 except for it use merchandise category instead of article number.

Thanks

Vibhor.

[ronald_king3]

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