Listing How does it work?

A. Prerequisites SAP standard VS SAP IS Retail

1. In SAP standard, you need plant view definition to process PO or movement of the article on
the plant (like good receipt, good issue). Plant data on the article master data need to be
maintained.
Technical point of view:

MARC Article / Plant

MARD Article / Plant / Storage location

2. In SAP Retail, plant view is not sufficient. Article listing is needed.

Listing is the operation that links the article to the assortment.

What is an Assortment?

SAP definition: An assortment is a SAP Retail object to which materials are assigned (a process known
as listing).
Actually, an Assortment is a group of articles assigned to a group of sites. But it is not necessary
true.

Why not true? Because, each plant have his own assortment also.

The real assortment definition depends on the client organization. It can be a group of articles
like PASTRY ARTICLE or a group of sites like LUXURIOUS SITE. So we need to come back
to the SAP definition: An assortment is a SAP Retail object to which materials are assigned (a process
known as listing). the true SAP definition, assortment is just an object to link different other
objects.
Technical point of view:

MARC Article / Plant

MARD Article / Plant / Storage location

WLK1 Article / Assortment

WRSZ Site / Assortment

WRS1 Assortment

B. Listing
The listing operation is the creation of a link between an article and an assortment (creation of
WLK1 line).

To create an assortment, use the transaction WSOA1. Trough the transaction you can assign a
site to the assortment. WSOA2 to add a site to the assortment.

To list an article, use the transaction MM42 / Listing view. For mass listing use WSM3.

Assortment as Site group:

Case 1:

Let assume the Retail Company have two kinds of distribution site, small site and big
site.

Let assume there are articles sold only in a big site and that all articles sold in a small site
are available in a big site too.
You need to create two assortments, ALL_SITE and BIG_SITE via the transaction WSOA1. Next
step is to assign all sites to the assortment ALL_SITE via WSOA1 or WSOA2 and to assign big
sites to the assortment BIG_SITE.

To assign an article to all the sites, go on MM42 (listing view) or on WSM3 and choose the
assortment ALL_SITE.

To assign an article only to the big sites, go on MM42 (listing view) or on WSM3 and choose the
assortment BIG_SITE.

Case 2:

Let assume the Retail Company have two distribution brands, Catering brand (XCatering)
and Retail Food brand (XFood).

Let assume there are articles sold only in XCatering sites, articles sold only in XFood
sites and articles sold in both.

You need to create two assortments, CATERING and FOOD via the transaction WSOA1. Next
step is to assign all XCATERING sites to the assortment CATERING via WSOA1 or WSOA2 and
to assign XFOOD sites to the assortment FOOD.

To assign an article sold only in a XCatering site (like Sandwich), go on MM42 (listing view) or on
WSM3 and choose the assortment CATERING.

To assign an article sold only in a XFood site (like chips), go on MM42 (listing view) or on WSM3
and choose the assortment FOOD.

To assign an article sold in both site brand (like soda), go on MM42 (listing view) or on WSM3
and choose the both assortment CATERING and FOOD.

Assortment as Article group:

Case 3:
 Let assume the Retail Company have different sites, all sites sell the same core articles,
some sites sell pastry articles, some site sell wine articles.

You need to create three assortments, CORE, PASTRY and WINE via the transaction WSOA1.

Next step is:

To assign all sites to the assortment CORE via WSOA1 or WSOA2 (as we define, all sites sold
article from the core assortment)

To assign sites with Pastry department to the assortment PASTRY.

To assign sites with Wine department to the assortment WINE.

To assign a core article to all sites, go on MM42 (listing view) or on WSM3 and choose the
assortment CORE.

To assign a pastry article to sites with pastry department, go on MM42 (listing view) or on WSM3
and choose the assortment PASTRY.

To assign a wine article to sites with wine department, go on MM42 (listing view) or on WSM3
and choose the assortment WINE.

Report:
WSLA / WSOA3 Sites in the assortment

WSL10 Listing by material group selection

WSL11 Listing by article selection