Process Merchandising Decisions

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This screen is the first step in a series of routines you can use to apply pricing and other merchandising information to selected products.

The Process Merchandising Decisions screen is identical to the pre-screen on the Report Merchandising Activity routine (except that the Sales and Include As-Is Quantity fields are inactive because they do not apply to Process Merchandising Decision).  We suggest you run the Report Merchandising Activity routine to identify the products you want to update, then run the series of routines associated with the Process Merchandising Decisions routine to apply the updates to the selected products.  

 The output of this routine may be affected by Regional Processing restrictions.

The locations available to you may be affected by inquiry restrictions specified on the Location Restrictions tab of the Create a User routine.

VendorSpecify the code of the vendor for which you want to create a product list. If you leave this field blank, the system selects all vendors for the list. If you click on the Search button, you access the Vendor Cross Reference window, which you can use to make a selection. If you click on the Action button An outlet to additional routines and functions. Identified by a lightening bolt image, Action buttons appear next to fields and at the bottom of a screen., you access the Multiple Vendor Select window, which you can use to select one or more vendors.

GroupEnter the code of the product group for which you want to create a product list. If you leave this field blank, the system selects all product groups for the list. If you click on the Search button, you access the Product Group Lookup window, which you can use to make a selection. If you click on the Action button, you access the Multiple Product Group Select window, which you can use to select one or more groups.

Category

CollectionEnter the code of the product collection for which you want to  create a product list. If you leave this field blank, the system selects all product collections for the list. If you click on the Search button, you access the Product Collection Lookup window, which you can use to make a selection. If you click on the Action button, you access the Multiple Product Collection Select window, which you can use to select one or more collections.

RegionEnter the code of the region to which you want to restrict this list. If you leave this field blank, the system selects all regions for the list. If you click on the Arrow button, a list of regions appears from which you can choose. If you click on the Action button, you access the Multiple Region Selection Window, which you can use to select one or more regions.  Note that if Regional Processing is active, you can select only the regions to which you have access.

Buying Group

Inventory

Special Order

Sales

If you click the Arrow button at each sort field, you can select the primary, secondary, and tertiary sort criteria. You can select Buying Group, Vendor, Category, Group, or Collection.Sort By Primary, Secondary, TertiaryIf you click the Arrow button at each sort field, you can select the primary, secondary, and tertiary sort criteria. You can select Buying Group, Vendor, Category, Group, or Collection.

Purchase Status

Include As-Is Quantity  This field does not apply to the Process Merchandising Decisions process, and is thus inactive in this routine. However, this field is active in the Report Merchandising Activity routine, on which this screen is based.

Output toThe output destination of the report displays.  To change the output destination, click on the Actions button and select Output Settings.

Export PathIf you select either the Personal Report Viewer ( PRV (Personal Report Viewer) A STORIS printer output option that allows you to customize report results, for example to rearrange data columns.), Excel Export, or ASCII Export, this field displays the pre-set computer drive and folder location to which the system exports the report data. You cannot edit the export path using this process.

Once you select your run-time options, choose Run to access the Select Products for Merchandising Decisions Screen.