I am thinking of using a two-step listing procedure as follows:
1) Create one general assortment and assign all the stores to it. Use assortment grade at merch cat level (site master) to control listing by what my client deems store category. This is step one in my listing procedure.
2) Use classification data to further refine the initial listing. There are six characteristics required. These are held against article and site master records. What I am trying to get is SAP to only list where the first step (assortment grade check) is satisfied, but also that the characteristic data between article and site matches.
Note that classification data will only used by exception to further refine the listing records.
Can anyone tell me if this is possible? What will be in WLK1? The issue I can see is that classification listing will add records with the site as the assortment ID. General assortment listing will use the assortment ID as the key. They are both positive listing records if that makes sense?
I'm not wedded to this approach, so if anyone can think of an alternative way of using assortment grades, with a second step to prevent certain articles going to certain sites then I'm all ears - note that exclusion modules will be too cumbersome to maintain due to the volume of data the users would have to maintain.