Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has a 7-tier product hierarchy that they use to track products...

The consultant must identify the hierarchy level that represents the stock keeping unit (SKU). In the Consumer Goods Retail Execution data model, individual products are represented through Product2 records, and Salesforce describes each Product2 record as a SKU or sellable unit. Consequently, the ERP hierarchy level that contains SKU-level information provides the appropriate product granularity for product-specific retail execution processes.

Share-of-shelf measurement requires Salesforce to identify precisely which products occupy shelf space so that actual shelf presence can be evaluated against configured targets. Retail Store KPIs can associate Assessment Indicator Definitions such as Share of Shelf with products, product categories, planograms, store groups, and in-store location categories. The underlying product master therefore needs a level that reliably represents the individual sellable products being measured.

Salesforce product master data can contain multiple hierarchy levels such as categories, subcategories, brands, and SKUs. The numerical position of a tier is not itself significant; what matters is the business meaning of that tier. For this requirement, the tier representing SKUs provides the required product-level data for shelf measurement and Retail Execution processing.

Study Guide Topics:Data Setup - > Product2 - > Product Hierarchy - > SKU - > Share-of-Shelf KPI

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