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Associating Account Products with Merchandising Locations

By associating an account's authorized product with merchandising locations, you can assign a specific physical location for that product, such as one or more display locations within a retail outlet, or within a bin in a warehouse. A product may have multiple merchandising locations.

To associate products with account merchandising locations

1. Navigate to the Accounts screen > Accounts List view.
2. Drill down on the Name field hyperlink for a selected account, and click the Merchandising Location view tab.
3. In the Merchandising Locations list, create a new record, and complete the necessary fields.

   Some fields are described in the following table.

   Field	Comments
   Asset Name	A product the customer owns, typically acquired through contract or purchase. For consumer goods companies, this is typically a type of merchandising or display unit.
   Asset Number	Automatically populated upon selection of asset in Asset field.
   Location Order	Specifies the order in which the products or merchandising locations appear, to facilitate retail audits. An example is side-by-side. The person performing the retail audit then knows the exact location of each individual product.
   Type	The type of merchandising location. Values include Bin, Aisle, Shelf, Trunk, Virtual, and Warehouse. LOV Type: FS_INVLOCTYPE_TYPE

4. From the Merchandising Locations list, choose the appropriate merchandising location record.
5. In the Product list, click New.
6. In the Account Product dialog box, select the products to add to the merchandising location and click OK.
7. Repeat Step 4 through Step 6 until you have added all the products you want to add to the merchandising location.