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Location Setup is part of the MFP Maintenance Activity. In Location Setup, the administrator maintains the general-purpose attributes of a location such as space, status, or Wholesale/Franchise indicators. Location Setup is also where Like Location details are defined.
The steps within the Location Setup Task:
In the Location Info step, you set a few simple attributes of the store.
The Location Info step includes two views:
In this view, the administrator sets information related to stores, such as description and status of location, and indicates if the location is a wholesaler or franchisee.
Table 5-1 Location Info View Measures
| Measure | Description |
|---|---|
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Location Description |
Often used to describe the attributes employed in associating like stores (why are these locations alike). Provide a short description of the location, for example, Southern High-Income Hot Dry. |
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W/F Location |
Set the flag to true for all locations that are in a W/F channel. |
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Location Status |
Range: Active, Closed, Refurbish. |
Like Locations are set up by the system administrator. Like Location is set for new locations that do not have a sales history. The Like Location is used to seed Targets or a Plan.
The Like Location step includes one view: Like Location.
In this view, set up like location information for new locations to use historical sales for Ly in Location Plan workbooks. Setting an end date for the like location defines the date after which the application will stop using historical sales of the like location and start using historical sales for the same location in Ly.
Table 5-3 Like Location View Measures
| Measure | Description |
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Like Location |
Identifies the Like Store for the new location. Using the location hierarchy, determine a similar store based on location along with the attributes indicated in alternates (for example, income, climate, and so on.) |
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Like Location End Date |
Date after which Like Location information will be ignored in favor of using the location's own historical sales data for Ly. |
In the Channel Type step, you simply map the channels to pre-defined types such as Direct (to customer), Wholesale/Franchise, Brick and Mortar, and so on. The Channel Type step includes one view.
The warehouse mapping step is necessary when the warehouse is not defined as part of the location hierarchy. When the warehouse is disjoint from the location hierarchy, the mapping must be defined in order for MFP to correctly report warehouse on-order and inventory for the Channel.
Note that warehouse is always a virtual warehouse when integrating with Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service.
In this view, select the channel that the warehouse fulfills. Filter the locations to the warehouse by using the location type alternate hierarchy.
After setting a mapping, the system administrator must run a batch process (Transform RMS Warehouse Data) to copy inventory and on order from the warehouse to the assigned channel. This can be done ad hoc for a new setting and is part of the standard weekly batch cadence.
