From Planning

Oracle Retail Allocation accesses plan data that originates in planning applications (including Oracle Retail's planning applications). The Oracle Retail Planning products are applications that provide functionality for developing, reconciling, and approving plans. When interfacing with Oracle Retail planning applications, Oracle Retail Allocation accesses department, class, subclass, parent/diff, or SKU plan data at the store-week level. Oracle Retail Allocation can be used as a tool to verify the final product-store plans and to initiate a PO to execute the plan. In other words, Oracle Retail Allocation can take the retailer's plan and execute it. Both the Oracle Retail and the legacy planning applications populate a planning table, ALC_PLAN, which resides within Oracle Retail Allocation.

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Merchandising is the system of record for Oracle Retail Allocation. Hence Allocation inherits the merchandise hierarchy from Merchandising. However, Merchandising and Assortment Planning (AP) can have different merchandise hierarchies. If you wish to export information from AP to Allocation, you must ensure that the AP merchandise hierarchy is compatible with that of Merchandising/Allocation.