Cost Zone Groups

When using estimated landed cost functionality in Merchandising (see Functional system options above), then all items will need to be associated with a cost zone group. Zone groups and zones are used to manage expenses associated with purchasing product and moving it from a lading port to your locations. Stores and warehouses that incur similar in-country expenses can be grouped into a zone for easier management of the estimated costs.

As part of the initial data seeding, Merchandising will create two zone groups:

• 1000 - Location Zone Group

• 2000 - Geographic Cost Zones

These can be updated to descriptions that better suit your business in the Cost Zones page in Merchandising. For more information on this update, see the Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Data User Guide section Manage Cost Zones. Once you begin creating stores and warehouses, you can then group the appropriate stores and warehouses together in your desired zone groupings.