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Sku Detail Screen
Sku Detail Screen
Left-Clicking any Sku Line in the Sku Listing section of the Margin Master will display the Sku Detail screen for that Sku.
The left third of the Sku Detail screen shows a monthly breakdown of the unit sales history and below that, the Vendor Number, and Name.
The center third displays the Ace Price levels, Merchandise Class, Department, Ace Velocity Code, Ace Pricing Strategy, and if the item is Ace Private Label. Also, each Discovery set is listed if available.
The right third, shows some basic store information. The Green field is the Future Store Price. You can directly edit this value.
Lock/Unlock
Users of prior versions of Margin Master will immediately notice the disappearance of the Lock/Unlock Button on the Sku Detail Screen. In it's place is a series of new buttons. First - it is important to explain why Lock/Unlock has gone away. Basically - Old Locks were just a way to keep Margin Master from changing the price of certain Skus. This no longer applies with the addition of Pricing Strategy because the first rule of Pricing Strategy is to create rules that affect EVERY Sku! So Old Locks had to go! Now - we use a lock symbol to represent a Sku Level Exception, but the Sku is anything but locked. Once a Sku is added to the Pricing Strategy - the appropriate lock symbol will be displayed by the item based on the type of the exception. Now - we no longer ignore Sku's - but we tell Margin Master what we want to do with EVERY Sku. Yes it is still an option to tell Margin Master that the Sku should always have a Future Price of $0.00 - effectively causing the same effect as an old locks. The difference being - we have defined a rule specific to the Sku that tells Margin Master exactly what should be done.
(FYI - Setting the Future Price to $0.00 is not an effective Strategy - a better solution almost always exists.)
The Sku Detail Screen now shows much more detail about the Sku's involvement in both Pricing Strategy and Custom Groups. In a quick glance - we can tell much about what is happening. The color around both the Sku Level Strategy and the Custom Groups indicate if there is an existing Strategy/Group for the displayed Sku. If the Box is green, there is a Strategy/Group for the Sku in the currently selected store. If the Box is red, there is a Strategy/Group for the Sku, but not in the currently selected store.
After applying our Pricing Strategy - we could review the steps that affected this Sku by clicking the Show Strategy History button.
For the example shown here - we can tell there is a Sku Level Pricing Strategy for this Sku - but not in this store (red box). We could easily add a new Sku Level Strategy for this Sku in this store by clicking Add. Clicking Review will display the details of any existing Sku Level Strategy. If a Sku Level Strategy Existed - we could delete it by clicking the Delete Button.
Also indicated above is that this Sku belongs to at least one Custom Group. Custom Groups can be edited by clicking Edit. This Sku can also be removed from all groups by clicking Delete. For a complete listing of what groups the Sku is in - click Review.
Annual Impact
To make way for all the new stuff - the annual impact for the Sku is not displayed. Users wishing to display this field can turn it back on by clicking Tools/Show Annual Impact.
Quick Set Future Price
By Clicking on any of the Ace Price Levels, you can quickly set the Future Store Price to that value. In the above example, clicking on the Level 2 price of $4.99 will set the Future Store Price to $4.99. When finished viewing/changing the Sku, click Done to return to the Margin Master screen.
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| Article Details | Created:6/5/2009 10:44:08 AM
Modified:6/5/2009 11:11:06 AM
Author:smayhew
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