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SAS Merchandise Planning 6.1 Administration

Duration: 8.0 days
CEUs: 4.8
(This course is not currently scheduled.)

This outline is provisional and subject to change.

This course addresses administrative job activities for SAS Merchandise Planning 6.1. This course focuses on the following: setting up SAS Merchandise Planning, clustering, using the SAS Template Manager module, getting started with plan management, working with PA views and planning worksheets, and using advanced planning features.

Who should attend

SAS administrators, super users, and other individuals participating in an implementation of the SAS Merchandise Planning solution

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Prerequisites
Before attending this course, you should have You should also have basic knowledge of retail merchandising and planning concepts. Direct involvement in a SAS Merchandise Planning Solution Definition Workshop or SAS Merchandise Planning implementation can be considered in place of the above prerequisites.
Course Contents
Setting Up SAS Merchandise Planning 6.1
  • application properties
  • user and group setup and security
  • global and user preferences
  • base highlight, sort, and filter sets
  • business views
  • dimension sets
  • assignments
  • using the System Monitor
  • security logs
SAS Merchandise Planning: Template Manager Workshop
  • gathering business requirements
  • working with KPI sets
  • working with tasks
  • working with templates
  • managing objects
Plan Management for SAS Merchandise Planning 6.1
  • introduction to plan management
  • plan groups
  • plans
  • plan versions
  • referencing data with a time shift
  • plan worksheets
  • using dimension sets
PA Views and Planning Worksheets in SAS Merchandise Planning
  • working with PA views
  • working with planning worksheets
Using Advanced Planning Features in SAS Merchandise Planning 6.1
  • balancing
  • new SKU resolution
  • managing trends
  • managing batch processing
  • managing plan reclassification
Software
This course addresses Merchandise Intelligence.
Course Materials
Students receive a hardcopy of the course notes and, in some courses, can choose to take home a copy of the course data.
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