Creating User-Defined Product Ranks

Product Ranking is used to compare the activity of a product to all other products within the same price line, a group of price lines, or all price lines. By default, the system sets product ranks and uses the default methods: demand, hits, gross sales, etc. However, you can map conversions to each rank and create user-defined labels for the product ranks based on the breakpoints you have defined.

For example, you have Rank #2 set up to read the Demand. You have the breakpoints set to list all items in the top 20% as A items. However, you want the system to list those items as a 1 (one) on reports instead of an A.

Note: You can map any alphabetical character or single-digit number to your rank levels.

Use user-defined product ranks in conjunction with user-defined product breakpoints to tailor your ranking and best suit your warehouse set up.

To create a user-defined product rank:

From the Purchase > Forecasting menu, select Product Ranking.
In the Ranking ID field, enter the rank to which you want to add user-defined ranks and press Enter.
In the Ranking Method area, right-click on the method you want to update and select Edit User-Defined Mapping.
Use the Item Rank and UD Rank columns to map the rank and character.
Save your changes and exit the window.

The system automatically displays an indicator when a user-defined rank exists:. Click here to see how this indicator looks on the window.

Note: After making changes you must reschedule the Product Ranking Program for the system to apply the changes.