Retail hierarchy is used to group data in a hierarchical relationship. This grouping can individually apply to stores, item categories and product groups.
Hierarchies are then used to display information in a hierarchical manner, for instance in sales history.
Stores can be linked with more the one hierarchy. All hierarchies will be displayed in the Sales History store form,
with the main focus on the standard All Stores hierarchy, but if you want the focus to be on some defined hierarchy you can define default store hierarchy in
Retail Setup.
Item categories and product groups are part of what is called Item Hierarchy in Sales history.
Item Hierarchy is divided into two main levels, Item Category Level and Product Group Level.
The Item Category Level has one standard All Item Categories hierarchy. This shows the item hierarchy as category-product-item.
However, if you want to use more levels you can define retail hierarchy as a super level of the item
hierarchy. To do this you set up a hierarchy and then define it as the default item hierarchy in the
retail setup. Item categories are then connected to this default item hierarchy.
The default item hierarchy will replace the All Item Categories hierarchy. This hierarchy shows the item hierarchy as hierarchy-category-product-item.
On the Product Group Level you can have as many hierarchies as you like. That is, each product group can be connected to many hierarchies.
Each hierarchy is then shown as hierarchy-product-item.