Article group
An article group is a combination of several articles from the assortment of a company in the trade according to certain properties of the article. These properties basically correspond to those that are used in the compilation of product groups , but are usually much more detailed. A typical hypermarket has z. B. over less than 20 main product groups, but over several hundred article or sub-product groups.
Division into 3 article groups in an industrial company
1. Goal planning
Article / product with very high planning security
- large batch sizes
- long best before date (e.g. for food)
- Packing material lead up to 2 months
- Customer deliveries must be 100% secured
- In this way, fluctuations in personnel can be balanced out
2. Synchronous articles
- new numbers weekly
- Change of rigid planning every 4 weeks
- Creation of the rolling plan
- Stock max. 1 month notice
3. order-related items
only when a customer order is received
- no stock
- Delivery times 1–2 months