Assortment and listing
Record what the retailer intends to sell where and when, so that ordering, pricing, online display and replenishment follow the same decision.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
2 bundles · 2 layers · 4 findings · 8 questions
Assortment decision What is decided to be offered.
Versions
Assortment versions and local exceptions.
Assortment version
Items, locations, period and approval.
- Which items are in this assortment version, for which locations and which period?
- Who approved this assortment version, and when?
Local exceptions
Local additions and removals.
- Which local additions or removals apply to this selling location, and which central version do they modify?
Listing Whether an item is offered at a location and how.
Listing status and placement
Status, range role, placement and follow-up.
Listing status
Listed, suspended or delisted, with range role.
- Is this item listed, suspended or delisted at this selling location or channel, and since when?
- What range role, such as core, seasonal or test, does this item have in this assortment?
Placement and follow-up
Shelf placement, affected orders and supplier.
- Which planogram or display position is assigned to this item at this selling location?
- Which open orders and returns are affected by the delisting of this item?
- Which supplier and item identifier does this listing use?
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Enterprise profiles
- Category
- Enterprise subject
- Entry kind
- subject
- Domain
- EnterpriseRTL
- Industry
- Retail and e-commerce
- Tags
- EM-RTL-02W-INDsubjectAssortmentAssortmentVersionListingRangeRolePlanogram
What it is Filled
Which items are offered at which selling locations and channels, for which period, with the listing status, range role and shelf or display placement. Item definitions and stock belong to neighboring contours.
Why it exists Filled
Record what the retailer intends to sell where and when, so that ordering, pricing, online display and replenishment follow the same decision.
Distinguishing features Filled
- A listing is a decision to offer, separate from stock availability.
- Assortments are versioned with validity periods.
- Local exceptions reference the central version.
- Delisting does not remove return rights.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Approve or change an assortment.
- Delist items without a buyer decision.
- Show unlisted items to customers as available.
Only with a human decision
- Assortment versions are approved by category managers or buyers.
- Delisting decisions with an impact on suppliers need commercial approval.
May
- Compare assortments across locations and versions.
- Flag listed items without a price or without a supplier.
- Propose delisting candidates from sales data for buyer review.
Moral aspects Filled
- Assortment decisions affect access to goods in some areas.
- Abrupt delisting can harm supplier relationships.
Who is affected
- Customers
- Suppliers
- Store staff
Owners Filled
Steward
The head of merchandising who answers for what is offered in each channel.
Master systems
- ERP
- Merchandising system
- Product information management system
Links to other meta-models Filled
neighbor
- EM-OPS-04
- EM-PRD-01
- EM-RTL-01
- EM-RTL-03
- EM-OPS-05
- EM-OPS-02
references
- WM-OBJ-002 - conceptual-candidate
- WM-DAT-008 - conceptual-candidate
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- A listing is identified by item, selling location or channel and validity start.
- Items are commonly identified by GS1 Global Trade Item Numbers.
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Enterprise record contour: physical properties belong to referenced world models.
Recognition required Filled
- Records show an item, a location or channel, a period, a status and a range role.
- A listing must be distinguished from an item master record, a price and a stock position.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- The contour supports replenishment, online catalog display and space planning.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Listing errors lead to empty shelves or unwanted stock.
- Showing unlisted items online creates orders that cannot be fulfilled.
Standards and interfaces optional Filled
- GS1 publishes the Global Trade Item Number and the Global Data Synchronisation Network for item data.
- Schema.org defines the Offer and ItemList types for publishing offers online.
Context of use required Filled
- The contour is used by store-based, online and omnichannel retailers.
- Food retail adds rules for regional and seasonal ranges.
Sources Filled
- GS1 Global Data Synchronisation Network: item data between trading partners
- schema.org: Offer and ItemList
- Category management and planogram practice
- Schema.org Offer type - Checked live (HTTP 200) on 2026-10-21.
- Schema.org ItemList type - Checked live (HTTP 200) on 2026-10-21.
Open questions
- How is a listing distinguished from stock availability?
- How are local exceptions to a central assortment recorded?
- What happens to open orders and returns when an item is delisted?
- Settle the boundary and the reuse, extend or new decision against the current specifications.
- Confirm the semantic crosswalk, rights and source mastership.
- Choose immutable references and run fixture checks before claiming publication readiness.
Machine files
Provenance
enterprise research programme · published-partial
Built from: enterprise/models/em-rtl-02/brief.json, ver-cy/world-models/card-supplements/em-rtl-02.json