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1. MFP Application TeachOut Circuit City Store Support Center MST APP SUPPORT/ CLIENT SERVER APP SUPPORT TEAM Merchandise Financial Planning

2. Plan Activity Types Pre-Season, and In-Season Planning Activity and Plan Types Plan Types / Versions Original Plan (OP) Current Plan (CP) Working Plan (WP) Executive Plan (EP) Director Plan (DP) Planner Plan (PP) Last Year (LY) Last Last Year (LLY)

4. * Reconciliation of plans is performed by the Director role. MDSE Hierarchy Top Down Planning ………………. Planner Buyer Planner Buyer Planner Buyer Planner Buyer Director MM Director MM Executive GMM Middle Out Planning *………. Bottom Up Planning ..……….

5. One to one relationship between MDSE and Product hierarchies Product Hierarchy marries to MDSE hierarchy Each Division has one GMM. Dept Class Dept Class Dept Class Dept Class Group Sub-Cat Group Sub-Cat Division Category Each Group has one MM. Each Department has one Buyer.

6. Prod and Merch Hierarchies Division Group Dept GMM DMM Buyer Merch hierarchy was added by CCS. Prod hierarchy is delivered with the vanilla application.

7. Calendar Hierarchy MFP implements a Retail Calendar, presenting … last-last year, last year, current year and one future year. Data is rolled from the week level into … month, quarter, season and/or year. Data is split by either CCS or CCD, or rolled into Total Company. Location Hierarchy

12. ‘ Commit’ saves to MFP’s ‘database’ on the application server, in a file system. A recent Oracle document says the proprietary ACUMATE database doesn’t exist. So don’t tell any body … but that is what stores and manages the data: A utility that manages files holding multi-dimensional arrays. Spreadsheets on steroids! Not an RDBMS. ‘ Save’ saves to the user’s directory on the server. Commit vs. Save

14. LOADED MEASURES

15. Delivered Batch Utilities

16. High Level Flow

19. Reporting Batch Stream stream 2 Load plan data exported from MFP, and a fresh pull of EDW in-stock data, to UCEDM reporting tables for access by COGNOS.

20. ETL’s – Informatica Workflows

21. Batch Schedule MFP - Sunday (stream 1) BPM Reporting - Sunday, Wed & Fri (sub-stream 1a and stream 2) Nightly – Stop server port and re-start (stream 3)

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