Author: Chris Allen is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Manager at Allitix Part of Accenture.
Hello, and thank you for checking out my ‘How I Built It’ video tutorial on replacing list items!
The video will walk you through the process of replacing list items. The key feature leveraged here is importing a new code into a placeholder list item to override its original code to match the list item the placeholder was used to represent for. I'll walk through all the necessary steps to successfully complete this task.
This is an important process I implement for projects dependent on SKU planning. A planner may want to create a new SKU in their SKU list, which does not currently exist and will not be established in upstream source system in near future. The SKU's actual code and display name is unknown until it's created in the source system. The new SKU list item acts as a placeholder until the new SKU is available in source system and imported into Anaplan. When the SKU becomes available, the placeholder SKU will need to transfer its data to it or in this case, we have the placeholder SKU transform into the SKU it was a placeholder for by replacing its code.
Check it out and let me know if you have any questions!
