divide the revenue of the stores to three people

[mona4u]

I want to assign on people to work on the stores based on the stores revenue. The revenue will be equaly or almost equally distributed between 3 managers. 

Partner Name	Area Revenue
Store 1	$                                         268,144.38
Store 2	$                                         257,660.73
Store 3	$                                         250,675.20
Store 4	$                                         174,474.83
Store 5	$                                         168,140.60
Store 6	$                                         145,631.76
Store 7	$                                         138,761.64
Store 8	$                                         135,393.91
Store 9	$                                         114,173.34
Store 10	$                                         109,770.67
Store 11	$                                         106,283.21
Store 12	$                                           40,844.72
Store 13	$                                           37,127.90
Store 14	$                                           22,112.36
Store 15	$                                           16,358.29
Store 16	$                                             7,984.21
sum	$                                     1,993,537.75
sum/3	$                                         664,512.58

[PaigeMiller]

I'm not sure what the question is, and I'm not sure which part you are having trouble with in SAS?

[PGStats · Accepted solution]

If I understand, you want to assign each store to one of three manager in such a way that they manage about the same revenue. A decent heuristic to do this is to assign each store to the manager with the least revenue, in decreasing order of revenue. For example:

data have;
input store $ revenue;
datalines;
Store1     268144.38
Store2     257660.73
Store3     250675.20
Store4     174474.83
Store5     168140.60
Store6     145631.76
Store7     138761.64
Store8     135393.91
Store9     114173.34
Store10        109770.67
Store11        106283.21
Store12          40844.72
Store13          37127.90
Store14          22112.36
Store15          16358.29
Store16            7984.21
;

proc sort data=have; by descending revenue; run;

data want;
array m manager1-manager3 (3*0);
set have;
manager = whichn(min(of m{*}), of m{*});
m{manager} = m{manager} + revenue;
*keep store manager;
run;

proc print data=want noobs; run;