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SAP Retail is a completely integrated retailing system. It maps the complete set of business
processes required for competitive assortment strategies, different retail formats, and ECR-
driven logistics and distribution. It provides all the functions necessary for modeling business
processes in a retail company.
With SAP Retail, SAP has endeavored to model the full "Value Chain," all the links in the
logistics pipeline from consumer to vendor. Retailers can thus optimize the whole array of
business processes and control checks in managing the flow of merchandise and information
among vendors, retailers and consumers.
The business process area "Retailing" comprises the procurement, storage, distribution, and
sale of merchandise. SAP Retail supports both wholesale and retail scenarios.
The Retail Information System (RIS) enables goods movements to be planned, monitored and
tracked throughout the whole supply chain.
Assortment Management
Sales Price Calculation
Promotion Management
Allocation
Goods Receipt
Warehouse Management
Billing
Store Supply
The retailing processes enable you to control and coordinate the whole value chain, and thus
react swiftly to changes in consumer behavior.
New trends, such as electronic commerce or ECR, flow continually into ongoing development
cycles. SAP Retail also allows for changes in legal structures or business practices
franchising, for example. This ensures that retailers not only have a future-proof investment but
are able to adapt swiftly to a changing market. The growth of your company is not hampered by
system constraints, and you can incorporate changes in the real world smoothly and efficiently
into the system.
Your SAP Retail system uses either standard terms or Retail terms
(for more information, see Retail Terminology). However, for the sake
of clarity this part of the documentation uses the term material for
master data records that were created with maintenance
transactions in the SAP R/3 system (manufacturing system),
and article for master data records that were created using
maintenance transactions from SAP Retail.
Prerequisites
You should only configure SAP R/3 as SAP Retail if you have a valid SAP
Retail license.
Retail Terminology
SAP R/3 is developed and delivered using standard SAP terminology. In the
retail industry, however, some terms are used in some languages that differ
from the standard terms used in the standard SAP system. SAP therefore
offers customers working in these languages a tool for replacing the standard
terms used in R/3, with the terms specific to the retail industry throughout the
entire user interface. This tool is used for what is referred to as Short Text
Replacement.
The SAP Retail documentation is based on the assumption that you have
replaced the short texts in your SAP systems. When you follow links from the
Retail documentation to other parts of the SAP documentation, note that
standard SAP terminology is used and not the terms specific to the retail
industry.
The following terms differ depending on where you are in the documentation:
SAP Retail Other parts of the documentation
Article Material
Site Plant
The organizational structure of the company in the example graphic would be modeled in
SAP Retail as follows:
Central purchasing
The highest element in the whole corporate group hierarchy is the client. All the
organizational units in a client are subject to the same control mechanisms. Data valid
across the whole corporate group is stored at client level. In the example, the central
purchasing department of the company is located in the SAP Retail structure at client
level.
Local purchasing
Distribution chains
Distribution chains consist of distribution centers (DC) and stores. The generic term for
DCs and stores in SAP Retail is "site."
Sites can also be seen as a combination of one or more locations in close proximity to
each other where stocks of merchandise can be found (examples are storage locations
and storage sections). Stores can also be subdivided into departments, which in turn can
be understood as cost centers. Each department can be assigned a receiving point.
Customer
The value chain concludes with the customer or consumer. If the customer is recorded in
the system (and is therefore an identifiable customer), natural persons can be defined in
the customer master as the contact persons at that customer.
Article Master
- Article Category
- Single Articles
- Sales Set
- General Articles
- Pre-pack Articles
- Display Articles
- Merchandise group Articles
- Reference Articles
- Value only Articles
Assortment Planning
- Site Assortments
- General Assortments
- Assortments Listing
- Assortment Listing Procedure
- Listing Conditions
Transaction Code * *Transaction Text