Unit: Introduction

Contents:
! Main Business Scenario
! Overview of SAP Retail Store Architecture
! Overview of Business Processes

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 Introduction: Objectives

At the conclusion of this unit, you will be able to:

! Describe the Retail Store architecture
! List the business processes that SAP Retail
Store has available

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 Course Overview

Unit 1 Introduction

Unit 2 Internet Transaction Server

Unit 3 Purchasing Processes

Unit 4 Inventory Management Processes

Unit 5 Sales Processes

Unit 6 Recording Time

Unit 7 Information

Unit 8 Accessing Master Data

Unit 9 Conclusion

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 Main Business Scenario

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SmartRetailer,
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" You are a member of your company’s store communication integration team.
" You must create the appropriate configuration to use SAP Retail Store in your stores.
" Other project teams already have configured the core business processes on SAP Retail. You have
been requested to determine the optimum configuration to communicate with the stores.
$ Configuration assumptions:
" Your specialty stores provide men’s clothing along with sporting goods and electronics through
stores in three western US states.
" Central replenishment will be run for all stores and it is company policy to run promotions for
selected articles.

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 SAP Retail Store Case Study

Retail Store

ITS Server Purchasing activities

Inventory management
Sales
IDES
IDESSmart
SmartRetailer
RetailerInc.
Inc. Master data maintenance
Evaluating reports

POS Server
Converter
Nightly:
Nightly: Sales Receipts
Article + Price Loss Prevention
EAN
Vendors

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" Unit Case Study:

$ Smart Specialty is installing SAP Retail. The company has many small stores. Their stores have
fairly simple POS systems which limits how much data they exchange with headquarters. Smart
Specialty will make use of personal computers and SAP Retail Store to handle their store
information that has been handled manually up to now.
$ Smart Specialty is using WP_PLU and WP_EAN as outbound message types to supply the store
with data to drive their cash registers. They are recording sales and register activity and reporting
that using inbound POS messages.
$ The stores carry some articles that customers purchase in store but are delivered directly by the
vendor to their homes. Sales clerks will use Retail Store to record these transactions online.
$ The merchandise managers will be ordering merchandise and stock clerks recording those receipts
using Retail Store.
$ The inventory management folks are very interested in the types of information Retail Store will
provide them and are eager to see the reports that are available.

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 Comprehensive Retail Store Functions

Information

Sales

Master
data

Inventory
management

Purchasing

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" Master data

$ Display assortments, product catalogs, stores, and display and maintain customers
" Purchasing
$ Enter store orders including PDC interface
$ Maintain purchase requisitions and generate store orders
" Goods movements
$ Enter goods receipts, stock transfers, and item quantities for physical inventory documents also via
PDC.
$ Maintain physical inventory differences
" Sales
$ Enter/maintain sales orders and display sales order status
" Information
$ Display/maintain promotions and allocation tables
$ Display stocks and standard analyses (SAP standard analyses)
" Time management
$ Cross application time sheets, ESS
" Mail
$ Send/receive mails and attachments (PPT, WORD/EXCEL)
$ Manage private folders
" Authorization check
$ At store and transaction level

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 Introduction: Unit Summary

You are now able to:

! Describe briefly SAP Retail Store architecture
! Describe the processes available with SAP
Retail Store

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