SAP for Retail

Development Projects
Part 2 of 3
Duration of the eBook: 9 minutes
 Agenda

SAP Forecasting and Replenishment

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 Solution Components
SCM Platform
SAP Forecasting and Replenishment

Replenishment Workbench

Basis Layer Demand Influencing

Factors Mgmt

Micro Forecasting Master

Data
External Interfaces
Auto Replenishment
Time
Replenishment_ series
Order Proposal
Optimization
Management

Analytics / Reports

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 The Solution: Store Replenishment
Vendor
Retailer Stores

DC

Supplier

CentralDC

„ Unique product/location micro forecasts

„ Automated, exception based Management
„Unified forecast (forecast including demand influencing factor
e.g. promotions, events)
„Central approach: Store replenishment runs in a central
environment but results e.g. exceptions, order proposals can be
transferred into stores
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 The Solution: DC Replenishment

Vendor

DC

Supplier

Central DC Stores

„DC forecasting not only based on goods issue but also sales
forecasts from stores

„ Management of many complex forecasting models

„ High Automation with minimal user intervention

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 From Sales to Demand
SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
Master Open Transfer Sales Data,
Sales Stock DIF's Stock, DIF's, Open
data Orders
Orders, Master Data

Automatic Replenishment
Quantity Calculation Manual Replenishment

Net
Requirem.

R/3 Retail / ERP

Replenishment Quantity
Optimization
Order Pro-
Exceptions posals

Exception Handling OP f. man- Order Proposal

/ Manual Release ual proc. Release Management

Autom. Transfer Released

Released Order Proposals Orders
OP's into Orders

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 Agenda

SAP Enterprise Portal Business

Package Retail

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 Store Management with Enterprise Portals

BW Internet SAP R/3

Workflow
Reporting Retail

SAP Retail POS SAP R/3 Mobile

Store Third Party HR Data
Capture

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 System Landscape

Portal Document
Server Repository

Internet/
Intranet

SAP R/3 Retail BW

Vendor
Promotions
Data Vendor Data
Assortment & Vendor
Vendor Data
Procurement Performance Analysis
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 SAP Enterprise Portal - Business Packages

A SAP Business Package is a role-based and pre-defined portal

content that provides applications, information and services to
the user and immediately enables them to collaborate and act
more efficiently.

Main elements:
„ Role-based enterprise portal
„ Collection of reports and queries
„ Pre-defined integration of applications
„ Taxonomy of content and documents
„ Integration of internet content

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 Retail portal content: BP for Retail – Retail Buyers

Business benefit:
Provides single interface for data and information retrieved from several systems
to support the buying process in a Retail company. The application focus of the
first version is on the daily/yearly negotiation with suppliers. Future development
phases plan to cover promotion planning, assortment control and additional
procurement processes. Also suppliers should be allowed to access their data
from outside.

Users can:
„ Define myEntities (Vendor, Sites)
„ Manage daily vendor contacts
„ Monitor Out-of-Stock situations & back orders

Roles:
„ Retail Buyer
„ Stock Planner

Content systems:
„ SAP R/3 & Business Information Warehouse

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 Retail portal content: BP for Retail – Store
Manager

Business benefit:
Provides single interface for data from several systems to support retail
processes, personnel management, and store controlling

Users can:
„ Support in-store promotions
„ Manage staff and staff schedules
„ Support pricing tasks
„ Support purchase order process
„ Support goods receipt and controlling processes

Roles:
„ Store Manager

Content systems:
„ SAP R/3 Retail & Business Information Warehouse

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