Offline Processing 

Use

This business process allows you to process in SAP Retail any store order data that has been entered via a distributed retailing system (DRS).

·        Orders from a store can either be entered directly in SAP Retail (online processing) or they can be entered in a distributed retailing system and then passed on to SAP Retail via the POS interface (offline processing). Data is interchanged in intermediate documents (IDocs), which temporarily contain the data from the DRS before it is processed further in SAP Retail.

·        Orders that are controlled as a result of replenishment, perishables planning, additionals, automatic load building, investment buying, and splitting of purchase orders, are transferred to store order processing via the dispatcher.

·        Sales orders from the online store and store orders from SAP Retail store use remote function call (RFC) to access the dispatcher and trigger store order processing from there.

The system automatically processes data in the background and only stops processing if it discovers inconsistencies or plausibility problems in the transmitted data. If this is the case, worklists are created and the work items passed onto the person responsible for processing.

Store order processing consists of the following tasks:

·        Checking the IDoc data

·        Adding missing data

·        Creating purchase requisitions, purchase orders, deliveries or sales orders in SAP Retail

Procedure

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       1.      In SAP Retail the document category is determined for the store order data that has been entered in the DRS and sent by IDoc, or for the data that has been created on the basis of the dispatcher. This document category is either determined from system settings or is transferred from the IDocs.

       2.      The source of supply is copied or determined, depending on the document category.

       3.      The item data is checked and any missing data is supplied from master data.

       4.      The store order items are rounded off to sales units and order units and optimized to logistics quantities.

       5.      If necessary, different delivery addresses and conditions can be included.

       6.      The document is created.

       7.      The POS interface document flow is updated and confirmation is sent.

If the data transmitted is incomplete or a document cannot be created, the system creates a worklist and sends it to the employee responsible via workflow.

Notes and Remarks

·        Responsibilities must be defined and assigned in Human Resource Management so that worklists can be created via Workflow for the people responsible for the various tasks.

·        The store must be configured for inbound processing.

·        If sales orders are created using store order (several sales orders are created for each store order run using split criteria), requirements are only updated for the sales order that was created last.

·        For information on store order processing, please see the inbound information in the POS interface section of the Implementation Guide (IMG).

 

See also:

SAP Business Workflow (BC-BMT-WFM)