SAP Retail includes the base R/3 components such as Financial Accounting, Controlling and Human Resources. And at the heart of the system is functionality specially developed for Retailing (IS-R).

The following illustration shows the areas comprising SAP Retail:

SAP Retail is fully integrated in R/3, opening up whole new opportunities in the R/3 environment. Thus retailers and suppliers can work even closer together and become true allies in the value chain, without having to painstakingly build bridges between systems. Joint projects for optimizing business processes can be launched, tests carried out and the results accepted or rejected, without any large investments in uncertain projects being necessary.