Retail Terminology
mySAP Retail 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 mySAP 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:
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SAP Retail |
Other parts of the documentation |
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Article |
Material |
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Site |
Plant |
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Logistics calendar |
Factory calendar |
For more information on the languages and components of mySAP Retail in which short text conversion is available, see the SAP Service Marketplace (
Terminology is only replaced in the user interface. In certain situations, for example, in the F1 help, terms such as Material instead of Article and Plant instead of Site appear in this version of the SAP system. Standard SAP terminology is used, in particular, in the Implementation Guide (IMG).
For information on how to replace the interface terminology in your system, see the documentation in BC – Short Text Replacement:
Carrying Out Short Text Replacement.