This provides PDC devices with article data for store requirements planning.

RFC module SRS_PDC_SO_OUTBOUND is used as an RFC outbound interface. The module is called up and provided with data by program R_SRS_PDC_SO_DISP_DATA_OUT.

Article data is transferred by RFC module SRS_PDC_SO_OUTBOUND to the PDC devices for store requirements planning. The article data is grouped. The type of grouping is determined by RFC module SRS_PDC_SO_STRUCTURE.

In the SAP Retail Store Store Order, the user can check for which assortment list groups article data was transferred to the PDC devices. If necessary, the user can format and transfer the data for individual assortment list groups from the SAP Retail Store Store Order.

If you are using the SAP Business Connector for the data transfer, there are specially developed help programs that use field FILE_NAME to generate files in XML format.

For an exact description of the interface’s data structure, see the SAP Interface Repository, which all users can access.

The same prerequisites for using RFC module SRS_PDC_SO_STRUCTURE are valid for RFC module SRS_PDC_SO_OUTBOUND. In particular, you must have either a full or a mixed version of the assortment list.

To be able to use the module, you have to define an RFC destination in SAP R/3 that is assigned to your target system. The target system may be a SAP Business Connector or a non-SAP system (for example, a PDC server). You must enter partner and port profiles for the RFC destination.

In the Customizing for the assortment list profile, make settings using the assortment list structure for which data you want to have in the assortment list and which data is to be provided in function module SRS_PDC_SO_OUTBOUND (see prerequisites for using interface SRS_PDC_SO_STRUCTURE). Using the Customizing for SAP Retail Store Store Order, you can also determine your stocks and open goods receipts or default quantities.

You can transfer customer-specific data to PDC devices using tables CHEADER and CVALUE. You can use special BAdIs for this. You can also display the data prepared in tables CHEADER and CVALUE in the dialog box in SAP Retail Store Store Order.

You can sort and group your data separately using other BAdIs (see the Customizing for SAP Retail Store Store Order).

RFC module SRS_PDC_SO_OUTBOUND formats article data for store requirements planning. The article data is grouped according to assortment list groups (assortment list type, merchandise category). For each assortment list group, an RFC is performed.

Field GROUP_KEY can identify every assortment list group with a unique key.

A name is assigned to the group in field GROUP_TEXT depending on the sorting procedure. This name is derived from the assortment list type and from additional group-specific field contents. The name is used as a group description that is displayed on the PDC device.

The data with which you are provided by RFC module SRS_PDC_SO_OUTBOUND may be too comprehensive for you to process it efficiently on the PDC device. For this reason, RFC module SRS_PDC_SO_STRUCTURE provides you with information about all the existing assortment list groups in your store. This way you can save all your store-specific information on the assortment list structure on the PDC device and the user can only access article data on assortment list groups that are required for his or her work.

In outbound processing, any errors that occur are logged in the application log (transaction SLG1) under object W_SRS and subobject PDC_SO_DISPDATA.

You can execute interface SRS_PDC_SO_OUTBOUND using program R_SRS_PDC_DISP_DATA_OUT. When you do this, RFC module SRS_PDC_SO_OUTBOUND is called for each assortment list group.