POS Interface - Inbound: Currency Conversion 

Use

For sales transactions, conversion to a new currency can take place at different times for the various parties involved, namely the customer, POS and head office. This creates a number of possible data combinations that need to be taken into account at POS - inbound.

Features

SAP Retail differentiates between the POS currency and the document currency.

Currency in which the R/3 system makes POS data available to head office.

The currency of the appropriate company code is automatically entered in this field when you install the R/3 system or when you upgrade to Release 4. This POS currency applies until you enter a new currency in the field - even if you change the company code currency.

The POS currency makes use of change documents and thus allows a history to be managed. This enables you to determine the currency valid at the time the POS document was created, even after conversion has taken place.

The currency set at the POS for the sales documents. If the POS system is not able to send this currency to head office, the POS currency is used as the document currency.

Activities

  1. The system determines the POS currency that was valid when the sales document was created.
  2. The system determines the document currency. If this was not entered in the sales document, the system uses the POS currency as the document currency.
  3. If the POS currency and document currency are different, the system determines the conversion rate used by the POS. The document is posted in the document currency, but the exchange rate is used to convert the document currency to the POS currency in the document display and the POS statistics.
  4. If necessary, the conversion exchange rate for the POS currency is determined for the means of payment. The means of payment are posted without being converted, but the exchange rate is used to convert the values into the POS currency in the document display and POS statistics.

If the POS is not able to send the document currency, the document currency must be converted simultaneously in the POS and head office. If this is not done, the sales documents are posted with an incorrect currency.

See also:

ISR – SAP Retail: Sites

ISR – SAP Retail: POS Interface - Inbound

ISR – SAP Retail: Currency Conversion (Euro)

CA – European Monetary Union: Currency Changeover in Retail (IS-R)

CA – European Monetary Union: Euro Workbench