The POS (Point of Sale interface) transfers POS data to the R/3 System. The POS data from the POS upload is posted to the operative system using billing. The communication structures are used to transfer this data to the information structures of the Retail Information System.

This data is generally aggregated at store/article level in order to keep the operational documents as small as possible. Data in this form is not suitable for detail analyses. You can use them for target/actual variances, but more detailed data is required for more precise analyses. For this reason, the POS interface can be used to transfer detailed data (either per transaction or aggregated) and cashier data to the information structures of the POS interface.

POS data is thus transferred in aggregated form to information structures S077-S087, S107 and S110 using the documents (billing, goods issue, and so on), while POS data per transaction is transferred to the information structures of the POS statistics (S120, S121, S122). This is shown by the following graphic.