POS interface - inbound is where you receive movement and master data (for example, sales data, purchase order data, goods receipt data, article data changes) from your stores. The data is provided in the POS interface - inbound in the form of intermediate documents (IDocs).

IDocs are processed in the SAP system, i.e. the required postings are made and the necessary documents created.

This component is necessary for SAP Retail.

In order to use the POS Interface - Inbound component, you must also use the POS Interface - Outbound and Retail Article Master components.

If errors are detected by SAP, they are recorded in an error log. All other transactions are processed normally, but errors are not processed. You can display both the faulty transactions and the documents that were successfully created via the POS interface monitor and process these as required. Once you have manually corrected the errors, you can run a report to restart processing for these items (this report can also be run automatically at regular intervals).

You can restart inbound processing at any time. If the report is interrupted (for example, due to power failure) the system starts again where it left off.

The following data can be processed using the POS interface:

• Sales
• Payment lists
• Financial transactions
• Goods movements
• Store goods receipts
• Cashier statistics
• Store orders
• Store physical inventory
• Master data