The SAP Store provides you with a user interface based on the internet browser that has been tailored to meet the exact requirements of the retail store. This means that you can present the specially created or adapted SAP Retail functions to the entire store personnel.

The interface combines the intuitive usability of a WEB browser with the new, stored-based transactions of the central SAP Retail System. This means that even relatively new part-time workers or support staff will find these functions easy to learn and fun to use.

The SAP Store component is a separate product that builds on SAP Retail and can be implemented in your retail stores..

At the time you access the component, there must be a data connection to the central R/3 System. To communicate with the central systems, the retail stores require ISDN connections.

The screens perform at their best if you are using a 17" screen.

Bear in mind that the SAP Store business functions do not support the following Browser functions:

• Back
• Print
• Forward

You should therefore set the Browser settings so that when you start the functions the menu bar does not appear. The R/3 transactions provide you with comprehensive navigational options.

SAP Store belongs to the area Distributed Retailing within SAP Retail.

The software package is run in the central system on a SAP Retail application server. It starts when you call up the retail stores on the R/3 System. An ITS (Internet Transaction Server) is used to provide you with the necessary functions via the IACs (Internet Application Components). This ITS communicates on the one side with the R/3 System via BAPIs (Business Application Program Interfaces), and on the other side with your retail stores via your own intranet or via the internet with standard WEB browsers.

Before you can access the SAP Store, you first need to log on to the initial screen. You require both of these screens for navigation and for the transfer of general parameters, such as store numbers. This means that you can access all of the functions for the SAP Store from the Browser, via the initial screen, and then via the menus.