Inventory Visibility
SAP Customer Activity Repository includes functionality that allows you to achieve a near real-time view on inventory in your business. Typically, your inventory information is stored and managed in your SAP ERP source system. Some examples of how inventory counts in SAP ERP are updated include:
Processing of sales documents: sales documents include information on what items and in what quantity are sold, and the inventory counts are adjusted accordingly.
In-store operations, such as the entry of a goods receipt: as the store receives goods, the inventory counts are increased by the received amount.
POS transaction sales data received from SAP POS DM or SAP Customer Activity Repository: data on what items and in what quantity are sold in brick-and-mortar stores is posted to SAP ERP at regular intervals. SAP ERP inventory counts are updated accordingly.
This particular type of update does not necessarily occur frequently enough to obtain a near real-time view on your current inventory.
Support for structured articles: splits the structured articles of type
sales set
from POS Unprocessed Sales into their components and reports the unprocessed quantities of the components.
Inventory Visibility Analytics in SAP Customer Activity Repository
SAP Customer Activity Repository contains several SAP HANA virtual data models (VDMs) that allow you to have a more accurate view on the current status of your inventory.
Current Inventory Position: Processed and Unprocessed Sales
The Current Inventory Position: Processed and Unprocessed Sales VDM combines the following data:
Current inventory counts, accessed by the repository from a source SAP ERP system.
For more information, see Usage of External Data by SAP Customer Activity Repository.
Unprocessed sales data, collected in a dedicated database table (
/POSDW/TLOGUS
) using a worklist.For more information, see Creating Worklists for POS Transactions.
Inventory Visibility Analysis VDM
Cross Company Stock In Transit
The Cross Company Stock In Transit VDM assesses purchase order data, originating from a source SAP ERP system, to provide visibility on stock that is currently in transit between the various locations in your business when these locations are assigned to different company codes.
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Intraday Forecasts
As an additional option to inventory visibility analytics, you can also generate intraday demand forecasts for your products. Knowing how your products will sell over the course of a day allows you to enhance your stock projections and in-store processes accordingly. For more information, see Generate Intraday Forecasts.