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 What's New in SAP Customer Activity Repository 2.0 FP1

 

This release includes the following new features, additional improvements, and corrections:

New Features

Note Note

In order to minimize disruption to your current operations, all new features delivered in this release are disabled by default.

For more information on how to implement a feature, consult its release note below and referenced additional information.

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POS Data Transfer and Audit

Multichannel Transaction Data Management

Unified Demand Forecast

Demand Data Foundation

Inventory Visibility

No new features for this release.

On-Shelf Availability

No new features for this release.

Additional Improvements

POS Data Transfer and Audit

  • The Restore TLOG Entries From Archiving (/POSDW/ARCHIVE_RESTORE_TLOG_F) report has been added. You use this report to restore archived transaction log (TLOG) entries that correspond to selected record qualifiers and flag those entries as archived.

Unified Demand Forecast

Note Note

For more information about UDF, see the following sources:

  • SAP Note 2050229Information published on SAP site: latest revisions of the UDF AFL (Unified Demand Forecast application function library)

  • Unified Demand Forecast: description of the demand modeling and forecasting services

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  • The performance of demand modeling and forecasting has been improved using SAP HANA calculation views.

  • The outlier detection during preprocessing has been enhanced. Exceptional sales values observed during offers and holidays are now excluded from demand modeling.

  • Data changes during preprocessing can now be traced. During preprocessing, the system cleans up potential issues in the provided historical sales data. Examples include outliers, out-of-stock situations, days when the location was closed, or data gaps filled with zero sales.

    For more information about how to set up the tracing, see the documentation of the Define Modeling Control Settings Customizing activity under Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Demand Data Foundation Next navigation step Modeling and Forecasting End of the navigation path (transaction SPRO).

  • The forecasting of complex offers, such as Buy X Get Y (BXGY), has been improved. The results of the Y term are now forecasted in relationship to the X term. To accomplish this, the task decomposition for the production forecast has been improved to group all products for a location into one task. To implement this improvement, see SAP Note 2176058Information published on SAP site. If you forecast complex offers, this is a required configuration. For more information about load balancing, see Configure Load Balancing.

  • Modeling and forecasting now supports additional input data: You can use promotions defined in your SAP ERP system together with the POS_TS time series (aggregated historical POS data persisted in DDF).

    This means that as of this release, you can use SAP ERP promotions with the POS_TS (new), POS_VDM, and SO_VDM time series (for more information, see Time Series).

    • Prerequisite: Your SAP ERP system must have been set up to provide all the promotional information required for demand modeling and forecasting. To determine those requirements for your customer-specific system landscape, please contact your SAP consultant.

    • Implementation: UDF consumes the SAP ERP promotions via the RetailPromotionByArticleLocationExcludingBonusBuy view in the sap.is.retail.ecc SAP HANA content package. For more information about views with promotional information, see the SAP HANA Live for SAP ERP Views Required by SAP Customer Activity Repository section of the Installation Guide, SAP Customer Activity Repository. You can find this guide on SAP Help Portal at Start of the navigation path http://help.sap.com/carInformation published on non-SAP site Next navigation step <your release> Next navigation step Installation and Upgrade Information End of the navigation path.

Demand Data Foundation

  • The Generic Time Series Data Migration (/DMF/TS_GENERIC_MIGRATION) report has been added. You can use this report to migrate time series data from a compressed format into an uncompressed format. For more information, see the report documentation (transaction SE38).

  • The Product Location Master Data (/DMF/MDIF_PROD_LOC_INBOUND) function module has been enhanced to include the IT_PROD_LOC_LAND_COST parameter. The parameter allows you to use the delivered price when calculating margins for the offer financials and the offer display. Delivered price is a term used to define the total cost of carrying a product at a location. For more information, see the function module documentation (transaction SE37). For related enhancements to the Maintain Indicators for Offer Calculations Customizing activity, see Effects on Customizing -> Demand Data Foundation below.

  • The sales projection, which can be generated for products in SAP Assortment Planning for Retail, has been improved. It now supports two additional types of historical demand data, namely consumption data (CONS_TS time series) and the virtual data model for sales orders (SO_VDM time series).

Additional Content

The following SAP HANA reuse views have been deprecated and replaced by newer views optimized for better performance:

Deprecated Reuse View

New Reuse View

MultiChannelSales

MultiChannelSales_V2

POSSales

POSSales_V2
Effects on Customizing

Note Note

For more information about a Customizing activity or Business Add-In (BAdI), see the accompanying system documentation (transaction SPRO).

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POS Data Transfer and Audit

  • You can now map customer-specific fields to the /POSDW/TLOGF and /POSDW/TLOGF_X transaction log tables. The mapping is maintained in the Maintain TLOGF Customer Enhancement Field Mapping Customizing activity under Start of the navigation path SAP Customer Activity Repository Next navigation step POS Data Management Next navigation step POS Inbound Processing Next navigation step Customer-Specific Enhancements and BAdI Implementations Next navigation step Enhancements for In-Memory Analytics End of the navigation path.

    The settings maintained in this Customizing activity will be used when the following BAdI pairings are activated:

    Table

    Read BAdI

    Write BAdI

    Transaction log table (/POSDW/TLOGF)

    /POSDW/TLOGF_READ_ENH

    /POSDW/TLOGF_WRITE_ENH

    Transaction log extensions table (/POSDW/TLOGF_X)

    /POSDW/TLOGF_X_READ_ENH

    /POSDW/TLOGF_X_WRITE_ENH

Demand Data Foundation

  • You can now generate a location hierarchy out of every location cluster set activated in the SAP Assortment Planning for Retail application. For this, the Location Clustering Settings Customizing activity has been added under Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Demand Data Foundation Next navigation step Data Maintenance Next navigation step Location Clustering End of the navigation path. For more information about SAP Assortment Planning for Retail, see Start of the navigation path http://help.sap.com/rapInformation published on non-SAP site End of the navigation path.

  • You can now define function types (such as color) for attributes (such as red, green, and blue). You can also create your own function types in a customer domain value range. For this, the Define Function Types Customizing activity has been added under Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Demand Data Foundation Next navigation step Data Maintenance Next navigation step Attributes End of the navigation path.

  • The Maintain Indicators for Offer Calculations Customizing activity under Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Demand Data Foundation Next navigation step Data Maintenance Next navigation step Offer End of the navigation path has been enhanced:

    • The field help of the Moving Average Price in Offer option has been changed to Determine Cost Price for Offer.

    • The Delivered Price option has been added to the Cost Price for Offer field.

    • The User Proj. Fcst Pct. field has been added. It enables the distribution of user projections by forecast percentage for offers.

  • You can now specify an additional parameter for offer financials calculations. It allows you to replace negative forecast values by zeros. For this, the Neg. Fcst to Zero field has been added to the Specify Parameters for Offer Financials Customizing activity under Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Demand Data Foundation Next navigation step Data Maintenance Next navigation step Offer End of the navigation path.

  • You can now use a new Business Add-In to build data related to offer, product, and unit of measure. The BAdI: Map Product UoM Request has been added under Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Demand Data Foundation Next navigation step Data Maintenance Next navigation step Offer Next navigation step Offer Export to the Execution System Next navigation step Enhancements Using Business Add-Ins End of the navigation path. The data is sent to SAP ERP as part of the offer transfer process.

  • You can now use a new Business Add-In to manage user-created function types and additional attributes from non-SAP sources. The BAdI: Manage Attributes and Function Types has been added under Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Demand Data Foundation Next navigation step Data Maintenance Next navigation step Attributes Next navigation step Enhancements Using Business Add-Ins End of the navigation path

  • The Maintain Number Range for Attributes Customizing activity has been added under Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Demand Data Foundation Next navigation step Data Maintenance Next navigation step Attributes End of the navigation path.

  • The Maintain Number Range for Attribute Values Customizing activity has been added under Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Demand Data Next navigation step Data Maintenance Next navigation step Attributes End of the navigation path.

Documentation Improvements

With SAP Customer Activity Repository 2.0 FP1, you benefit from a simplified navigational structure in the application help. Various sections of the application help have been renamed and/or reorganized as follows:

Old Navigational Structure

New Navigational Structure

Change Type

Start of the navigation path SAP Customer Activity Repository Next navigation step Usage of External Data by SAP Customer Activity Repository End of the navigation path

Start of the navigation path SAP Customer Activity Repository Next navigation step Multichannel Transaction Data Management Next navigation step Usage of External Data by SAP Customer Activity Repository End of the navigation path

Reorganization

Start of the navigation path SAP Customer Activity Repository Next navigation step POS Transaction Management End of the navigation path

Start of the navigation path SAP Customer Activity Repository Next navigation step POS Data Transfer and Audit End of the navigation path

Renaming

Start of the navigation path SAP Customer Activity Repository Next navigation step Demand Data Foundation Next navigation step Demand Modeling and Forecasting Next navigation step Unified Demand Forecast (UDF) End of the navigation path

Start of the navigation path SAP Customer Activity Repository Next navigation step Unified Demand Forecast End of the navigation path

Renaming and reorganization

Start of the navigation path SAP Customer Activity Repository Next navigation step Demand Data Foundation Next navigation step Demand Modeling and Forecasting Next navigation step Enterprise Services End of the navigation path

Start of the navigation path SAP Customer Activity Repository Next navigation step Additional Content Next navigation step Enterprise Services End of the navigation path

Reorganization

Start of the navigation path SAP Customer Activity Repository Next navigation step SAP HANA Content for SAP Customer Activity Repository End of the navigation path

Start of the navigation path SAP Customer Activity Repository Next navigation step Additional Content Next navigation step SAP HANA Content for SAP Customer Activity Repository End of the navigation path

Reorganization

Start of the navigation path SAP Customer Activity Repository Next navigation step SAP Smart Business for SAP Customer Activity Repository End of the navigation path

Start of the navigation path SAP Customer Activity Repository Next navigation step Additional Content Next navigation step SAP Smart Business for SAP Customer Activity Repository End of the navigation path

Reorganization

Corrections

For more information on the corrections introduced by this release, see the SAP Support Portal at Start of the navigation path http://support.sap.comInformation published on SAP site Next navigation step Software Downloads Next navigation step Support Packages and Patches Next navigation step A-Z Index Next navigation step C Next navigation step CAR RETAIL APPLICATIONS BUNDLE Next navigation step CAR RETAIL APPL BUNDLE 1.0 End of the navigation path.

More Information

For more information about this release, see the following sources:

  • SAP Note 2088924Information published on SAP site - Release Information Note for SAP Customer Activity Repository retail applications bundle 1.0

  • SAP Help Portal for SAP Customer Activity Repository at Start of the navigation path http://help.sap.com/carInformation published on non-SAP site End of the navigation path