POS Interface - Inbound 
Use
Using POS interface – inbound, you can receive and process transaction and master data from your stores. POS interface – inbound can process the following data:
· Sales (including returns)
· Payment lists
· Financial transactions
· Goods movement
· Store goods receipts
· Cashier statistics
· Store orders
· Store physical inventory
· Master data
The SAP system updates the business transactions that were transferred. It also updates the inventory management for purchase and sales prices as well as the information system’s information structures and triggers the billing.
Implementation Considerations
This component is mandatory for SAP Retail.
Integration
The transferred sales data is relevant for the following functions in SAP Retail:
· Inventory Management
The sales data is used to update the stocks in the individual stores.
· Billing
SD Billing, among other components, is used to process sales data. SD Billing prepares the data for follow-on functions such as Financial Accounting, the Information System, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, and Cost Accounting. Billing also prepares the discounts that were granted for the POS systems. If the POS system did not send any information on the discounts granted, the system can determine these automatically, as SAP Retail can compare the actual sales prices with the prices calculated in SAP Retail.
· Replenishment
Automatic store replenishment can be triggered on the basis of sales data.
· Statistics
In addition to the statistics transferred to the Information System from Billing, information structures can also be updated in the Information System directly in inbound processing. The information can also be updated even if Billing is not active for the sales data.
Features
· Determination of which business data was transferred from the stores
· Processing of aggregated or non-summarized data
¡ Non-summarized based on cash register receipts
All the details of every individual sales transaction are transferred to SAP Retail. You use this option if you wish to use all the sales transactions in SAP Retail for statistical analysis or auditing purposes.
If the customer is known in the store, the POS systems can transfer the customer number to SAP Retail. If the customer is unknown, SAP Retail uses a default customer number for updating the data.
¡ Aggregated based on articles sold in each store
Only the total sales of an article are transferred. You use this option if you do not wish to use all the detailed information on sales transactions in SAP Retail. The advantage of this option is that the volume of data processed is much smaller than with the non-summarized method
· Updating the transferred business data to the SAP system
· Error handling
If the SAP system finds errors in the data that was transferred, it writes them into an error log. All other transactions are processed normally, but errors are not processed. You can display and process all the errors and the successfully created documents using the POS interface monitor. As soon as the errors have been resolved manually, you can restart the processing using a program for these transactions. You can also make settings to run the program at regular intervals automatically.
· Restarting at the point of termination
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.
See also:
Physical Inventory: Supporting Store Physical
Inventories
Goods Receipt: Store Goods
Receipt