Interface for Retail Revenue Management Systems 

Use

The Retail Revenue Management interface (RRM interface) bundles a variety of SAP Retail functions for connecting external Retail Revenue Management systems (RRM systems). These functions provide you with a cooperative process for determining profit-maximizing sales prices.

The RRM interface contains functions for exporting data that will be necessary for the price optimization process in RRM systems. The data includes:

·        Article and store master data

·        Current purchase price

·        Price points

·        Historical sales data

The sales prices that are optimized using this data are imported from the RRM system to SAP Retail. The customary retail pricing processes and functions then apply for this data.

There are two different interfaces for exporting data from SAP Retail:

·        Article and store master data are exported in the report RWRP_RRM_OUTBOUND.

·        Purchase prices, price points and historical sales data are exported using the Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI) BAPI_RP_RRM_OUTBOUND_DATA_GET, which belongs to the method OutboundDataGet from the SAP Business Object BUS6060 (Retail Revenue Management Interface).

The required data can also be transferred in individual steps. You can also schedule the report RWRP_RRM_OUTBOUND for background processing. This enables automatic periodic transfer of missing actual sales data to the RRM system.

The Business Add-In (BAdI) RP_RRM_OUTBOUND allows for flexible data exports that you can tailor to specific customers.  This BAdI has an extendable filter type, which enables you to connect various RRM systems.

Prerequisites

The settings required to map these functions correctly are described in Functional Requirements for the RRM Interface.

Procedure

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       1.      You export data to an RRM system using the function RRM Interface Data Export

       2.      In this RRM system, you determine the profit-maximizing sales prices using the methods in this program.

       3.      In the RRM system, you trigger the import of the determined sales prices to SAP Retail.

The RRM system must provide a relevant dialog.

       4.      You can process the imported data on sales prices In SAP Retail using the customary retail pricing functions.

If you have initially only generated pricing documents when importing the sales prices, you can activate the sales prices in a second step when you process the pricing document during the normal release procedure.