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Steps Involved

The Interface between the AFS and SAP Retail systems goes through the following steps:

  1. Article Master Data:
    Distribution, using ALE, of the SAP Retail Merchandise Category and associated data into AFS customizing tables to facilitate the mapping between AFS Dimensions and SAP Retail Characteristics.
    AFS special customizing to map Grids and Material Groups to SAP Retail Merchandise Categories, Grid Dimensions to Variant creating Characteristics, and Dimension Values to Characteristic Values.
  2. Distribution, using ALE, of the AFS Material Master Basic Data into a Retail Article Master Basic Data (with Variants when the Material is associated to a Grid). Each variant has a separate Article Master in SAP Retail.
  3. Conversion of AFS Sales Price into SAP Retail Purchase Price, using ALE (sending Info Record and conditions).
  4. Initiation of the Listing Procedure Workflow, upon creation of a new Article or Variant.
  5. Sending of a Purchase Order from SAP Retail to an AFS Sales Order via EDI.
  6. Sending of a Shipping Notification from AFS to SAP Retail via EDI.
  7. Sending of an Invoice from AFS to SAP Retail via EDI and executing Invoice Verification in Retail.

Data Exchange

All data exchanges between the AFS and the SAP Retail systems are performed using IDocs.

Merchandise Category and associated data can be distributed from SAP Retail to AFS using the WMERCAT01 IDoc (Œ).

An AFS Material is distributed from AFS to SAP Retail using the ARTMAS01 IDoc. At the Application Document level, the link between AFS Material and SAP Retail Article is achieved through their EAN/UPC codes ().

The AFS necessary information to determine Article price is distributed from AFS to SAP Retail using the INFREC01 (Info Record) and COND_A01 (Condition) IDocs (Ž).

A Purchase order is sent from SAP Retail to AFS using the ORDERS03 IDoc ().

A Shipping Notification is exchanged from AFS to SAP Retail using the DELVRY01 IDoc (‘).

An invoice is exchanged from AFS to SAP Retail using the INVOIC02 IDoc (’).

 

See also EDI and ALE Requirements

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