Retail Terminology 

SAP ECC is developed and delivered using standard SAP terminology. In the retail industry, however, some languages use terms that differ from these standard terms. SAP therefore offers customers working in these languages a tool for converting the standard terms on the user interfaces of the entire standard system to the terms specific to the retail industry. This technique is known as Short Text Replacement.

The documentation for SAP Retail is based on the assumption that you have replaced the short texts in your ECC system. When you follow links from the Retail documentation to other parts of the SAP documentation, however, note that standard SAP terminology is used.

The following terms differ depending on where you are in the documentation:

SAP Retail	Other parts of the documentation
Article	Material
Site	Plant
Logistics calendar	Factory calendar

In the SAP Service Marketplace, you can find out the languages and components for which short text replacement is available and how to activate it ( http://service.sap.com/retail) under Expert Knowledge Corner ® Across Components ® Short Text Replacement in Retail Short Text Replacement.

Terminology is only replaced on the user interface (short texts). In certain situations, for example, in the F1 help, terms such as Material instead of Article and Plant instead of Site appear in this version of the SAP system. Standard SAP terminology is used, in particular, in the Implementation Guide (IMG).

Short text replacement is client-independent.

 

See also:

Background Processing: Retail Terminology