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 Retail

Use

This generic business function provides you with the following functions:

  • Master Data

    • Article hierarchy

    • Article list

    • Article core master data

    • Article monitor

    • Integrated mass maintenance for articles

    • Article data copy

    • Characteristic value change for generic article variants

    • New screen sequence and article master data fields for fashion

    • Discontinuation workbench

    • Characteristic value storage including characteristic value grouping

    • Maintenance of follow-up/replacement article relationships

    • Maintenance of price level groups

    • Matrix maintenance for individual article fields for generic articles

    • Matrix maintenance for purchase prices and sales prices in article maintenance for generic articles

    • Support for image data in article maintenance:

    • Support for the fashion grade and a new product hierarchy search help in article maintenance

    • Support for article-specific vendor characteristic values

    • Maintenance of department stores and shops

  • Assortment

    • Enhancements to Merchandise and Assortment Planning

    • Enhancement of the assortments to include assortment type, assortment dimension, layout module and time-dependent assignment of assortment users

    • Enhancement to include fixtures

    • Linking layout objects to BI Systems

    • Operational assortment planning and control (purchasing list)

  • Assortment List

    • Time-dependent check of the store-assortment assignment

    • Adaptation for article hierarchies

  • Season

    • Enhancement to include fashion grades

  • Retail Promotion

    • Enhancement to include delivery phases

    • Adaptation of archiving for extended functionality

    • Enhancements to price planning

  • Retail Pricing

    • Enhancement of sales price calculation

    • Enhancement of sales price calculation to include determination of the price point group from the article hierarchy

    • Enhancement of sales price calculation to include family pricing

    • Standalone application to download data for a Retail Revenue Management system

    • Price planning

  • Requirements Planning

    • Multi-step replenishment

    • Deletion facility for forecast data that is no longer required

  • Allocation

    • Changing allocation tables with existing vendor orders

    • Synchronizing purchase order for seasonal procurement with allocation tables

    • New overview list of allocation tables

    • Enhancements to allocation strategies

    • Recipient matrix in the allocation table dialog

    • Enhancements to follow-on document generation

    • Generation of allocation tables with reference to purchase list and purchase order

  • Procurement

    • Seasonal procurement

    • Deadline monitoring for purchase orders

    • Early replenishment:

    • Transfer of planned budgets from BI Systems

  • Inventory Management

    • Retail consignment stock processing

    • Sales from the vendor consignment stores

  • Sales

    • Price analysis

    • Automatic generation of IDocs

    • Enhancements to Additionals monitor

  • Distributed Data Processing

    • SAP Retail Store

    • Enhancements to price catalogs (PRICAT)

    • MAP link to space management

    • Read sales from BI Systems for space management

    • Layout workbench connection to operational assortment planning and control (purchasing list)

  • Analytics

    • Extraction enhancement for breaking down sets, lots and displays into their components when extracting purchase order documents and article documents.

This business function uses the following BC sets:

Technical name

Explanation

EA-RETAIL-AKH

Extends the application component hierarchy to include entries for SAP Retail

EA-RETAIL-IMG

Extends the implementation guide (IMG) to include entries for SAP Retail

EA-RETAIL-MENU

Extends the SAP menu to include entries for SAP Retail

The listed BC sets are activated automatically if your system is run as SAP Retail.