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Using the POS Inbound Processing Engine (PIPE), you can receive and process movement data from your stores. The PIPE can process the following data:

  • Sales and returns including the related tax data and discount information

  • Means of payment data

  • Financial transactions

  • Goods movements

  • Totals records and cashier statistics

The PIPE updates the transaction data and makes it available for further processing.

You have the following options:

  • Checking and correction of the data from the transferred POS transactions

  • Summarization of the data of POS transactions in order to reduce the data volume

  • Supply of follow-on systems (for example, SAP BI, SAP Retail or SAP F&R) with the data from the POS transactions for further processing.

Integration

The transferred sales data is relevant for providing the following functions in SAP for Retail with POS data:

  • Supply of POS data to Business Content for POS Analytics and Point of Sale in SAP BI

  • Supply of the POS Interface Inbound in ERP and SAP R/3 with POS data

  • Supply of SAP Forecasting and Replenishment in SAP SCM with POS data

  • Supply of credit card settlement with POS data

The following figure represents the data flow in the PIPE:

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

Features

  • Generation of POS transactions:

    This includes both the manual creation of POS transactions and the conversion of data that is received in different formats such as IDocs of message types WPUBON, WPUUMS, WPUTAB, WPUWBW, WPUFIB and WPUKSR or also in BAPI format.

  • Carrying out of the sales audit with the POS Workbench

    You have the following options:

    • Manual check of the data transfer

    • Error and message analysis

    • Display of processing history and follow-on documents

    • Search for POS transactions

    • Changing POS transactions

  • Carrying out checks for transaction data

    This includes the following:

    • Carrying out of automatic master data checks

    • Check for Duplicate Transaction Numbers

    • Display of gaps in receipt numbers

    • Check for balanced sales and tender totals of POS transactions

    • Comparing receipt data and cash desk totals

    • Checking credit card data

  • Summarization of transaction data using automatic aggregation when sending POS data to follow-on systems or by formation of aggregates

  • Supply of follow-on systems with POS transaction data

    This includes the following:

    • Send data to SAP BI

    • Send sales data via IDoc WPUBON to SAP Retail

    • Send sales data via IDoc WPUUMS to SAP Retail

    • Send sales data via IDoc WPUTAB to SAP Retail

    • Send financial transaction data via IDoc WPUFIB to SAP Retail

    • Send goods movement data via IDoc WPUWBW to SAP Retail

    • Send data to SAP F&R

    • Send data to credit card settlement