The Retail Information System (RIS) enables goods movements to be planned, monitored and tracked throughout the whole supply chain.

The key retailing processes include:

• Promotion Management
• Store Supply
• Assortment Management
• Sales Price Calculation
• Allocation
• Requirements Planning and Purchasing
• Goods Receipt
• Invoice Verification and Subsequent Settlement of End-Of-Period Arrangements
• Warehouse Management
• Picking and Delivery
• Billing
• Store Supply

The retailing processes enable you to control and coordinate the whole value chain, and thus react swiftly to changes in consumer behavior.

New trends, such as electronic commerce or ECR, flow continually into ongoing development cycles. SAP Retail also allows for changes in legal structures or business practices – franchising, for example. This ensures that retailers not only have a future-proof investment but are able to adapt swiftly to a changing market. The growth of your company is not hampered by system constraints, and you can incorporate changes in the real world smoothly and efficiently into the system.

Basic Principles

This Documentation

• SAP Retail Overview
• Roles
• Retail Switch
• Retail Terminology
• Organizational Structure
• Background Processing

Central Coordination

• Master Data
• Strategic Sales

Local Operations

• Purchasing
• Merchandise Logistics
• Sales
• Distributed Data Processing
• POS Interface
• Transfer of PRICAT Messages
• SAP Retail Store
• Distribution of Applications to Multiple Systems (ALE)
• Interface to AFS

Information and Planning System

• Data Warehousing
• Merchandise and Assortment Planning