Retail Business

Retail business involves logistics component from the core to end.

1. Raising Purchase Order to Vendor from DC/HO (MM - May or may not involve purchase requisition)
2. Vendor will deliver goods against the purchase order (SD and IM)
3. DC will do goods receipt (MM-IM)
4. DC/HO will do invoice verification with/without reference to Vendor's Invoice. (MM-IV)
5. HO will release the payment to Vendor (FI)
6. DC will dispatch goods to its retail stores with/without reference to STO. (SD-SH, MM-IM)
7. DC will dispatch goods to whole sale customer using Sales Order. (SD, IM)
8. Stores will do goods receipt (MM-IM)
9. Stores will sell the goods to customers/consumers (POS, SD, MM-IM)

Abbreviations:

FI - Finance
MM - Materials Management
SD - Sales and Distribution
IM - Inventory Management
IV - Invoice Verification
SH - Shipping
POS - Point Of Sale

Retai Components/Addons

These are the components provided by SAP for Retail business

SAP Retail
SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
SAP Demand Management
SAP Promotion Management
SAP Promotion Merchandising Layout
SAP Point-of-Sale
SAP Enterprise Point-of-Sale
SAP Fraud Watch
SAP Customer Analytics for Retail
SAP Workforce Management

SAP IS Retail

SAP for Retail gives retailers of all sizes the power they need to make the right decisions quickly and profitably – the power it takes to create shopping experiences that motivate their customers to return again and again.

SAP for Retail is an end-to-end set of solutions that supports demand-management, merchandise management and planning, store operations, and base finance and HR functions. With SAP for Retail, you get the help you need to better understand your business, anticipate your business needs, and inspire your customers, employees, and shareholders by delivering results.