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Hi Team,

We have sales data in SAP CAR & we don't want to send this data to ECC..

as per requirement we have not assigned task 2002 and 2012 to profile & everything is working fine as per requirement..

now we have only concern that how we will delete this data from /POSDW/TLOGUS table, as this data no more needed for ECC.

Best Regards,

Ravi Thombre.

Hi All ,

Hope you well,

Kindly I am SAP MM Consultant , I will going to Support Retail Company which they will implement SAP Retail Industry , So i Know that Retail Industry have multiple Components that are Suitable for Retail Specifically like IF MM SD , So i Just need to know What Kind of Financial Activities on IS Retail Industry ?,

Thanks Dear

The virtual workshop comprises a pre-recorded presentation and demo content of three hours duration and the possibility to attend Q&A sessions with subject matter experts on a regular basis in the period of November 2015 to April 2016.

Can you imagine that Retail is an industry where a company may create up to 30 millions of sales records– on an hourly basis? There is a huge potential for Retailers to realize benefits with Big Data, for example, Retail loses over 1.2 trillion $ worldwide due to stock problems. The transactional data exists – now retailers need the business intelligence to fix things and get that revenue.

The series “Big Data in the Retail Industry” has been designed to give an overview to the Retail Industry and the specifics of Big Data Analysis in Retail. For efficient learning practical insight shall be given to real-life use cases. There will be a deep dive into the Engineered Service offering “Deployment of Inventory Diagnostic for Retail (IDR)” powered by BW on HANA. The Service analyzes the root causes for over- and understocks in Retail. Specific User Interface requirements, details of KPI analysis and reference architecture shall be shown. The series will also discuss a pilot project in the area of “In-Store Intelligence / Connected Carts.” Dashboard analysis of physical customer movement and reference architecture shall be presented.

The focus of the workshop is to enable partners, customers and consultants to understand the basic questions and challenges of Big Data in the Retail industry. The goal is to provide a practical insight into Big Data reporting and Big Data innovation of the Retail Industry.

Content:

• Introduction to Retail Industry
• Current trends and key figures in the Retail Industry
• Introduction to basic challenges that retailers face in Big Data Projects
• Introduction to specific challenges that retailers face with Supply Chain KPIs
• Deep Dive Use Case: “Deployment of Inventory Diagnostics for Retail” incl. reference architecture
• Deep Dive Use Case: In-Store Intelligence (Connected Carts) incl. reference architecture
• Lessons Learned from Big Data Projects

Pre-requisites:

• Recommended: Basic Retail Industry or basic Big Data Solution knowledge

The workshop is open to SAP customers, SAP partners and SAP employees.
The fee for the workshop is 150 €.
If you are interested, please use the attached XML file to enroll and send it filled back to SAP_for_Retail_Education_St.Ingbert@sap.com.

Hi guys,

I'm currently in a implementation project of SAP Retail with SAP CAR, the customer has also SAP BW on HANA and SAP BO licensed and is part of the project's scope for SD, MM & FI in order to present analytical reports.

1) The customer wish to have his 7 years of historical data available for reporting. I have recommended load the historical data into SAP BW and go live with SAP CAR from the scratch. But if they wants to get some historical data in SAP CAR the way should be load the POS data into CAR using POSDTA and corporate sales into ERP (in order to get replicated to CAR through SLT Server), other option is to use Data Services to load historical sales into SAP HANA DB. It's correct?

2) My position about BW is that only should be used to keep historical data. All the analytical reports of SD, MM and FI should be performed using SAP BO as presentation layer and SAP HANA DB of CAR (with HANA Live) as repository. It's correct?

Regards,

Ramon M.-

Hello Experts,

I am in the process of configuring ALE master data distribution between SAP clients and have successfully configured RFC connections, Ports, Distribution Model, Partner Profiles etc. to link two clients. The issue that I am having processing the MATFET ALEREQ01 message as it errors with the message "You must use retail functions to process the article #########" I understand that MATMAS is core ERP and ARTMAS is IS - Retail the issue that I have is that I do not know if there is a corresponding ARTFET for IS Retail.

Can any one provide any assistance?

Thank you,

Joseph DeMoya

Hi,

I am using BAPI_MATERIAL_MAINTAINDATA_RT  to create Article. I am able to create article using Basic view, Log. DC view etc.

There is no purchasing view in HEADDATA. Also  fields like Purchase organization, net price etc are not present in any structure.How to create an Article  with purchasing view using this BAPI.

Please help me in this regard.

Regards,

Kiran.

Dear Retail community,

In my previous blog I have outlined how paramount an omni-channel strategy for retailers is. See also the publication by McKinsey about the need to go Omni-Channel.

Now I would like to dive into the SAP components retailers can use to build SAP Retail Omni-Channel Commerce scenarios, and describe their role, capabilities and integration in more detail.

Instead of creating an all-new solution from scratch, SAP rather leverages the proven capabilities and special powers of existing SAP components, and composes them together in an Omni-Channel reference architecture as seen below. Based on these components we invest in innovations, new capabilities and integration:

In the following chapters I would like to describe the scenarios and data flow between these main components. This should be a high level reference recommendation for your orientation.

SAP Retail Omni-Channel Commerce scenarios are based on four key SAP components:

• SAP Retail Core Merchandising (IS-Retail)
• SAP hybris Commerce Suite
• SAP Customer Activity Repository (CAR)
• SAP hybris Marketing

supported by optional components

• SAP POS by GK
• SAP hybris Profile
• SAP CRM or SAP Cloud for Customer
• ...

For now I will concentrate on the key components:

Each key component has its special role in the omni-channel landscape, which stretches well beyond pure commerce scenarios.

hybris Commerce Suite (yCommerce) as "Digital Commerce Hub"

The hybris Commerce Suite is THE central platform that drives and manages digital commerce channels within an SAP omni-channel landscape. The data and processes required by hybris Commerce are hereby retrieved, connected resp. aggregated from backend system(s), e.g.

• SAP Retail Core Merchandising (IS Retail)
• SAP Customer Activity Repository (CAR)
• SAP hybris Marketing
• Loyalty Management
• 3rd party systems
• …

This makes the hybris Commerce Suite THE DIGITAL HUB in an omni-channel landscape, providing backend data and processes to the digital shop-front in a transparent, flexible and highly adaptable way.

In an ideal SAP Omni-Channel Commerce landscape, all digital channels are managed by the hybris Commerce Suite, which provides data (products, prices, promotions, stock level) and application logic (order creation and status, account data, ...) to the individual digital channels.

The hybris Commerce Suite is well integrated with SAP ECC and SAP IS Retail for master data, order documents, etc., and SAP continues to invest in an even deeper integration, e.g. with the SAP hybris Commerce, integration package for SAP for Retail.

The Online Documentation for the SAP-hybris Commerce Integration resides in the hybris WIKI, which however is restricted to hybris license customers and partners only.

SAP Retail as Central Core Merchandising system

SAP Retail is the central merchandising system (ERP) as we know it.

In the given SAP omni-channel scenario SAP Retail is the leading system for product master data and prices.

As such it provides the following data to the hybris Commerce Suite:

• Article master data, characteristics, classes
• Stock inventory data
• List prices, promotion prices and bonus buy conditions

This master data is transferred from SAP Retail via the hybris DataHub interface (as XML based iDocs) to the hybris Commerce Suite database.

Within the hybris Commerce Suite this SAP master data is used to

• Build product catalog(s), which are tree-like hierarchy structures of sales categories and promotion areas. This allows a user to browse and navigate in shop categories
• Build a search index(es), allowing users to perform searches within a digital channel
• Display product/price/stock inventory at the shop-front of the digital channel(s)
• ...

In the recommended SAP omni-channel scenario the hybris Commerce Suite is responsible for

• B2C user registration, user management and consumer master data creation
• Order creation

Consumer data records

• are created in the hybris Commerce Suite. So a consumer can register and login with user/password completely within hybris Commerce Suite, change the address afterwards etc. However, hybris Commerce is neither a CRM system for managing customers, nor a governance system to harmonize and distribute master data across the solution landscape. This is the role of a CRM system (SAP CRM or C4C) and MDG.
• The consumer data record can optionally be transferred to the SAP IS Retail system via iDocs. Otherwise a CPD customer is used for the sold-to party in order documents.
  • Please note
    For omni-channel purposes it is strongly recommended not to use a CPD "dummy" customer ID, but to transfer and create real consumer data records in IS Retail/ERP, to have it available e.g. in Master Data Governance solutions, for reporting and for SAP Financials Management, just to name a few.
    From IS Retail the customer ID should also to be distributed to CAR (for omnichannel transaction history), and to hybris Marketing (for 360 degrees view of the customer and for a personalized marketing,
    
    
• In addition, consumer data records can also be replicated from hybris instantly to SAP Cloud for Customer, to allow a C4C based service management. This feature was introduced with hybris Commerce Suite 5.7.

Consumer orders

• are created by and in the hybris Commerce Suite (based on the Asynchronous Order Management scenario) and are stored in the hybris database.
• Then hybris order documents are replicated to a connected SAP ERP or IS Retail system.

As outlined above, the hybris Commerce Suite is well integrated with SAP ECC and SAP IS Retail for master data, order documents. An SAP Retail Industry Integration AddOn for hybris Commerce is available, which supports to transfer and use Generic Articles in hybris Commerce as well as merchadise category hierarchy.

SAP hybris Marketing (yMKT)

SAP hybris Marketing is SAP’s Marketing Platform, based on the formerly known SAP CEI, enriched with SeeWhy capabilities as well as marketing planning and execution applications, just to name a few.

The key is the central repository within SAP hybris Marketing, which is designed to collect marketingrelevant data from all possible systems, applications and angles,

• ERP('s)
• digital channels
• CAR
• PRM
• CRM systems
• loyalty management solution(s)
• 3rd party systems
• social media networks
• market research data (e.g. AC Nielsen, IRI)
• geospatial data
• etc.

For example, SAP Retail feeds SAP hybris Marketing with transactional and master data like product data, customer data, orders, sales organization, merchandise category assignments etc.

In future, SAP hybris Marketing will use customer profile information collected by the new SAP hybris Profile solution, which holds the complete customer profile across the pillars marketing, sales, service and commerce.

For example, SAP Retail feeds SAP hybris Marketing with transactional and master data like product data, customer data, orders, sales organization * merchandise category assignments etc.

Two yMKT applications are integrated with hybris Commerce:

• yMKT Segmentation defines and determines target groups and so-called "campaigns" (= target groups with a validity period, e.g. senior with dog, valid from Dec 1 to Dec 31, YYYY)
• yMKT Recommendation uses advanced predictive analytics capabilities to determine product recommendations at runtime, based on target groups/campaigns, but also personalized on individual customer data, transactions, social interactions stored in yMKT Marketing Data Mgmt,  , …

By integrating the hybris Commerce Suite with SAP hybris Marketing, the Web Content Management Solution application (WCMS) within the hybris Commerce Suite can access SAP hybris Marketing at design time to define the rule-based behavior of a given digital channel by including target groups/campaigns well as product recommendations, see the chapter below.

In an SAP Omni-Channel scenario SAP hybris Marketing is co-deployed on deployed on SAP HANA in co-deployment with the HANA based CAR, to maximize application, hardware and infrastructure performance by shared database tables, e.g. for orders.

Integration of the hybris Commerce Suite with SAP hybris Marketing

hybris Marketing is already well integrated with the hybris Commerce Suite, or to be more precise: with the Web Content Management Solution (WCMS) within hybris Commerce.

When integrating the hybris Commerce Suite with SAP hybris Marketing, the yCommerce's WCMS can access hybris Marketing Segmentation at runtime to have it identify the target group/campaign(s) of a hybris consumer/customer.

This happens in detail:

Design time

• At design time target groups are defined in yMKT Segmentation, and so-called initiatives are created based on target groups with an added time stamp/validity period. So an initiative is a target group valid for a given period.
• At design time in hybris Commerce WCMS, rules and actions are defined. In case actions are defined using target groups, the hybris WCMS calls the yMKT Segmentation and copies the selected initiative(s) into hybris WCMS.

Run time

• At runtime an anonymous consumer browses the webshop. hybris WCMS calls yMKT Segmentation for initiatives even for unknown consumers, who still unveil some information like their browser and device, internet knot of dial in, product categories and searches the consumer performs , etc.

• As soon as the consumer identifies himself (cookie, login, registration) hybris WCMS calls yMKT Segmentation and retrieves the information, to which initiative(s) the consumer is assigned to.

• hybris Commerce applies whatever was defined at design time in WCMS for the given initiative(s).

This schema is also applied to the hybris Marketing Recommendation, an yMKT application built to predict product id’s of recommended products based on the customer marketing profile data in real-time. WCMS uses the information provided by SAP hybris Marketing to maximize the personalized customer experience at the digital shop-front. These capabilities have been further enhanced in the yMKT 1508 release.

SAP Customer Activity Repository (CAR)

SAP CAR is the central Retail planning platform genuinely designed for and built on SAP HANA.

CAR has many tasks for Retail businesses, but let’s focus here on the omni-channel point of view:

CAR collects and analyzes customer activities (e.g. orders) from all channels incl. the POS channels. While POS receipts are processed within the CAR application “Sales Audit” (= POS Inbound), non-POS based orders are provided by IS Retail, which also includes orders originally created in hybris Commerce and replicated to IS Retail.

So CAR holds

1. the complete customer transaction history across all channels (=omni-channel transaction history)
2. precise stock inventory level of the physical stores (depending how quickly the POS systems send data to CAR)

While

1. CAR based customer transactions are integrated with hybris Commerce from 5.4+, to show the complete order history across channels in hybris Commerce based shops (in the hybris > My Account section),
2. store inventory information from CAR can be used e.g. to marry the physical channels with digital commerce, allowing to check inventory in store from webshops, click&collect (=buy online, pick up in store), etc.

This makes CAR the central in-store data hub for true omni-channel scenarios, bringing the physical and the digital commerce space together.

For performance reasons CAR is to be co-deployed with SAP hybris Marketing, allowing POS data to be included in hybris Marketing based product recommendations based on order history, and for a more precise target group/campaign assignment.

An hybris Marketing RDS for Retail is available providing CAR based SAP HANA content to be used in hybris Marketing, e.g. for using omni-channel transactional information and store related data in hybris Marketing Segmentation.

Make use of RDS packages for SAP CAR for an accelerated implementatoon.

Strategic Drivers

As stated above SAP leverages the proven capabilities and special powers of existing SAP components, and invests in innovations, new capabilities and tighter integration. Our strategic drivers are

• Product Data Quality
• Consistent omni-channel pricing incl. promotions
• Contextual personalization of product and offer recommendations
• Reliable inventory availability information for high-volume businesses
  
• 360° customer profiling and marketing planning and execution power
  
  

More details will be added on an ongoing basis, incl. C4C/hybris Commerce integration, SAP POS by GK, ....

Customers and partners with S-User can get a glimpse about the 2015/16 Omni-Channel roadmap in the Innovations section of SAP Service Marketplace
(use the search term "omnichannel commerce").

More information, figures, screenshots and links will be added to this blog as it becomes available.

Stay tuned for updates of this blog, and in the SCN space SAP for Retail.

Enjoy,

Dr. Ingo Woesner

Global Director, Outbound Product Management Retail Omni-Channel

SAP SE

ingo.woesner@sap.com 

www.sap.com 

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Hi,

We are using SAP F&R.

We have certain vendors who supply only in first week of month. e.g week 45 in 205

We are not able to use normal Planning Calendars for such vendors.

In MD27, the periods have to be continuous.

i.e. I cannot put dates like  from 01.11.2015 to 06.11. 2015,   then second period as 01.12.2015 to 06.12.2016. Because the dates should be continuous. i.e. there can be no GAP between the dates.

There is a Time Stream id in F&R. However this is assigned at Location level, hence even that cannot be used.

In Procurement cycle(/FRE/SCHEDULE), if i select "every 4 weeks", and Monday,  there is no guarantee that Monday will come in the first week of the month.

Please mention if there is any way to make sure that Order Proposal are generated only in first week of the month.

Regards,

Girish

Dear all,

We have a scenario where the net price of an article in a PO can be changed by two transactions. We wish to capture all the changes done to the price of an article in a PO(like the time of change, tcode used, user ID, etc) and i wanted to know if anyone has worked on a situation like this and the process followed for it.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

KR,

Devayani

All,

We are trying to create consignment PO using WRP1 but able to generate standard PO only. We have maintained source of supply as 1, maintained stock as consignment and create consignment info record. But when running the program WRP1 it is by default generating a standard PO and not a consignment PO.

Any suggestions in this regard would be appreciated.

thanks,

mahesh.

Hellogurus
Iput the sales orders various unitsof sales persalesorganizationwith thesebasic facts:

ImodifiedinMM42, I keep it welland it worksperfectly

My problem isthat I am creating articles withthefunctionWRF_MATERIAL_MAINTAINDATA_RT  but do not knowwhat to put inwhat structurefor me to stayasthe second picture....italways putsmein this way:

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Customers today are savvy, fickle, and demanding. How do retailers grow profitably in these challenging times? By transforming the business to deliver unified, personalized customer experiences that engage and drive loyalty.To remain relevant, retailers need to provide localized and personalized interactions with compelling choices. Furthermore, the store experience must evolve to attract and keep customers. A fresh view of connected customer engagement is necessary to create differentiated value.Leading retailers are utilizing SAP technology and software to deliver personalized customer experiences, as well as increasing operating efficiencies to reduce costs and run better.

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For years, planning has gained more and more importance. Besides cost and margin pressure, a lack of proper planning can be felt throughout all parts of a company’s value chain . Today, a scalable and integrated planning system is essential for successfully creating corporate budgets and efficient assortments per channel. Retailers need meaningful real-time visibility across all performance metrics to support retail performance analysis for all channels, stores and categories.

The main focus of this workshop is on financial and merchandise planning. Top-down and/or Bottom-Up planning approaches, what-if simulations, planning on different granularities and reconciliation across LOB´s. All abilities are of course based on SAP’s strategic Retail platform – SAP Customer Activity Repository.

SAP delivers a closed loop solution for retail business processes based on industry best practices for an improved efficiency and accuracy in merchandise decision making. Being built on SAP CAR, SAP Merchandise Planning for Retail utilizes planning functionalities of SAP Planning Application Kit, powered by SAP HANA.

Combined with the constantly improved user interface SAP Business Objects Analysis, Edition for MS Excel, SAP is delivering enhanced planning content for financial and merchandise planning, incorporating key business functionalities, like e.g. omni-channel planning, rolling planning and sales fulfillment planning.

In addition to an updated, appealing look and feel, the solution will have several new functional capabilities that will enhance the user experience:

• Intuitive pre- and in-season management
• Rolling planning
• Inventory splits between store and DC
• Pocket calculations
• Highlight changes
• Slice / dice and drilldown
• Alternative hierarchies
• Cell locking
• Inverse calculation / rules of precedence
• Virtual data model based on SAP CAR
• Show/hide measure set (dynamic user defined measures)
• Drag and drop data elements
• Planning functions and sequences

The continuous cooperation between planning and reporting on different company levels and the inclusion of factors from different business areas makes it possible to analyze the current situation of the company and define the right procedures and goals for the future. To get an initial overview of the strengths and possibilities of SAP Planning for Retail, we offer this workshop in which you will receive more information about

• Business Challenges and special Retail Process issues for Planning in Retail
• Financial and Merchandise Planning based on SAP CAR Application ‘SAP Merchandise Planning for Retail’  and using new SAP BO Analysis for MS Excel UI including process description and demo and exercises
• Customizing possibilities with BW-PAK including process description, demo and exercises
• Customizing possibilities with SAP BO Analysis for MS Excel including process description, demo and exercise
• The positioning     of planning inside the SAP Retail landscape
• The SAP Merchandise Planning roadmap including its closely tied solution SAP Assortment Planning for Retail

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Hi all,

Can anyone please explain how we can integrate the SAP POSDM with CRM for loyalty management?

Quick response will be highly appreciated....

Thanks,

Vinay.

You can barely move for statistics about how successful Cyber Monday and its predecessor Black Friday have been for the retail sector – online at least. While store queues may have been somewhat lacklustre, the first big festive trading test has brought UK retailers more than £3.5 billion sales. Not bad for a weekend’s work!

The exponential growth of Cyber Monday shows the genesis of a great promotional idea. The term was coined by NRF BIG Show’s sister event, Shop.org, in 2005 to describe the growing appetite for online shopping in the run-up to Christmas.

Fast forward 10 years and Cyber Monday is now the biggest trading day on the ecommerce calendar – and has inspired a number of ‘copycat’ flash promotions. Alibaba’s assimilation of Singles’ Day into a Chinese retail event has proved phenomenally successful; meanwhile, many retailers are starting to build the profile of ‘Green Monday’, an event created by eBay in 2007 to mark their busiest shopping day of the year.

However, you can have too much of a good thing, and this might well be the case for the fashion retail sector. Though Cyber Monday itself shows no signs of slowing, it has led to the proliferation of the flash promotion model across the year. Indeed, there have been ecommerce websites built specifically around the flash sale model.

A key survival tactic during the global recession, flash sales have become a trusted weapon in fashion retail’s arsenal, and shoppers have now come to expect limited edition deals on a regular basis. In this sea of special offers, shoppers have become ‘promotional blind’, to the point where they expect to receive money off the items they buy all year round.

The difference from five or six years ago is that now things are starting to look up – consumer confidence is rising, as is disposable income for a large percentage of the fashion buying population – yet they still want value for money. And this is eating into profit margins, as fashion brands need to fuel the discount chain with inventory, which they would much rather be selling at full price.

Perhaps it’s time for fashion retail to recalibrate and focus on prioritising other selling points aside from price, such as speed of styles from catwalk to clothes rail. By matching their capabilities more closely with consumer desires, fashion retailers can potentially move gradually away from the current discount-heavy landscape, towards selling more goods at full price.

The key here is not just keeping pace with shopper expectations, but accelerating alongside – even ahead of - them.

Establishing a more intuitive, collaborative relationship will add value to experiences and nurture greater loyalty to the point where the customer is willing to make a purchase irrespective of price, because they’ve bought into the brand ethos.

Then, retailers will no longer have to rely on quick-fire promotions; saving them for special occasions like Cyber Monday, when they will make an even bigger impact.

Hi everyone,

I'm kind of new to SAP and I would need some help in Bonus buy for a particular promotion.

I know how to create bonus buy such a

• 2 for 1
• Buy 1 of this group of mat A and get 1 of this other group B

But right now I'm having trouble this build a bonus buy for this situation:

• Buy 1 bag of dog food (group A) AND 1 coupon (previously created)
• And get 2 bags of treat for free (group B)

I read everything but sadly, I cannot find the answer I'm looking for.

So please if anyone can show how this is done I would be so thankful.