SAP delivers standard reports to allow customers to perform loss prevention analytics on their POS data.
These reports help the customer to analyze historical POS information and study specific patterns to detect fraudulent transactions.
- Summary Report - They contain POS information on day and transaction level
- Exception Report - Contain the details of the patterns and the related information
- Lookup Reports - Details about a specific entity
Summary Reports :
They contain details about transactions like sales, discount, refund.
Under this category we have the following BEX reports :
Refund Summary Report
Overshot Summary Report
Transaction Snapshot Summary Report
Sales Summary
Post Void Summary
Transaction Discount Summary
Item Discount Summary
Exception Reports :
These reports contain information regarding one or more exception templates. These exception templates are preprocessed patterns which help to recognize fraudulent activities.
For more on exception templates please refer to http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-54917
The BEX exception reports are :
Report Card Report - It contains information on more than one pattern on a higher level.
Exception Report - Contains information about one particular pattern.
Lookup Reports :
Under this category we have
Cashier Lookup - Contains information about a particular cashier.
Credit Card Lookup - Contains information about the transactions done using credit cards.
In addition to these reports we also have the transaction viewer and the journal viewer.
Transaction Viewer
It contains the details of a particular transaction like header, line item, loyalty, discount. The view of the report can be changed from the cashier to POS number. You also have an option to navigate to the Journal Viewer.
Journal Viewer
This report is used to view the surrounding transactions done by the same cashier or from the same POS register within a stipulated period of time frame
It can be opened from the transaction viewer or can also be used as a stand alone report. Since its a web dynpro component it can be called up from any application as well.
When opened from the transaction viewer, it picks up the parameters like posting date and store id from it.
It displays the list of transactions performed at the same POS register or the same cashier for a single day. The minimum parameters are date, store id.
The selection criteria can be changed after loading the report in the selection criteria area.
The Active pattern column indicates that the transaction is suspicious as per one of the active patterns. It displays the sales movement, goods movement, financial transactions, etc.When you click on a transaction number it navigates to the transaction viewer.
