Retail

SAT has worked and implemented SAP Best Practices for Retail which has helped in redefining the SAP processes to suit the business requirements. SAP Retail processes enable to control and co-ordinate the whole value chain, and thus react swiftly to changes in consumer behavior. The key retail processes include:

Assortment Management
Assortment allows you to create merchandise assortments and
assortment modules and assign articles to them. Articles can be automatically assigned directly to assortments as a result of checking rules during article maintenance or assortment maintenance functions. Alternatively, you can manually assign articles to assortment modules and then in turn assign the modules to assortments.

Sales Price Calculation
Pricing process is structured into pricing calculation at retail and wholesale level. In the retail calculation, the fundamentals of two-step pricing and of data retention for condition records will be described in more detail. In the wholesale calculation we will look at the specific calculation for price listing conditions, and at individual customer discounts and the effect that they have on price determination in the sales order

Promotion Management
Promotions in retail are very important and very complex to coordinate, plan, and deliver. The package helps to identify profitable promotions
based on shopper demand and gives the functionality needed for all participants to collaborate off of one plan – to define and deploy them in a timely manner with minimal re-work and errors.

Requirement Planning and Purchasing
Requirements planning are to guarantee material availability that is used to procure the requirement quantities on time both for internal purposes and for sales and distribution. This process involves the monitoring of stocks and, in particular, the automatic creation of procurement proposals for purchasing.

• Procurement of Replenishable Merchandise
• Procurement of Nonreplenishable Merchandise
• Perishables Procurement

Allocation
Retailers often have to centrally distribute merchandise among a large
number of recipients (for example, stores). You can have the merchandise delivered directly from the vendor to the recipient, from the vendor to a distribution center and then to the recipient, or from a distribution center to a recipient.

Goods Receipt
The process supports goods receipt in stores with reference and with out reference to any system documents. Similarly it allows to process return
deliveries with reference to purchase order and deliveries.

Invoice Verification
The logistics invoice verification is a part of the material management component of SAP ERP. The verification checks the receipt invoice’s
accurate content, prices, and calculations. When the invoice is posted, SAP ERP saves the information and updates the data in the material management component and in Finance.

Warehouse Management, Picking and Delivery
With warehouse management optimize warehouse activities – including inbound and outbound processing, facility management and storage and physical inventory

Store Supply
The merchandise distribution functions of SAP ERP enable to carry out the distribution process efficiently from the planning stage right through to shipping the merchandise. Merchandise distribution planning is carried by using allocation table (push method) or the collective purchase order (pull method) and then trigger and execute distribution centrally in the distribution center

Billing
SD Billing, among other things, is used to process sales data. SD Billing prepares the data for the follow-on functions of Financial Accounting, the Information System, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, and Cost Accounting. Billing also prepares the discounts that were granted for the POS systems. If the POS system did not send any information on the discounts granted, the system can determine these automatically