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SAP for Retail Community Page - Setting Up SAP ECC as SAP Retail

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The requirements that retail companies place on software solutions, in particular in the areas of planning and distribution, are different from the requirements of industrial companies, with their production-oriented objectives. For this reason, SAP developed a special retail solution, which you can use by setting up the SAP ECC component as SAP Retail. You do this by activating the SAP Retail business function set.

Integration

Have you seen the SAP for Retail Business Process Expert wiki homepage on SCN? It is the central entry point to an elaborate knowledge repository for SAP for Retail. It contains not only a wealthy resource of information provided by business experts at SAP, but also contributions from community members, such as this page, as well!

Activating the SAP Retail business function set enables you to use functions developed specifically for the retail sector. These functions are described in this documentation. A significant difference between the retail system and a manufacturing system is the use of the article master as opposed to the material master. The majority of the retail-specific functions can only be used with articles and not with materials. In all other functions that are also relevant for retail, it is possible to use articles. However, it is often not possible to use articles in production-oriented functions. Note that most of these functions have not yet been tested with articles. There are no restrictions for using materials in an ECC system set up as SAP Retail, however, apart from in the Material Ledger and MRP Area functions.

If you want to use articles in functions with a production focus, make sure that this has been thoroughly tested in your project.
If you activate the SAP Retail business function set, you cannot use any other industry solutions. Once you have configured your system as an SAP Retail system, it cannot be reversed.

In the case of the terms 'material' and 'article', we differentiate between the master data and their designation on the system user interface. Whereas either 'material' or 'article' is used consistently for both master data records in the system , this part of the documentation uses 'material' for master data records that were created using the maintenance transactions in the standard system (manufacturing system), and 'article' for master data records created using the maintenance transactions in SAP Retail_._

Prerequisites

You should only configure SAP ECC as SAP Retail if you are in possession of a valid license for SAP Retail.

Activities

If you activate the business function set SAP Retail, the core functions Material Ledger and MRP Area are no longer available. If you already use these functions and want to configure your system as an SAP Retail system, you must first deactivate these functions. The applications contain functions for reorganizing the data associated with this.

Vendor master processing represents another anomaly. If you make the relevant setting in Customizing in SAP Retail, changes made to master data can be automatically passed on to associated material master data and purchasing info records. While the standard system ignores these settings in Customizing in the account groups for vendors, any settings that have been made will become active when the SAP Retail business function set is activated, therefore potentially changing the system behavior. Before you switch on the business function set, you should therefore check the settings for transferring changes to master data in Customizing for Logistics - General under Business Partner ® Vendors ® Control ® Define Account Groups and Field Selection (Vendor) and, if necessary, adjust these settings.

Finally, activate the SAP Retail business function set. For more information, see the Implementation Guide under Activating SAP ECC Extensions.

Organizational Structure: Company Code

A company code is an independent accounting unit that represents an independent company in the legal sense. It is the central organizational element in Financial Accounting.

Use

In the retail sector, company codes can be used at distribution chain level or even at the level of individual stores. For this reason, goods movements (such as stock transfers) between different company codes are common in SAP Retail.

Integration

Various assignments between a company code and other organizational units are possible:

A purchasing organization can be assigned to a company code. In this case, the purchasing organization can only order for sites within this company code.
A valuation area is the organizational unit subject to inventory management on a value basis in the SAP system. In SAP Retail, the valuation area must always correspond to a site.

You assign a company code as an attribute to the valuation area that is already allocated to a site either in the site maintenance or in Customizing. Each sales organization must be assigned to a company code in Customizing. This assignment forms the link between Sales and Distribution and Accounts Receivable Accounting.

Organizational Structure: Site

A site is a store, a distribution center or a production location. In SAP Retail, the site is the organizational level at which merchandise replenishment is planned and stocks are managed.

Integration

A store is assigned one purchasing organization and one sales area (sales organization, distribution channel and division) and thereby also a distribution chain, to which the store belongs and which is used primarily for intercompany billing purposes. The store must be authorized to receive goods from the sales area to which the supplying distribution center belongs. If it is to be possible for merchandise to be transferred from one store to another, then the recipient store must also be authorized to receive goods from the sales area to which the supplying store belongs.

Each distribution center is assigned a purchasing organization (and, if required, a sales area) for determining warehouse transfer prices and units of measure.
A distribution center can also be assigned to a site (normally to itself) and a distribution chain (for determining sales prices). These assignments enable merchandise in the distribution center to be valuated at retail prices. This sort of valuation is most common in the apparel industry.
Each site belongs to exactly one company code.

Sites

This section describes the relationship between merchandise categories, departments, receiving points and goods recipients.

Departments

A store can be divided into departments and receiving points. Stores are divided into departments for the purposes of retail management.
Departments play an important role in store-internal logistics. A department can be assigned to one receiving point.

Merchandise Categories

Information can be stored at site/merchandise category level. This is important for the listing of articles and Inventory Management on a merchandise category level. A merchandise category can be assigned to a department at site level. Depending on the profile for value-based inventory management, you can define how inventory management is to be carried out per merchandise category.
The merchandise category to which an article belongs allows the following information to be determined for the supply of a store with merchandise:

Departments to which articles are normally assigned. For example, article 4711 is assigned to merchandise category XY.
Receiving points to which departments are assigned. For example, department E is assigned to receiving point 3.OG.
Unloading points to which receiving points are assigned. For example, unloading point DOOR1 and goods recipient 1023 are assigned to receiving point 3.OG.

Receiving points

A store can have more

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