In-Store Merchandise and Inventory
Management
SAP Best Practices for Retail
Purpose, Benefits, and Key Process Steps
Purpose
 These components of the SAPECC Retail System are used in the store. Together with the
central SAPECC, they form a complete retailing system.
 Procurement, goods movement and sales postings make up the mass business of a store.
With In-Store Merchandise and Inventory Management, these postings can be executed by
employees directly in the store.
Benefits
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Low running costs and hardware requirements
Use of standard technologies
Intuitive, easy-to-use user interface
Business processes designed for store needs
Integration into central merchandising & accounting system
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Purpose, Benefits, and Key Process Steps
Key Process Steps
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Purchasing
Store to store stock transfer
Physical inventory count
Goods movements
Goods receipt
Inventory Lookup
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Required SAP Applications and Company Roles
Required SAP Applications
 SAP Enhancement Package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0
Company Roles
 Retail Store Manager
 Retail Warehouse Manager
 Retail Buyer (Invoice Verification)
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Process Flow Diagram
Retail Warehouse
Manager
Retail Store Manager
In-store Merchandise and Inventory Management
Store order
(direct)
External
Purchase order
Return purchase
order
Post goods
return
Create store
order
(stock transfer)
Create Delivery
for store order
Store order &
vendor
determined by
system
Change delivery
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Stock transfer
purchase order
Post goods
issue
Post goods
issue
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Process Flow Diagram
Retail Store Manager
In-store Merchandise and Inventory Management
Create goods
receipt for PO
Stock transfer
Misc. goods
movement
Create goods
receipt for
delivery
With reference
(Article
document)
Initial entry of
inventory data
Create goods
receipt without
reference
documents
With reference
(PO)
Create document
in in-store
merchandise &
inventory
management
Create goods
receipt with
reference
documents
Create return
delivery without
reference doc.
Entering count
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Sales order
Difference values
- purchasing
Editing
differences
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In-Store Merchandise and Inventory management Landscape
MIM
purchasing activities
inventory management
customer order
management
promotion
IDES Smart Retailer Inc.
Sales data
cashier statistics
POS Server
converter
at night:
article and price
EAN
vendor
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Purchasing process of the store
Order data
Head Office
Store
Purchase
requisition,
purchase
or delivery
 delivery
 picking
 goods issue
 invoice
DC
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delivery
Vendor
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Replenishment in MIM
Head Office
Purchase requisition
Replenishment run
Store
SAP Retail Store
Quantity
Quantity
proposal
Stock
Open
receipts
Material
10,00
10,000
0,000
100,000
R100013
9,000
9,000
0,000
90,000
R100014
8,00
8,000
0,000
0,000
R100015
Planning by visual
inspection
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Goods receipt in MIM
Head Office
Vendor
Store
 delivery
 picking
 goods issue
 invoice
delivery
DC
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Goods movements in the store
movement
Store
Head Office
stock store 1
xxx
stock store 2
xxx
normal
stock
promotion
stock
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Other Store
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Inventory in MIM
counting articles
Store
Head Office
inventory result
inventory
xxx
physical inventory
count
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=
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book inventory
xxx
scanner
inventory count
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Sales process
sales order
Store
order
Vendor
Head Office
delivery
DC
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Promotion information
bonus buy
external
systems
Business Information
Warehouse
requirement
s planning
coupons
order
free-goods
discount
goods receipt
conditions
promotion
volume-rebate
arrangements
inventory
management
Price calculation
goods issue
additional
catalog
processing
assortments
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order
processing
POS incoming
outgoing
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