SAP IS Retail - Brief Overview

SAP Retail is a completely integrated retailing system. It maps the complete set of business processes required for competitive assortment strategies, different retail formats, and ECR-driven logistics and distribution. It provides all the functions necessary for modeling business processes in a retail company.

With SAP Retail, SAP has endeavored to model the full "Value Chain," all the links in the logistics pipeline from consumer to vendor. Retailers can thus optimize the whole array of business processes and control checks in managing the flow of merchandise and information among vendors, retailers and consumers.

The key retailing processes include:
* Assortment Management
* Sales Price Calculation
* Promotion Management
* Allocation
* Requirements Planning and Purchasing
* Goods Receipt
* Invoice Verification and Subsequent Settlement of End-Of-Period Arrangements
* Warehouse Management
* Picking and Delivery
* Billing
* Store Supply