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PRICAT Inbound

PRICAT Inbound. SAP Best Practices for Retail. Purpose, Benefits, and Key Process Steps. Purpose In this scenario you transfer pricing and catalog-related data for goods and services from a vendor to a buyer. Benefits

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PRICAT Inbound

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  1. PRICAT Inbound SAP Best Practices for Retail

  2. Purpose, Benefits, and Key Process Steps • Purpose • In this scenario you transfer pricing and catalog-related data for goods and services from a vendor to a buyer. • Benefits • Efficient merchandise control which fulfills the requirements of ECR-compliant procurement processes • Simulation of data coming from the manufacturer and process this data further in the retailer system • Key Process Steps • Simulation of PRICECATALOGUE IDoc inbound processing • Inbound Processing of a Price catalog • Processing of Catalog Items manually / automatically • Creating / Changing of articles

  3. Required SAP Applications and Company Roles • Required SAP Applications • SAP SAP enhancement package 3 for SAP ERP 6.0 • Company Roles • Retail Master Data Manager • Manufacturer

  4. Process Flow Diagram PRICAT Inbound Manufacturer Create Pricecatalog - IDoc Simulated Retail Master Data Manager Checking / Changing Catalog Items Posting a Pricat Item Inbound Processing Selecting a Catalog Create / Change Articles Automatic Processing

  5. PRICAT InboundIntroduction BetweenRetailers and Manufacturer of the German textile and apparelindustry, cooperativelyconceptswithintheframework of procurement, marketing and using of information and communication technology aredeveloped. Collaborationconcepts, like Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), earn on importance. Thenewtechnologiesopensmall and middlecomaniesthepossibility to accomplishthestructurechange and also to reinforce  their competitive strength. SAP offers a softwaresolutionwithintheframework of the SAP Best Practices Version, whichreflectsthenewrequirements of ECR conformable procurement processes.

  6. PRICAT InboundIntroduction With SAP software you have the possibility to build up the manufacturer and also the retailer side. The ECR conformable procurement processes embrace the price catalog, the buyer managed inventory, and also the vendor managed inventory.

  7. Is an EANCOM standard message type Area of master data Enables pricing and catalog-related data for goods and services to be transferred from a vendor to a buyer Complete listing of all products Notification of changes Information relevant for all customers Customer-specific information Data supplied to a central article database Price Catalog: PRICAT

  8. BAPI/ALE Price catalog: Supply of a data pool Vendor Retailer Sender Recipient Data Poolf. e. Sinfos Generate of PriceCatalogue Idocs XI XI Inbound processing of PriceCatalogueIdoc Master Data

  9. Price catalog inbound: process flow Simulation of IDoc Inbound processing Display Header Data (catalog) List of article Adopt Profile Process Price catalog manual / automatical Process not existing article data in the Customer system (EAN‘s) / Creating article Process available article data in the customer system (EAN‘s) / Update of article

  10. Price Catalog Inbound: Catalog Creation • The catalog is stored on the database as a separate business object PriceCatalog • EANCOM fields that do not correspond to R/3 fields are transferred to the system • It is possible to select articles to be updated • Transfer can be controlled at field level • If an EAN exists uniquely in the system, article assignment is carried out • If errors occur, an application log containing all messages is created (transaction PRICATLOG)

  11. Preparation before catalog transfer Assignment of ILN to SAP vendor, purchasing group Assignment of merchandise categories to SAP merchandise categories (for each ILN) Assignment of SAP merchandise categories to purchasing groups Workflow preparation Assignment of buyers (SAP users) to organizational units, to which the relevant purchasing groups are assigned (transaction PFOM) Price Catalog Inbound: Preparation

  12. Header data Set catalog status After processing, the catalog statusis automatically set to 'processed' Catalog statuscanbe manually setto 'closed‚ Set test indicator If you want to process the catalog, you have to always enter the purchasing group Price catalog could be processed manually or automatically Price Catalog Inbound: Accessing Catalog Maintenance

  13. Price Catalog Inbound: Accessing Catalog Maintenance List of articles • In the list of articles, you will find the article (items) of the new price catalog • Items are distributed among several views according to their status • New items have no entry in the field “article” and you can find this items in the “to be processed” tab and “all entries”

  14. The assignment of EAN to an article occurs automatically when a catalog is created (unique EAN) Manually in catalog maintenance Assigned article is stored in price catalog Can be entered at a later date If the EAN is not unique, all possible EANs are displayed For assignment, articles are also displayed with the vendor article number from the catalog New articles need template articles (proposed from the merchandise category) Price Catalog Inbound: Assignment of EAN to an Article

  15. Adopt Profile The transfer of catalog data to article data could be done with an adopt profile The adopt profile enables the simultaneous display of catalog data and article data (or in the case of new data, the template article) Required data mustbeexplicitlytransferredfromthe catalog to the article side, either manually orbyusing a transferprofile Adoptprofilescouldbestored and usedagain The article fieldscanbeedited Price Catalog Inbound: Transferring Catalog Data to Article Data

  16. Automatically By mapping the EANCOM packaging type to alternative unit of measure in the converter During R/3-R/3 data interchange Manually in catalog maintenance Can be changed at a later date New units of measure must be explicitly transferred It is possible to transfer all units of measure from the catalog Price Catalog Inbound: Assignment of EAN to Unit of Measure

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