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Item Management

Item Management. SAP Best Practices for Retail. Purpose, Benefits, and Key Process Steps. Purpose

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Item Management

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  1. Item Management SAP Best Practices for Retail

  2. Purpose, Benefits, and Key Process Steps • Purpose • Within the scenario Item Management, Article creation of single, Generic and structured articles will be displayed in the process for article maintenance. This scenario also addresses the principal features of maintaining articles, creating listing conditions using integrated article maintenance and also at reference handling in the article master. • Benefits • Manage all business related master data • Efficient, consistent master data handling incl. mass data handling and high integration • Efficient discontinuation of item data • Key Process Steps • Create and process a single article • Create and process a generic article • Create and process a prepack • Create and process a sales set • Create and process a display

  3. Required SAP Applications and Company Roles • Required SAP Applications • SAP SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 • Company Roles • Retail Master Data Manager • Retail Assortment Planner • Retail Pricing Manager • Retail Non – Seasonal Purchaser • Retail Warehouse Specialist

  4. Process Flow Diagram Item Management Retail Master Data Specialist Create Single Article (Manually) Implement Listing Maintain Logistics Data for All DCs / Stores Create a maintenance group Extension of a maintenance group by a template Create Core Master Article with Template Check the Article Creation Mass Maintenance using Reference Sites Check the Article Creation for the Copied Article Article copy to create a new Article Mass Maintenance using the Article Monitor Alternative Data Maintenance (Alternative Organizational Levels) Mass Maintenance Using Mass Maintenance Tools Article Discontinuation Create Article List Follow up and Replacement Articles Store Characteristic Values Characteristic Value Grouping Reference Handling for Generic Article Variants Process the Generic Article Create a Generic Article with Variants Assign the Characteristic Profile to a Merchandise Category Create a Characteristic Profile with the new Characteristics Price Matrix for Variants of Generic Articles Matrix Handling for Master Data Fields for the Generic Article Create Prepack Process Prepack Retail Assortment ECC Planner Display a Generated Assortment Module Display the Profile Module for Store M001 using Assortment Menu

  5. Process Flow Diagram Item Management - continued Retail Pricing Manager/Specialist Goods receipt without references Determine valuation prices for prepack components Retail Masterdata Specialist Create a Sales Set Create display Department Store/Shop Concept Create supply relationship Process a Sales Set Process display Price level groups Retail Warehouse Specialist Goods Receipt without references Set up structured article Goods Receipt without references Direct store delivery Create Purchase order

  6. Article Creation

  7. Shoe-Prepack = Prepack Amount arrangement of the variants of an article Article Maintenance/ Listing: Types of Article Therelevant types of articles for Retail are: Single article Case set Sockes = = Sales set Display Groups of articleswith special sales price article combined with an particular packing Generic article

  8. Generic article Variants Generic Article/Variants • Variants - Article, which are only different in particular characteristics (e.g. colour, value ) • Variants of the articles are combined under a generic article • Own master record for every inventory-managed variant

  9. Creation of a Generic Article in SAP Retail Definition merchandizecategory Assignment of char./profilechar. of the material group Qualifier of the char. as variants-forming Creation of an article with art. categorygenericarticle to merch. cat Selection of the relevant variants in matrix

  10. Sales-Set Vendor DC Store Consumer Case, ca. 77/54/25 cm, black-brown89.90+ Case, ca. 69/46/24 cm, black-brown 59.90 + Travelling bag, ca. 63/32/29 cm. black-brown 39.90 Set: Case and travelling bag threepart case-set 169.90 Constitution of the sales sets with articles ofdifferent material groups is possible standard sales price only in the store Component = independent article

  11. Display Vendor DC Store consumer Display consists of a header article and the components Components = independent article

  12. Prepack Vendor DC Store Consumer 5 Pieces x size 365 Pieces x size 3710 Pieces x size 3810 Pieces x size 3910 Pieces x size 405 Pieces x size 415 Pieces x size 42 • All Components of the prepack are variants of ageneric article-> same material group • Vendor allows information about components • Point of the cancellation (referring to the stock) of the prepack adjustable

  13. Inventory Management: Structured - Generic Article Structured material in logistic procedure Objekt Lieferant DC Site Prepack Display Price-/ Sales-Set Generic article -> variants Inventory Management Alternative Inventory Management

  14. Reference Handling

  15. Reference Article Merchandize category genericarticle Explicit referencearticle gives reference data for Refsite Article New Article Creation

  16. Article Generic article Article Generic Article Merchandize categoryreference article Explicit reference article gives reference data for Changes copy Variants

  17. Reference Data Reference article (merchandize category, reference article, explicit reference article) Regular Vendor Season Purchasing-data General. Listing data Sales-data POS Data Master Data Log. data Refsite Listing data distribution channel Log. data other site Customizing / Constants Copy of changes Reference data only by generation

  18. Listing

  19. Listing Procedure Process to assign an article to a general assortment of a store or a distribution center via assortment module By the listing you define whether and when the article can be ordered, delivered and sold.

  20. Assortment- module Assortment Objects DC South-West Assortment- module Assortment DC South-West Article Assortment StoreLondon Store London General assortment 1 Customer Assortment- module General assortment 2 Assortment- module Assortment - module

  21. Assortment Description Store DC Customer (General) Assortment Article IDoc Listing conditions Listingprocess Promotion Assignment table Manual Modules Assortment function

  22. Assortment Level Rules Store London Store Manchester Assortment-level Store Nottingham Deluxe-Assortment Special-Assortment Store Bath Advanced Assortment Base-Assortment House type / Customer type

  23. Store London Store Manchester Store Bath Process of the Classification Rule Check Material group blouses Site attribute: Style "*" (all) modish classic fashionable classic Article attribute: Style

  24. Store Manchester Store London Listing Procedure: Process of the Layout Check Layout modules Cooling bar Drinks ..... Article

  25. Direct Store Delivery (DSD)

  26. Direct Store Delivery: Supply Network

  27. One application with single point of entry to collect some existing master data maintenance transactions An intuitive, user-friendly decision cockpit for the category manager to review related master data (e.g. prices) for category optimization Using a data model to store the supply relationship related master data (distributor-store-item relationships; store specific purchasing, sales and promotion prices) Drag- and drop functionality to create/change supply relationships between vendor-store-article Allow multiple vendors per article and store Selection function for main vendor relationships Change of main vendor per article via an additional maintenance screen Termination of supply relationships within the workbench Automatic update of info records (article-vendor) Mass maintenance User Interface (UI) for the category manager to create and change the supply relationships Sales price calculation with list display on a vendor-store level (also mass-update functionality) Direct Store Delivery (DSD) features

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