IS Retail scenario's

[Former Member]

Dear all,

Can any one plz help me out ......with these scenario.

1) If brand is a key requirement for FI postings (separate GL accounts for each brand) and for reports, how would you recommend to incorporate brand into the retail system design? For example, would you recommend to define brand in article master data, or in merchandise category hierarchy, or article hierarchy?

2) Is it possible to configure the system so that an article has the same cost for all the sites. What are the concern points or implications for such a design?

3) When procuring goods from a vendor, the goods that are delivered from the vendor may be referenced from multiple POs and as partial PO item quantities. The actual shipment costs incurred (e.g. freight and shipping charges) also needs to be distributed to the received goods in LIV.

Without using OAPC, is it possible to map the order list function to PO, and then creating grouped PO as the shipment so that the resulting PO document can be used to perform goods receipt and LIV? If so, would OTB check be valid throughout the procurement process (order list, grouped PO, and PO document)? If not, how would you design the process in order to conveniently perform goods receipt at warehouse and for performing LIV so that the actual shipment costs are distributed to the items received?

Thanks in advance..

saurabh dubey

[hnmuralidhara · Accepted solution]

Hi,

(a) You can use Product Hierarchy. Here you can use alphanumeric character string for grouping together articles by combining different characteristics. It is used for analyses and price determination. Separate GL codes are not suggested and recommended for Brands. Therefore, for reporting you can use BI.

(b) In SAP IS Retail, Valuation area is at Site level (Store / DC). Valuation levels above the Site are not Standard function and not supported in SAP Retail. To do this, extensive enhancements may be required in the article master and in other areas.

(c) As long as delivery costs are in PO / CPO, system take care delivery cost during GR / LIV automatically.

Regards,

Muralidhara

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Muralidhara,

Thanks for your suggestion....but if you can explain in more brief so that i can understand the issues more better.

thanks

saurabh dubey

[hnmuralidhara · Accepted solution]

Hi,

(a) Product Hierarchy: For more details, explore following URL;

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/77/1a39516e36d1118b3f0060b03ca329/content.htm

(b) Valuation area is at Site Level (equivalent of Plant in SAP ERP System) recommended. For more details, explore following URL;

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/12/08604b470311d1894a0000e8323352/content.htm

(c) You can incorporate delivery costs (Freight, P&F, Insurance so on) in your PO or CPO at Header Level or Item level. Based on this condition info, system will calculate at the time of GR / LIV. You can assign these delivery costs to different vendor too based on your business scenario.

Bye,

Muralidhara

[Former Member]

Hi,

A brand can be defined as a article with relevant merchendise catagory and merchandise level.

Thanks and regards,

Murali Maganti

Virinchi technologies ltd

[Former Member]

Hi Dear,

If you guys have any documentation which details the process/configuration/technical areas of SAP Insurance, please pass on the same to me.

Thanks and best regards,

Tapan