Solved: Retail & Manfacturing on same client

Former Member · ‎03-14-2011

Dear Gurus,

Is it possible to work with IS Retail and manfacturing (process industry) on same client ?

Regards,

MaX

Former Member · ‎03-21-2011

Hi Max,

There is no direct answer to it without understanding the kind of requirements business has with respect to access of "Retail industry solution" in the ERP manufacturing environment. Let me make a try and provide you with few insights and facts around it.

Technically speaking, we can use certain Retail specific functionalities in the ERP environment without even activating any IS Retail component like Retail Pricing, Listing for customers etc.

The next level is "Retail Switch" to transform ERP system to IS Retail system and activation of enterprise extension retail (EA-RET, though this is not mandatory) till ERP 2004 (ECC 5.0) to enable additional SAP Retail functionalities in the ERP environment. similarly, we can activate EA-RET, without pulling the "Retail Switch" which will keep the system as ERP and allow some additional functionalities which comes from the retail space.

One has to be very careful, while deciding (which again, completely depends upon the kind of additional or replaced functionalities required by the business in the changed landscape) whether to pull the "Retail Switch" or not as there is no going back from here.

From ECC 6.0, this arrangement has gone for a change where the industry solutions become part of the SAP Enterprise Core Components (ECC) and the switch framework now controls the activation of both "industry extensions" and "enterprise extensions" An industry extension is related to a corresponding business function set, which in turn have different business functions for different industry specific functionality.

SAP Retail is represented by bfs as ISR_Retail.

Now with this ECC 6.0, we have this concept of enhancement packages, for delivering new and enhanced functionalities around core and industry solutions. These EP are sub-divided into enterprise business functions and industry business functions with an exception that "SAP Retail" enhancements are included in the enterprise bf and not industry bf. As these enhancement packages are built on top of each other, by installing the latest one, the entire functionalities of previous ones will be incorporated.

Now coming to your questions again with this background for ECC 6.0, it is possible to activate these bf in standard SAP ERP system without activating retail switch, where the dependencies is not on enterprise extension EA-RET in the technical structure.

Thus, at last, I again stress that the decision to activate the retail switch or not and which BF needs activation in the standard ERP depend upon the careful scrutiny of business requirements around it.

I hope, your query is reasonable answered and please award the points accordingly.

Kind Regards,

Kunwar

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Former Member · ‎03-21-2011

Hi Max,

There is no direct answer to it without understanding the kind of requirements business has with respect to access of "Retail industry solution" in the ERP manufacturing environment. Let me make a try and provide you with few insights and facts around it.

Technically speaking, we can use certain Retail specific functionalities in the ERP environment without even activating any IS Retail component like Retail Pricing, Listing for customers etc.

The next level is "Retail Switch" to transform ERP system to IS Retail system and activation of enterprise extension retail (EA-RET, though this is not mandatory) till ERP 2004 (ECC 5.0) to enable additional SAP Retail functionalities in the ERP environment. similarly, we can activate EA-RET, without pulling the "Retail Switch" which will keep the system as ERP and allow some additional functionalities which comes from the retail space.

One has to be very careful, while deciding (which again, completely depends upon the kind of additional or replaced functionalities required by the business in the changed landscape) whether to pull the "Retail Switch" or not as there is no going back from here.

From ECC 6.0, this arrangement has gone for a change where the industry solutions become part of the SAP Enterprise Core Components (ECC) and the switch framework now controls the activation of both "industry extensions" and "enterprise extensions" An industry extension is related to a corresponding business function set, which in turn have different business functions for different industry specific functionality.

SAP Retail is represented by bfs as ISR_Retail.

Now with this ECC 6.0, we have this concept of enhancement packages, for delivering new and enhanced functionalities around core and industry solutions. These EP are sub-divided into enterprise business functions and industry business functions with an exception that "SAP Retail" enhancements are included in the enterprise bf and not industry bf. As these enhancement packages are built on top of each other, by installing the latest one, the entire functionalities of previous ones will be incorporated.

Now coming to your questions again with this background for ECC 6.0, it is possible to activate these bf in standard SAP ERP system without activating retail switch, where the dependencies is not on enterprise extension EA-RET in the technical structure.

Thus, at last, I again stress that the decision to activate the retail switch or not and which BF needs activation in the standard ERP depend upon the careful scrutiny of business requirements around it.

I hope, your query is reasonable answered and please award the points accordingly.

Kind Regards,

Kunwar

former_member472479 · ‎03-16-2016

Hi Kunwar, could you please tell me who to activate "Retail Consignment Processing" individually without activating business function EA-RET on a manufacturing system (ECC 6.0)? Thank you, best regards Uwe