Retails Sales Process mapping problem in SAP

[Former Member]

Hi All

We are facing a peculiar problem in mapping retail sales,
will explain the sales business processes in a nutshell.

• Corporate sales
• Exports Sales
• Retail Sales

Corporate and exports we are mapping with regular sales
order, delivery, and invoice.

But when it comes to retail business, we can map through cash sales, but here to do sales order, delivery and PGI for the respective batches along with the invoice document would be a tough task, as the retail persons are not qualified enough to understand the SAP process.

In their existing local system, only one screen is available and entering the invoice directly and generating the printout directly and the
stock is coming down subsequently.

Keeping the above scenario in our mind, can we create only sales order, the movement we save SAP should bring down the stock and either through delivery document or through direct step and the respective accounting entry has to happen for PGI, at the same time with or without invoice we should
be able to hit the finance/accounts to post this sales transaction.

I understand that this is not possible in standard SAP, but could you please suggest how to automate this, and apart from this if you have any better solution as well.

Thanks&Regards

  A.Anil

[Lakshmipathi · Accepted solution]

Yes you can automate this process.  For that, first you need to freeze what should be the PGI quantity for a material.  Accordingly, first maintain the "Min.dely qty" in all material masters so that you can automate delivery and PGI process without any manual intervention.  Via standard program WS_MONITOR_OUTB_DEL_GDSI , decide in what frequency, system should do auto PGI.  Accordingly system will do PGI in the set frequency.  Next when comes to billing, schedule background job via VF04 or VF06.

G. Lakshmipathi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I can't imagine all this will work without a true POS or atleast some enhanced functionality with an interface to SAP .  Just for one thing ... consider the performance!!

Regards

Waza

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Lakshmipathi

Thank you so much for your help.

@All: FYI, we do not have POS in our current scope due to some technical reasons, would consider in phase - 2 of our project.

Thanks & regards

A.Anil

[eduardo_hinojosa]

Hi

Usually it should be done with a IS-Retail, but you'd need to mantain articles, a type of plants called POS or shops and so on. You could create an invoice type FP using an IDOC called WPUUMS where you can create the materials movement (usually mov type 251/252).

My suggestion. If you have a POS system (hardware with software for doing the check out) and you have files you can create a customer report where using BAPI you can do all processes. For instance, doing the movements 251 or a copy of 251. After, create a flow SO to invoice (without delivery, so, do the proper settings in VOV8, VOFA and copy rules) as a end day duty with all information. Create a SO with the summarized data and after do the invoice for the total amount of sales.

It's an idea.

I hope this helps you

Regards

Eduardo