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SAP Online Help 05.09.2003

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Differences Between Articles and Materials.....................................................................5

Standard R/3 Functions Used in SAP Retail with Articles ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ .6

Functions Not Supported in SAP Retail...........................................................................7

R/3 Functions not Tested with Articles in SAP Retail...... ....... ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ... 9




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The requirements placed by retailers on IT solutions in the areas of planning and distribution,in particular, differ from the requirements of i ndustrial companies with thei r production-oriented targets. When you are installing the SAP R/3 component or when you upgrade to a

new release you can configure your system as SAP Retail. You do this by setting the "retailswitch".

Integration

Only after you have configured your SAP R/3 system as an SAP Retail system can you make

use of all the functions in SAP for Retail, SAP’s retail solution. Configuring your system in thisway and using specific Retail functions may restrict your use of other R/3 functions from other

areas. You cannot use all existing functions fully at the same time. The reason for this is thatthe article master for an SAP Retail-configured SAP R/3 system differs from the article master

of a non-SAP Retail-configured SAP R/3 system.

Your SAP Retail system uses either standard terms or Retail terms (for more

information, see Retail Terminology [external document]). However, for the sakeof clarity this part of the documentation uses the term material for master data

records that were created with maintenance transactions in the SAP R/3 system(manufacturing system), and article for master data records that were created

using maintenance transactions from SAP Retail.

PrerequisitesYou should only configure SAP R/3 as SAP Retail if you have a valid SAP Retail license.

If you configure your system as an SAP Retail system, you cannot reverse thesetting later.

Activities

The Installation Guide and the Upgrade Guide for SAP R/3 specify how to configure yoursystem as an SAP Retail system.

You can use the program GETSYSDEF to check how your SAP R/3 system has beenconfigured.

Differences Between Articles and Materials

In the case of the Retail solution, the central object in all logistics processes is the article,whereas in industry i t is the material.

Retail and industry have different needs in terms of the corresponding master data andmaintenance options. For example, to optimally process all its fashion processes, retail needs

variants (such as color and size). Industry, however, uses bills of material for specialrequirements in the area of production planning. Due to the large number of articles in the

retail industry, master data maintenance must also be integrated into processing.

To best support the different processes in retail and industry, SAP R/3 provides different

maintenance transactions for materials and articles. Unlike the material master, the articlemaster contains the following additional points:




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• Specific additional data is integrated, for example, purchasing info records, listings andsales price calculations.

• Several organizational levels, for example, sites and distribution chains, and for genericarticles several articles, can be processed online in one single maintenancetransaction.

In the material master you can process only one material or one plant at a time, but inthe article master the system transfers data from higher levels to the dependent levels,

provided you have not maintained these differently. For example, the system transfersdata from a generic article to all its variants. It also transfers data from reference sites

to individual sites.

Standard R/3 Functions Used in SAP Retail withArticles

The following standard R/3 functions can also be used with articles. However, not all functionssupport retail-specific processing of generic articles (for example, matrix maintenance).

We recommend that you do not use materials and articles in SAP Retail at thesame time. The functions listed here were tested as part of individual customer

projects, using the existing conditions and system settings.

If there are times when you really cannot keep to this recommendation, ensure

that you enlist the help of experienced SAP consultants in your project and planand execute comprehensive tests.

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Materials Management (MM) All functions are available.

In SAP Retail there are two stock overviews for articles and materials.

Standard stock overview (transaction MMBE )

It is also possib le to use the batch stock here to make selections.

Retail stock overview (transaction RWBE ) for article selection

It is also possib le to use merchandise categories here to make selections.

Batch management can generally be used with single articles. However, some Retail

functions (for example, allocation tables, store orders) do not take batches intoconsideration.

• Sales and Distribution (SD)

All functions are available.

• Production Planning (PP)

PP bills of material with individual articles and variants of generic articles.

Product groups

You can assign articles or materials to a product group that you have createdwith transaction MC84.

Product cost calculation

The product cost calculation can also be used as the basis for sales pricecalculations. You can use the special procurement key for the calculation (forexample, for calculation data from another site).




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Material requirements planning (MRP)

You can also use the special procurement key for requirements planning, for

example, for production in another plant.

Planned orders

Conversion of planned orders into production orders

Production order confirmation

Discreet production of single articles and variants of a generic article

Variant configuration with make-to-order production without variants subject to

inventory management

Repetitive manufacturing

Constraint: You must use the standalone transaction C233 to create productionversions for articles.

• Service Management (SM)


• Quality Management (QM)


Constraint: You can only access the maintenance screen for QM check data for articles

using the standalone transaction QA08 . The display is integrated into the arti clemaster.

• Foreign Trade

Intrastat/Extrastat

Preference processing (vendor declaration)

Letter of credit processing for export

Foreign trade forms (T1, T2, export declaration)

• Tax handling for Brazil

Additional tax and categorization fields are needed for goods movements in Brazil.

These fields cannot be maintained in the article master, but can be easily integratedinto a user-speci fic article master.

Functions Not Supported in SAP Retail

SAP Retail supports the special function for handling generic articles in MaterialsManagement and Sales and Distribution only, not in any of the other standard areas.

SAP Retail does not support the following SAP R/3 functions with articles: You can thereforeonly use these functions for materials:

• Variant configuration with inventory-managed variants

You can only use variants of a generic article i n the variant configuration as an item inthe super bil l of material. You cannot use generic articles in bills of material.

• Long-term planning

You cannot maintain specific data for long-term planning for articles.

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