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Merchandising Retail Planning

The document outlines various retail solutions focusing on merchandising, supply chain, omnichannel operations, and customer experience. It details features, benefits, and overviews of specific solutions such as SAP Assortment Planning, SAP Order and Delivery Scheduling, and SAP Predictive Replenishment. The aim is to enhance efficiency, optimize inventory, and improve customer satisfaction across retail operations.

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Merchandising Retail Planning

The document outlines various retail solutions focusing on merchandising, supply chain, omnichannel operations, and customer experience. It details features, benefits, and overviews of specific solutions such as SAP Assortment Planning, SAP Order and Delivery Scheduling, and SAP Predictive Replenishment. The aim is to enhance efficiency, optimize inventory, and improve customer satisfaction across retail operations.

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Table of Contents

Explore Retail Solutions:............................................................................................................... 4


1- Merchandising.......................................................................................................................4
a) Merchandising Management:...........................................................................................4
Overview:.........................................................................................................................4
Benefits:........................................................................................................................... 5
Key Features:................................................................................................................ 6
b) Predictive planning............................................................................................................6
Overview.......................................................................................................................... 6
Benefits:........................................................................................................................... 7
Key Features:................................................................................................................ 8
c) Fashion and vertical business..........................................................................................10
Overview:.......................................................................................................................10
Benefits...........................................................................................................................11
Key Features................................................................................................................12
d) Real-time transactions data............................................................................................15
Overview........................................................................................................................ 15
Benefits...........................................................................................................................17
Key Features................................................................................................................18
2- Supply Chain........................................................................................................................20
a) SAP Order and delivery scheduling.................................................................................20
Overview........................................................................................................................ 20
Benefits and Features............................................................................................21
b) Risk-resilient logistics......................................................................................................21
Overview........................................................................................................................ 21
Benefits...........................................................................................................................22
Key Features................................................................................................................22
c) Forecast demand and automate replenishment............................................................24
Overview........................................................................................................................ 24
Benefits...........................................................................................................................24
Key Features................................................................................................................25
d) High-volume warehouse operation management..........................................................25
Overview........................................................................................................................ 25
Benefits...........................................................................................................................26
3- Omnichannel Operations....................................................................................................26
a) Consistent promotional pricing................................................................26
Overview........................................................................................................................ 26
Benefits...........................................................................................................................27
Key Features................................................................................................................27
b) Sourcing and availability management / Retail Order....................................................28
Overview........................................................................................................................ 28
Benefits...........................................................................................................................29
Key Features................................................................................................................29
c) Retail order orchestration...............................................................................................31
d) Customer data management...........................................................................................31
Overview........................................................................................................................ 31
Key Features................................................................................................................31
4- Customer Experience.......................................................................................................... 32
a) Intelligent selling............................................................................................................. 32
SAP Commerce Cloud............................................................................................. 32
Overview........................................................................................................................ 32
Benefits...........................................................................................................................32
Key Features................................................................................................................33
b) AI-enhanced customer experiences................................................................................33
c) Personalized real-time engagements..............................................................................34
d) Circular commerce...........................................................................................................34
SAP Merchandise Planning Solutions for Retailers:....................................................................35
1- SAP Assortment Planning for Retail................................................................................35
2- SAP Allocation Management.............................................................................................. 36
1- Initial Allocation......................................................................................................36
2- In-season Fill- in..................................................................................................... 36
3- In-Season Manual Push........................................................................................36
4- Promotional Push...................................................................................................36
5- Promotional Buy.....................................................................................................36
3- SAP S/4 HANA for Retail......................................................................................................37
4- SAP Customer Activity Repository (CAR)........................................................................37
Explore Retail Solutions:
 Merchandising
 Supply Chain
 Omnichannel Operations
 Customer Experience

1- Merchandising
a) Merchandising Management:
Connect retail processes across the value chain to increase efficiency and
improve shopper value.

Overview:
This product is deployed in the cloud and is available as software as a service
(SaaS), so you can access your software from any Web browser.

Increase efficiency and optimize experiences along the customer


journey
Deliver exceptional customer experiences based on real-time customer and
sales information by connecting and transforming retail processes across the
entire value chain.

To transform your business processes with the SAP S/4HANA Retail solution
for merchandise management.

 On-premise, cloud, or hybrid deployment

 Embedded AI, analytics, and intelligent process automation

 In-memory database and simplified data model

 Consumer-grade UX

Benefits:
 Increase business efficiency and agility
 Empower employees with real time information
 Deliver first-class shopping experiences
Key Features:
In-store operations
 Stay on top of your business with store manager dashboards and real-
time business insights

 Offer reliable omnichannel store fulfillment with click-and-collect


options

 Drive new levels of customer service with real-time inventory, product


look ups, and RFID-enabled stock movements

Customer-centric merchandise management


 Automate assortment management using self-healing reports

 Connect to your suppliers effectively with global data synchronization

 Execute retail offers with consistent omnichannel price and promotion


information

Retail supply chain management


 Manage scarce stock with stock segmentation and supply assignment

 Process empties stock using full product bill of materials

 Run a verticalized retail business with manufacturing, wholesale


distribution, and store retailing on one platform

b) Predictive planning
Unify your view of customer purchase history and demand to improve
omnichannel order management and power your planning applications.

Overview
Orchestrate your omnichannel shopping experience

Gain a unified view of customer activity across channels to improve


omnichannel order management and power your planning applications.

Gain real-time inventory visibility based on a 360-degree view of customer


purchase history and demand across multiple channels using SAP Customer
Activity Repository applications bundle, which provides a powerful
forecasting engine.
 On-premise or cloud deployment

 Demand forecasting that helps optimize shopper experiences

 Customer insights to personalize marketing

 Real-time inventory visibility and on-shelf availability

Benefits:
Increase revenue

 Gain actionable business insight on inventory across multiple


fulfillment locations, as well as a view of customer transactional history
and demand across channels.

Improve customer service

 Enable smooth omnichannel commerce to provide accurate inventory


and price information, as well as relevant personalized offers at
multiple customer touch points.

Reduce inventory and write-offs


 Reduce inventory, markdowns, and waste with consistent planning that
spans customer-centric assortments to intelligent allocation and
product replenishment.
Key Features:

Multichannel sales repository

 Collect data from sales channels spread across multiple siloed


applications in diverse formats
 Audit and manage sales transactions coming from point-of-sale
systems
 Gain real-time insight into sales performance, revenue, and gross
margin across channels

Replenishment planning
 Reduce waste with cost-optimal ordering, including prediction of stock
spoilage

 Respond to changes in demand with intraday forecasting and


replenishment

 Simulate and review your order plans and obtain insights on associated
KPIs

Assortment planning

 Support flexible process- and information-driven planning across retail


formats – tightly integrated with merchandise planning budgets
 Rank products by weighting their ranking against chosen KPIs and
business roles to consider real-world requirements and limitations

 Integrate space for assortment and planogram optimization

Allocation management

 Trigger initial allocation of seasonal products based on actual and


planned availability, latest demand forecast, target settings, and
business KPIs

 Enable automated in-season replenishment

 Allocate promotional merchandise based on promotional forecast, store


inventory, and capacity

Promotion management and omnichannel pricing

 Design promotions and offers in line with customer preferences and


financial objectives

 Create what-if simulations to predict financial performance and


leverage vendor funding to maximize margins from trade funds

 Enable consistent calculation of consumer prices and promotional


offers for each basket at any touch point
c)Fashion and vertical business
Use a single solution with built-in style-color-size logic to manage your
fashion business, from manufacturing to wholesale and retail.

Overview:
Run a profitable fashion and vertical business in real time

Benefit from a single platform that supports every aspect of your business –
from manufacturing to wholesale and retail channels.
Benefits
Deliver more styles faster

 Improve supplier collaboration and drive greater personalization with


better visibility across production and sales processes and along the
entire supply chain.

Increase revenue and margin

 Serve your best-performing customers and channels by prioritizing the


most profitable demand, maximizing the revenue opportunity, and
protecting the brand.

Optimize inventory and cost

 Take advantage of inventory visibility across channels to maximize


product availability, avoid overstocking, and reduce markdowns and
unsold goods.
Key Features
Sophisticated seasons management

 Assign multiple seasons, collections, and themes to products

 Manage all processes, purchasing, sales, and production by season,


collection, and theme

 Manage order, delivery, and sales windows to apply seasons accurately


across markets and channels

Flexible purchasing commitments

 React to change flexibly by aggregating buying commitments and


postponing style, color, and size decisions

 Postpone decisions about the final ship-to location as long as possible

 Reassign existing purchase orders in direct-ship processes when a


sales order is reduced or cancelled
Intelligent matching of demand and supply

 Optimize supply assignments to open requirements during supply


shortages

 Analyze mismatches at the detail and aggregated levels and handle


critical situations intelligently

 Choose a variety of assignment strategies and monitor order fulfillment


and delivery performance.
Supply protection

 Reserve quantities of supply without labelling or physically separating


products in warehouse stock

 Avoid allocating stock with a “first come, first served” approach to


minimize the risk of supply leftovers

 Use different protection scenarios – from the simplest to the most


sophisticated

Demand and supply segmentation

 Categorize demand and supply based on additional product


characteristics, such as country of origin or quality, on top of style,
color, and size

 Help ensure demand is met with the right supply characteristics by


determining the best-possible coverage strategy

Integrated manufacturing

 Manage the production cycle from a single processing window to fixed


components assignment

 Match open production orders with available components to meet


delivery dates during supply shortages

 Handle subcontracting processes and integrate garment manufacturing


with textile manufacturing processes
d) Real-time transactions data
Overview
Gain better insights into omnichannel product sales and align inventory
levels to customer demand with reliable, accurate sales and inventory
information.

Optimize retail operations to better meet customer needs

By providing real-time insights into store product availability and helping


ensure the completeness and accuracy of sales transactions, the SAP
Omnichannel Sales Transfer and Audit solution can help you increase
customer satisfaction.

 Cloud deployment

 Embedded dashboards to monitor and optimize your sales auditing


process

 Automated correction process based on historical error modeling

 Centralized repository of validated sales data


Benefits:
Improve customer satisfaction

 Keep customers happy by using a data foundation that can help you
provide automated, customer-specific merchandise offerings.

Reduce errors and regulatory inconsistencies

 Provide error-solving recommendations based on historical patterns to


help users quickly solve errors and ensure data consistency and
compliance.

Enhance employee productivity

 Automate processes to reduce manual intervention and increase


operational efficiencies, so employees can focus more on value-adding
tasks.
Key Features
Optimized sales data validation process

 Automate checks that are configurable and executed by your personal


rule set
 Use error push notifications to take action when manual intervention is
needed
 Receive error-solving recommendations based on historical patterns

Centralized repository for sales data

 Store large volumes of sales data for several years on a granular level
with easy and fast access

 Track and maximize key performance indicators such as error


turnaround rates

 Gain real-time insights into store sales and inventory information

Foundation for retail operations processes

 Take advantage of a cloud-native integration point for sales channels


 Help ensure data security and compliance across the sales data
transfer process
 Simplify integration with open APIs and pre-integration to SAP S/4HANA
2- Supply Chain
a) SAP Order and delivery scheduling
Overview
SAP Order and Delivery Scheduling empowers retail supply chain planners to
build order and delivery schedules more efficiently, with greater flexibility,
better outcomes and simpler integration with adjacent systems.

Definition of order and delivery patterns

Efficiently define order and delivery patterns with the flexibility to manage
exceptions such as for holidays and assign them to the supply network

Scheduling group management

Automatically generate product scheduling groups and supply networks with


real-time update capabilities.

Generate order and delivery schedules

Generate order and delivery schedules ready to be reviewed and sent to


adjacent supply chain planning and fulfillment systems such as SAP
S/4HANA.
Benefits and Features
Improve on-time delivery performance

 Improve on-time delivery performance thanks to optimized order and


delivery schedules.

Reduce days in inventory and inventory carrying costs

 Reduce days in inventory and inventory carrying costs by allowing


more on-time orders and deliveries, thus reducing the required
inventory levels.

Improve supply chain FTE productivity

 Improve supply chain FTE productivity by automating manual order


and delivery scheduling activities.

b) Risk-resilient logistics
Overview
Build and maintain a sustainable, risk-resilient retail or fashion supply chain
with integrated transportation management.
SAP Transportation Management

The SAP Transportation Management application integrates fleet and logistics


management throughout your network, helping you to reduce complexity,
increase efficiency, and improve agility for a more sustainable, risk-resilient
supply chain.
Benefits
Increase business productivity

 Automate processes and drive digital collaboration within


your ecosystem to reduce empty space, avoid redundancies, and meet
your sustainability goals.

Work smarter

 Speed decision-making, minimize the risks of disruptions, and improve


on-time delivery rates with comprehensive views into your logistics
processes.

Optimize resource utilization

 Improve shipping process transparency, speed fulfillment, mitigate


risks, and keep your customers happy by optimizing resource
utilization.

Key Features
Strategic freight management

 Streamlined quote-to-contract processes

 Automated rate determination


Order management

 Real-time response

 Aligned sales and orders

 Integrated intelligence

Transportation planning

 Optimized goods movement

 Efficient management of delivery activities

 Clear visibility
c)Forecast demand and automate replenishment
Overview
Optimize inventory and costs by forecasting demand and automating the
calculation and ordering of products with AI.

SAP Predictive Replenishment

Maintain the balance between missed revenue potential and excess


inventory

SAP Predictive Replenishment leverages demand forecast values and AI for


automated calculation and ordering of products. It enables retailers to both
plan and optimize their inventory and costs with a high level of efficiency and
automation.

Benefits
Reduce revenue loss due to stock-outs

 Bring down revenue loss by increasing service levels and product


availability along with high levels of supply chain transparency.
Reduce inventory carrying costs

 Lower your inventory carrying costs by optimizing the inventory levels


with improved demand calculation and cost-optimized order proposals.

Increase operational productivity

 Improve productivity through automated replenishment planning


processes and highly intuitive manual intervention possibilities.

Key Features
Flexible integration possibilities

 Benefit from a modular and open cloud architecture and integration


with SAP solutions such as SAP S/4HANA Retail, SAP Order and Delivery
Scheduling, and SAP Customer Activity Repository.

Automated replenishment with order optimization

 Automate the calculation of order proposals considering business


objectives and constraints such as range of coverage or service levels.

Ease of use with modern and intuitive workbenches

 Optimized user experience with flexible business configurations and


comprehensive order proposal review options.

d) High-volume warehouse operation


management
Overview
Keep pace with demand, minimize your costs, and maintain sustainable, risk-
resilient warehouse operations.

What is SAP EWM

A modern warehouse must respond quickly to changing business conditions.


With our modern, flexible warehouse management system (WMS), you can
manage a high volume of goods and run sustainable, risk-resilient operations
with digitalized warehouse processes in the cloud.

With SAP EWM, you can manage high-volume warehouse operations and
integrate complex supply chain logistics with your warehouse and
distribution processes, delivering high levels of visibility and control.
 Comprehensive warehouse solution

 Fully integrated quality, production, and track-and-trace processes

 Direct control of warehouse automation equipment

 Intelligent slotting rules to optimize space utilization

Benefits
Reduce inventory and labor cost

 Speed fulfillment by optimizing resources and heading off problems


before they impact operations.

Increase process and stock transparency

 Spot risks, avoid disruptions, and see deep into operations with stock,
resource, and process transparency.

Improve space utilization

 Identify available space and use it to drive costs down, speed


fulfillment, and optimize inventory.

3- Omnichannel Operations
a) Consistent promotional pricing
Overview
Apply uniform calculation logic and data to provide consistent promotional
pricing across multiple sales channels.

SAP Omnichannel Promotion Pricing is a cloud-based solution that ensures


consistent promotional pricing across sales channels to foster brand loyalty
and drive revenue growth.

Achieve consistent promotional pricing across your sales and engagement


channels with a cloud-based solution that supports omnichannel customer
experiences.

 Support for uploading price and promotion information from any source

 Centralized calculation of promotion pricing for all sales channels

 Centralized promotions management with a versatile user interface


 Coupon management during promotion planning and sales processes
Benefits
Deliver consistent promotional pricing

 Provide a single source of truth for promotional prices combined with a


consistent promotional price calculation logic across sales channels for
B2B and B2C, including coupon management.

Grow brand loyalty

 Give your customers a reason to come back by offering a buying


experience with reliable promotional pricing data and effective coupon
management across all sales channels.

Increase revenue

 Provide an omnichannel experience that leaves customers feeling


satisfied with every interaction and purchase and earns their loyalty for
the long term.

Key Features
Uploading of price and promotion data

 Use the data upload service to upload regular sales prices and
promotional rules and use this data as a basis for the calculation of
promotional prices.

Management of uploaded data

 Read sales prices and promotional rules and check uploaded data with
the data access service, and delete obsolete sales prices and
promotional rules through the administration service.

Omnichannel promotion rules

 Maintain promotion rules directly in a cloud repository using a


promotion maintenance UI.

Configuration of behavior parameters

 Establish and configure parameters to influence the behavior of the


calculation service.

Sales price calculation

 Apply promotional rules to calculate effective sales prices in the


customer context across web, point of sale, and sales order channels.
Coupon management service

 Manage the creation, maintenance, reservation, and redemption of


coupons in the promotion planning and sales processes.

b) Sourcing and availability management /


Retail Order
Maintain product availability while optimizing distributed order management
plans and syncing inventory with your shoppers' needs.

Achieve omnichannel order orchestration

Overview
Connect your sales channels to each of your fulfillment systems and
locations to benefit from streamlined integration, simplified access, and
additional fulfillment models.

Create one consistent order across your business. SAP Order Management
foundation provides a single source of truth combined with better
orchestration across systems. Reduce costs, improve agility, and increase
customer satisfaction.

 Cloud deployment

 Common cloud-native integration points for sales channels

 Order routing to different fulfillment systems, channels, and nodes

 Centralized order process monitoring and analytics


Benefits
Increase revenue and customer satisfaction

 Exceed customer expectations with agile omnichannel execution that


enables instant and reliable delivery.

Reduce inventory carrying cost

 Leverage inventory efficiently with embedded logic that automatically


matches demand with supply.

Achieve greater employee productivity

 Take advantage of automation to reduce manual intervention and


increase operational efficiencies.

Key Features
Unified and consistent order orchestration

 Create one consistent order across your omnichannel enterprise


 Route orders to different fulfillment systems, channels, and nodes
 View fulfillment updates and events

Centralized order process monitoring and analytics


 Provide insight into the order process by using an analytics engine

 Track and maximize key performance indicators, such as order


fulfillment rates

 Inform and take action by identifying emerging trends in order


management

Foundation for omnichannel order processes

 Take advantage of a cloud-native integration point for sales channels

 Add new channels and explore new markets and business models

 Use pre-integration with the SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP S/4HANA, and
SAP Subscription Billing solutions, and open APIs

c)Retail order orchestration


Connect your sales channels to each of your fulfillment systems, streamlining
omnichannel order execution.
d) Customer data management
Overview
Bridge front-end customer data and back-end customer data to better
understand customers and deliver trusted, personalized engagements at any
step of the journey.

Visualize customer profiles, their connected relationships, and their


associated accounts

Benefit from a native connection with ERP for supply chain optimization and
product innovation

Uncover real-time customer insights with AI learning models supercharged


for industry

Show respect for customer data privacy by maintaining the purpose of


customer data during every engagement

Access real-time customer insights that enhance audience segmentation,


uncover trends, and fuel personalized experiences

Key Features
Gain a deep understanding of your customers

 Unify customer profiles and associate relationships at the individual or


account level
 Integrate ERP, supply chain management, and other cloud solutions by
using a common data model
 Enrich customer insights and operational intelligence with generative
AI

Get the most value from customer data

 Combine your customers’ identity and purpose data to truly


understand and respect how they want to engage

 Orchestrate customer data with engagement systems based on data


privacy permissions

 Activate permission-based profile data shared directly by customers


 Grow your business through focused engagement

 Define unique profile views for B2B and B2C use cases at enterprise
scale

 Calculate attributes for segmentation, audience management, and


real-time decision-making on an ongoing basis

 Design and deploy integrations that push customer or account data to


the right engagement systems based on purpose

4- Customer Experience
a) Intelligent selling
Increase average order value with machine learning and AI that provides
real-time personalization and merchandising.

SAP Commerce Cloud


Overview
Commerce Cloud is an e-commerce platform that unifies B2B, B2C, and
B2B2C commerce experiences on one platform to drive profitable growth.

Unite processes across the customer journey with a feature-rich and scalable
digital commerce solution you can trust that delivers:

 Frictionless and consistent customer experiences

 AI capabilities to make teams more productive and personalize


interactions

 A wide ecosystem of partner solutions for flexible composability

Benefits
Connected commerce business processes

 Unify supply chain and demand signals, end-to-end processes, and


commerce experiences.

Enhanced business performance

 Deepen customer insights to empower commerce teams and improve


performance.

Extensible digital innovation


 Compose your ideal commerce solution with the flexibility to rapidly
extend capabilities using vetted innovation partners.

Key Features
Core commerce

 Integrate best-of-breed tools for parts of your stack (such as headless


CMS, advanced search, custom front end), while keeping other parts
(such as inventory, pricing) on the core platform. Harness the
embedded flexibility without the overhead of a full composable build.

Pricing, promotions, and payments

 Choose payment approaches and partners that are right for you while
surfacing the right cross-selling and up-selling offers to each customer.

Composable storefront

 Build engaging online shopping experiences with modular,


interchangeable components. Choose the solutions for each part of
your digital storefront that are right for your customers and brand.

Search and discovery capabilities

 Deliver highly relevant and personalized search results that quickly


connect the customer with the products and services that fit their
needs.

Product catalog management

 Create a comprehensive view of your product data to drive consistent


omnichannel experiences. Organize products so customers can
discover, research, and buy them easily.

Commerce AI

 Make teams more effective and shopping experiences more


personalized with AI infused throughout the commerce experience.

b) AI-enhanced customer experiences


Combine business data with proprietary AI models and natural language
processing to deliver exceptional customer experiences.
c)Personalized real-time engagements
Build brand loyalty using AI-powered insights to better understand customers
and deliver relevant, personalized engagements.

d) Circular commerce
Receive, manage, and resell pre-owned inventory to generate revenue from
existing products while aligning with customers’ sustainability values.
SAP Merchandise Planning Solutions for
Retailers:
It provides retailers with a powerful integrated approach to forecasting,
assortment planning, allocation and replenishment ensuring that retailers
can respond swiftly to market trends while maintaining optimal stock levels.

It maximizes the profitability and streamlines inventory management in a


market division by changing consumer preferences. Adding supply chain
complexities and market fluctuation, retailers require data driven solutions
that will enable them to make informed decisions. There are four
merchandising planning solutions which are:

 SAP Assortment Planning for Retail


 SAP Allocation Management
 SAP S/4 HANA for Retail
 SAP Customer Activity Repository (CAR)

1-SAP Assortment Planning for Retail


The ability to tailor assortments by store, channel, or region ensures that the
right products reach the right consumers at the right time. It manages the
product by analyzing the purchasing behavior, demographic data, regional
trends and store specific demands. It improves sales but also strengthen
brand loyalty and customer engagement.
2- SAP Allocation Management
It automates allocation processes, ensuring that inventory is distributed to
stores or fulfillment centers based on real-time demand signals. By
minimizing stock imbalances and improving inventory turnover, retailers can
reduce carrying costs while ensuring product availability where it is needed
most.

A business process represents an allocation process in SAP allocation


management. Some reference business scenarios are:

1- Initial Allocation
 Supports allocators in preseasonal allocation planning and processing
of products due for initial allocation.

 Usually based on a planned presentation date for the products in the


stores and on planned store inventory at season start.

2- In-season Fill- in
Handles the automatic replenishment of products after the first sales in
stores:
 Helps the allocator with the refilling of products that have been sold.

 The system identifies the store demand based on a sophisticated


statistical forecast for a demand period, or it can fill-up to defined
target or initial allocation quantities.

3- In-Season Manual Push


Allows allocators to trigger an extra push during the relevant season:

 For example, a defined quantity can be allocated over a set of stores


based on a key performance indicator that is used to calculate the
store share.

 The in-season manual push can be used in addition to automated in-


season fill-in.

4- Promotional Push
Covers the allocation of products that are available for the duration of a
specific offer.

5- Promotional Buy
Covers the purchasing of promotional products to be delivered to distribution
centers for subsequent allocation to stores as well as purchasing from
suppliers for direct delivery to stores.

For all business scenarios, the system handles constrained availability


situations and the size breakdown automatically. For managing very limited
product availability in the distribution center, a specific cross-product
allocation logic is available for initial allocation.

The promotional business scenarios also provide logistical optimization for


handling structured products: mixed displays and prepacks.

3- SAP S/4 HANA for Retail


A key advantage of SAP merchandise planning solutions is their ability to
integrate with SAP S/4HANA for Retail, as well as other existing retail
systems, including point-of-sale (POS) and eCommerce platforms. This
seamless integration enables retailers to unify data across all channels,
creating a holistic view of inventory, sales performance, demand, and
consumer trends. With a centralized data foundation, retailers can make
strategic decisions that drive profitability while improving operational
efficiency.

4-SAP Customer Activity Repository (CAR)


SAP also supports omnichannel retailing by enabling retailers to synchronize
inventory and demand planning across brick-and-mortar stores, online
marketplaces, and direct-to-consumer channels. SAP Customer Activity
Repository (CAR) provides real-time visibility into consumer transactions and
inventory, allowing retailers to optimize inventory allocation across all sales
channels. As consumer shopping habits evolve, retailers must ensure a
consistent and optimized experience across all touchpoints. SAP CAR
provides the agility needed to manage inventory fluidly and optimize order
management, enhancing the overall customer experience.

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