Standard Functions Used in SAP Retail with Articles

Standard Functions Used in SAP Retail with Articles

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

Caution

We recommend that you do not use materials and articles in SAP Retail at the same 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 plan and execute comprehensive tests.

• 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 possible to use the batch stock here to make selections.

• • Retail stock overview (transaction RWBE ) for article selection

It is also possible 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 into consideration.

• 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 created with transaction MC84 .

• • Product cost calculation

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

• • 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 production versions for articles.

• Service Management (SM)

All functions are available.

• Quality Management (QM)

All functions are available.

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 article master.

• 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 integrated into a user-specific article master.