Project wrap-up

I have been so lucky to be part of the team of specialists in charge of the implementation of the first project that went live with SAP Retail Execution (ReX) that I’m happy to share something of my experience here in SCN.

I can confirm that on Monday, June 25^th, 2012 the pilot group of Merchandisers working for a major company was outside collecting Sales Orders and Executing Visits with their brand new iPhones and the powerful SAP ReX App version 2.0.5.

Within a month, the rollout will be completed involving 200 sales force colleagues.

At the end of the day, the innovative solution, we as TechedgeGroup, have implemented, includes the following main components:

Devices: Apple iPhones 4GS
Retail Execution App: SAP Retail Execution App (SAP ReX)
Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP) to securely manage the communications between the devices and the back-ends
Mobile Device Management (MEAP): SAP Afaria to secure and setup the devices centrally deploying the configured SAP ReX App
Customer Relation Management (CRM): SAP CRM 7.0 to manage Listings, plan and collect the Visits of each Merchandiser
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): SAP ECC 6.0 to process Sales Orders and manage Customers, Products and Prices that are immediately replicated to SAP CRM via middleware
Enterprise Service Bus: SAP Process Integration 7.3 to directly post, from SAP ECC to the systems of the wholesalers, the Sales Orders collected by the Merchandisers

At the end of the first week, we have been told that everything worked quite well and as a nice colleague said, “we made a real step forward into the new mobile World of SAP and real new technologies”.

Introduction to the SAP Retail Execution App (SAP ReX)

From my personal prospective SAP ReX is nowadays the most powerful and strategic Mobile App offered by SAP and let’s get started with the help of the following links:

SAP Retail Execution in iTunes Store – iTunes downloading page
EchoHub SAP Store – SAP Retail Execution in the SAP Store
Mobile Retail Execution Application Overview – Webinar Details– interesting Webinar
SAP CRM Retail Execution – Functional Overview – interesting presentation
SAP CRM Retail Execution – Functional Overview SAP Mobile Store Apps – an interesting wiki page created by SAP Mentor John Moy that highlights for each SAP App the involved backends, the underline technology and the supported platforms

To be continued…

I’m going to post some more blogs regarding SAP ReX to tell about the new skills and the new ways to run implementation projects.

I’m also going to post a series of episodes to explore different technical aspects of the solution analyzing some interesting and strange behaviors.

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Patrizia Rossi July 3, 2012 at 6:48 am

Congrats Sergio for your first innovative project with Sap ReX 🙂 . I can’t wait for your next blog.

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1. Sergio Ferrari Post authorJuly 3, 2012 at 7:24 am
  thanks for encouraging words Patrizia.
  
  I’m close to publish a couple of next episodes of the series called:
  
  SAP ReX – run anywhere to tell about the new life styles of the project members
  
  SAP ReX – which skills are required to implement SAP Retail Execution to list the most relevant skills
  
  You may want to get the list of episodes looking for the tag rex (http://scn.sap.com/community/mobile/blog/tags#/?tags=rex).
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Luca Grilli July 3, 2012 at 8:00 am

Great Sergio, always over the top.

Hope to see many blogs as this one: mEnterprise is now more powerful. Thx.

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Niki Scaglione July 3, 2012 at 12:10 pm

Well done Sergio and Alessandro as well!

Regards,

Niki

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1. Alessandro Lavazzi July 12, 2012 at 4:12 pm
  
  Thanks Niki! 🙂
  
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Alessandro Spadoni July 3, 2012 at 12:47 pm

Great work Sergio,

thanks for sharing your experience and your knowledge :

SUP is a totally new world for many Sap Consultants / Abapers (also for me)

Waiting for the next blogs 🙂

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