Info collection for OAA developers

Dear SAP Retail / CAR developers and consultants,

here some useful information for you around  “Omnichannel Article Availability and Sourcing (OAA)“:

CHECK for System Setup and Configuration for OAA

An OAA report which checks the System Setup and Configuration for OAA is now available and released for customers via SAP Notes:

• 2806767 – Check of System Setup and Configuration for OAA
• 2809717 – Prerequiste: Check of System Setup and Configuration for OAA

This new report should help customers/partners/consultants/AIS colleagues to check if the CAR system is set up correctly for OAA (e.g. after installation or upgrade) from a technical and business-related perspective.

If the checks are failing you’ll get a dedicated error message how to solve the detected error.

OAA tables in SAP CAR

OAA/NET_NW resp. /OAA/NET_NWS

• • list of eligible sources (DCs, stores, vendors) in a sourcing network
  • via SAP Fiori app “Manage Sourcing Networks”

/OAA/CHANNELS

• • Sales Channel > assign sourcing network to Sales Channel
  • via SAP Fiori app “Manage Sales Channels”

OAA “Sales Channel Mode” vs “OAA Profile Mode”

• ALWAYS use the “Sales Channel Mode”! This mode was introduced with SAP CAR 3.0 and the successor of the OAA profile mode
• The Sales Channel mode offers intuitive FIORI apps in SAP CAR to configure sources, sourcing networks, sales channels and sourcing strategies.
• The “old” OAA profile mode doesn’t provide OAA sourcing configuration by UI, only in customizing tables (which need to be transported from the dev system)

OAA video lectures

• OAA in a Nutshell CARAB 4.0 FPS01 (business overview)
• Managing Sales Channels CARAB 4.0
• Creating a Sourcing Network CARAB 4.0
• Extending Sourcing Framework
• Managing Pick-and-Pack Capacities of Sources CARAB 4.0
• Creating a Sourcing Strategy CARAB 4.0
• OAA Analytics CARAB 4.0 FPS01

OAA Enhancements by SAP CAR release

• In general
  • check the CAR OAA docuWhat’s new in SAP Customer Activity Repository > “select release” > Enhancements in Omnichannel Article Availablity and Sourcing

OAA Enhancements in SAP CAR 3.0 CARAB 2.0 Feature Pack 1

• • Release Notes for OAA in CARAB 2.0 FP1
  • Introduction of  3 Fiori apps to manage Sourcing via “Sales Channel Mode”
  • How-to video for developers: Extending Sourcing Framework

OAA Enhancements in SAP CAR 3.0 CARAB 2.0

• • OAA Application Help
  • Technical information and architecture
    • Architecture and Data Flow
    • XML Schemas for REST API’s in CARAB 2.0 > SAP Note 2369307
    • REST API for ATP Calculation
    • REST API for Sourcing
    • REST API for Temporary Reservations
    • OData Service for Upload of ATP Snapshot
    • OData Service for Upload of Vendor Stock Records
    • Implementing RSI Calculation Via SAP HANA Rules Framework
  • SAP Hybris Commerce: IPR version 2.2 or higher required

OAA Enhancements in SAP CAR 2.0 AB 1.0 FP3

• • OAA Application Help
  • Technical information and architecture
    • Architecture and Data Flow
    • XML Schemas for REST API’s in CARAB 1.0FP3: SAP Note 2354270
    • REST API for ATP Calculation
    • REST API for Sourcing
    • REST API for Temporary Reservations
    • Implementing RSI Calculation Via SAP HANA Rules Framework

OAA integration in SAP (ex Hybris) Commerce

• SAP Commerce on-premise editions : The SAP (Hybris) Commerce, integration package for SAP for Retail (aka IPR) is required in the version that matches with the SAP (Hybris) Commerce release
• SAP Commerce Cloud version 1:
  • aka CCV1 = operated by SAP&Hybris, is no longer offered by SAP (since Oct 2018)
  • in CCV1 the overall Retail integration via the IPR package is not supported nor available by license for CCV1 customers. See here for details
• SAP Commerce Cloud version 2, on MS Azure Cloud
  • strategic SAP Commerce version going forward
  • Retail Omnichannel integration (incl. OAA, OPP) pending – stay tuned (Aug 2019)

OAA integration with 3rd party ecommerce solutions

• See this blog for details

OAA stock tables

• Store stock = Hana view “InventoryVisibilityWithSalesOrderReservedQuantity”
• DC + Vendor stock (same tables are used for both)
  • /OAA/ATP_SNP_HDR (header for article/location/source)
  • /OAA/ATP_SNP_ITM (available stock, time series, time stamp)

OAA Modification Example

• SAP Note 2360000

Release Requirements

• CAR Release Requirements
• SAP Commerce, industry package for SAP for Retail –  version requirements

iDocs

• Replication of the customer order from SAP (ex Hybris) Commerce to the SAP Retail back end via the Asynchronous Order Management:
  • IDoc Typ SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2: https://wiki.hybris.com/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=release5&title=SAP+Asynchronous+Order+Management
• Replication of DC/Store’s from CAR to SAP Hybris Commerce
  • (IDoc Typ W_OAA_SITES:
  • http://help.sap.com/saphelp_car300/helpdata/en/65/2aa0ebece04fc4a712d3454acd5ec1/content.htm
• Replication of the Rough Stock Indicator results and the aggregated stock quantity from SAP CAR to SAP (Hybris) Commerce
  • IDoc Typ OAA_RSI_IDOCTYPE: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_car300/helpdata/en/03/79f75e67454047a25b6a00eca9fa81/content.htm
  • From SAP CAR AB 2.0 Feature Pack 2 the RSI idoc additionally contains the availability date of an article if its traffic light is not green, see RSI.

Fig.1: Omnichannel Article Availability – Communication and integration technology the SAP Retail back end, SAP CAR and SAP (ex Hybris) Commerce (on-prem editions only)

OSS Components for OAA

• CEC-COM-BSC-OAA – SAP Hybris Commerce parts
• CA-RT-CAR-OAA – SAP CAR parts
• LO-MD-OAA – SAP ERP and S/4 based OAA parts
• LO-MD-PL – SAP ERP and S/4 based Plant Master parts

Find more information about SAP Retail Omnichannel Commerce in the Customer Wiki.

Best regards,
Ingo

Dr. Ingo Woesner
Director, Outbound Product Management, SAP C/4HANA Suite
SAP SE
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