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:
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 Enhancements by SAP CAR release
OAA Enhancements in SAP CAR 3.0 CARAB 2.0 Feature Pack 1
OAA Enhancements in SAP CAR 3.0 CARAB 2.0
OAA Enhancements in SAP CAR 2.0 AB 1.0 FP3
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
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
Release Requirements
iDocs
- Replication of the customer order from SAP (ex Hybris) Commerce to the SAP Retail back end via the Asynchronous Order Management:
- Replication of DC/Store's from CAR to SAP Hybris Commerce
- Replication of the Rough Stock Indicator results and the aggregated stock quantity from SAP CAR to SAP (Hybris) Commerce
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
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