SAP Retail Execution

For many years now, we have been observing oil and gas (O&G) companies transforming into energy companies. This can be observed with changes in company names like Statoil to Equinor, or in news announcements such as, “Total is now the second... Read More »

After 20 years of manufacturing experience when I joined Retail and oil & Gas, it felt like I walked into a whole new world. First few weeks were brutal trying to learn the company lingo and the industry lingo. The only way I could deal with... Read More »

Description For Company operating in retail industry working without promotions is rather not possible at the moment. Unfortunately with most of the projects I have seen for retail industry, external tools are used to plan and execute promotion... Read More »

Sap IS-Retail has multiple different features comparing to classical ECC solution. One of them is article valuation and multiple variants that offers. In ECC material valuation is cost oriented that means that either procurement price is taken into... Read More »

What is Prepack? As we know in retail, we use articles master with variant and this variant articles are known as sub articles of a generic articles. Prepack article is a structured article with a group of variant articles. There would be predefined... Read More »

Description On every project where sales is done through multiple sales channels there is always same problem – stock allocation. How to protect stock for example per distribution channel or even per Customer within distribution channel. Of course... Read More »

If your SAP system is configured as IS-Retail and you see such a message in purchase order that is one of the reasons you must configure assortments. Theory An assortment determines if a store, a distribution center or a customer can receive... Read More »

Visit planning and scheduling should ideally go according to plan – however, visit cancellations, postponements and other unforeseen circumstances can oftentimes leave your calendar with open gaps which could be spent making important store visits... Read More »

Today I would like to focus on two options for merchandise distribution Recipient-Driven Flow-Through and Merchandise-Driven Flow-Through. General approach to merchandise distribution with emphasis on Cross-Docking was described in another post... Read More »

SAP have contacted to me to say that they keep getting questions from people who have taken the below blog post seriously. The problem is if I post a clarification saying it is just an April Fools joke no-one will take me seriously. So I have... Read More »