Category Archives: IS-Retail

IS-Retail : TCODES

R11	Merchandise Related Master Data
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
MM41	Create Article
MM42	Chang Article
MM43	Display Article
WSL11	Evaluation of listing condition
WSO7	Display Assortment Module Assignment to Assortment
MASS_MARC	Logistic/replenishment Mass Maintenance
REFSITE	Reference Sites Mangement
WSL1	Listing conditions
MR21	Price Change
MB1C	Enter Other Goods Receipts
MB1B	Enter Transfer Posting
MB03	Display Transfer Posting
RWBE	Stock Overview

R12	Retail Pricing
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
VKP5	Create Price Calculation
WPMA	Direct Request For POS Outbound
WMB1	Create Price Entry
WKK1	Create Market-basket Price Calculation
SPRO	Assign Price Point Group to Org. Level/Merchandise Category
WVA3	Display VKP Calcultion Sur
WVA7	Display VKP Calcultion Sur
WEV3	Display Ret. Markup SP Ca
MEKE	Conditions By Vendor
ME21N	Create Purchase Order
V-61	Create Customer Discount Condition
V-64	Display Customer Discount
VK13	Display Condition Records
V/LD	Execute Pricing Report
VA01	Create Sales Order
MEI4	Create Automatic Document worklist
BD22	Delete Change Pointers
WVN0	Generate Pricing Worklist
WVN1	Release Worklist

R13	Assortment Management
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
WSOA3	Assortment Display
WSOA1	Assortment Create
WSOA2	Assortment Change
WSOA6	Assortment Assignment Tool
REFSITE	Reference Sites Mangement
WSL5	Modules In Assortment
MM41	Create Article
MM42	Chang Article
WSL1	Listing conditions
WSP4	Create Individual Listing Material / Assortment
WSO1	Assortment Module Create
WSO5	Maintain Assortment Module assignment to Assortment
SE38	ABAP Editor
WLWB	Space Management: Layout Workbench
WPLG	Display Article In Layout Module
WLCN	Delete All Listing Conditions From Layout Module
WSOA1	Assortment Create
WSK1	Assortment Copy
WSPL	Display / edit article master segments that cannot be generted
WSL0	Merchandise Categories – Article Assortments Consistency Check
WSP6	Delete Individual Listing Material/Assortment
WSM8	Reorganize Listing Conditions By Merchandise Category
WSM4A	Automatic Relisting Via Change to Assortment Master Data
WSL11	Evaluation of listing condition
WB02	Site Change
MB1C	Enter Other Goods Receipts
WSE4	Article Discontinuation( Article / Site Discontinuation)
WSM9	Deletion of Obselete Listing Conditions
SE16	Data Browser

R21	Procurement of Replenishable Merchandise
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
MM42	Chang Article
MP30	Execute Forecast: Initial
MP33	Forecast Reprocessing
MD21	Display Planning File Entries
MD03	Requirements Planning Single-Item, Single-Level
MD05	RP List
MD04	Stock/Requirements List
MB01	Enter Other Goods Receipts
ME01	Maintain Source List
ME51	Create Purchase Requisition
ME52	Change Purchase Requisition
ME59	Automatic Creation of Purchase Orders from Requisitions
ME21N	Create Purchase Order
MIGO	Goods Receipt for Purchase Order
ME13	Display Info Record
ME31K	Create Contract
ME33K	Display Contract
RWBE	Stock Overview
MB1C	Enter Other Goods Receipts
WWP1	Planning Workbench
WWP3	Planning Workbench
SPRO	Maintain Rounding Profile
WB02	Site Change
MK02	Change Vendor
MD04	Display Stock/Requirements Situation
WLB1	Determining Requirements for Investment Buying
WLB6	ROI-Based PO Proposal for Purchase Price Changes
WLB2	Investment Buying Analysis
WLB13	Automatic Load Building
WLB4	Results List for Automatic Load Building Run
WLB5	Combine a Number of POs to Create a Collective Purchase Order
ME2L	Purchasing Documents per Vendor
ME23N	Display Purchase Order
ME61	Maintain Vendor Evaluation
ME63	Calculate Scores for Semi-Automatic and Automatic Subcriteria
ME64	Evaluation Comparison
ME65	Ranking List of Vendors
ME6B	Ranking List of Vendor Evaluations Based on Material/Material Group

R22	Procurement of Non-replenishable Merchandise
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
MM41	Create Article
MM42	Chang Article
WSL1	Listing conditions
MR21	Price Change – Overview
ME51	Create Purchase Requisition
ME41	Create RFQ
ME47	Maintain Quotation
MB1C	Other Goods Receipts
ME49	Price Comparison List
ME1E	Quotation Price History
ME48	Display Quotation
ME4M	Purchasing Documents for Article
ME21N	Create Purchase Order
ME28	Release (Approve) Purchasing Documents
MB01	Goods Receipt for Purchase Order
ME2L	Display Purchasing Documents per Vendor
ME23N	Display Purchase Order
SPRO	Maintain Rounding Profile
MD03	Single Item, Single Level
MD04	Stock/Requirements List
RWBE	Stock Overview
WLB13	Automatic Load Building
WLB4	Results List for Automatic Load Building Run
WLB5	Bundle multiple orders logically
ME63	Calculate Scores for Semi-Automatic and Automatic Subcriteria
ME61	Maintain Vendor Evaluation
ME64	Evaluation Comparison
ME65	Ranking List of Vendors
ME6B	Ranking List of Vendor Evaluations Based on Material/Material Group

R23	Fresh Items Procurement
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
WDBI	Assortment List: Initialization and Full Version
WDFR	Perishables Planning
MB1C	Other Goods Receipts
MIGO	Goods Receipt Purchase Order
WF30	Merchandise Distribution: Monitor
VL06O	Outbound Delivery Monitor
MB0A	Goods Receipt-PO Unknown
WDFR	Perishables Planning
VL10B	Fast Display Purchase Orders,
MB01	Post Goods Receipt for PO
RWBE	Stock Overview
ME61	Maintain Vendor Evaluation
ME63	Calculate Scores for Semi-Automatic and Automatic Subcriteria
MEKH	Market Price
ME64	Evaluation Comparison
ME65	Ranking List of Vendors
ME6B	Ranking List of Vendor Evaluations Based on Material/Material Group

R25	Subsequent Settlement
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
MEB3	Display Rebate arrangement
MEU2	Perform Comparison of Business Volumes
MEB4	Create Settlement Document Via Report
MEB3	Create Service Notification-Malfn.
MEB1	Create Agreement
ME21N	Create Purchase Order
MB01	Goods Receipt for Purchase Order
ME81	Analysis of Order Values
MIRO	Enter Invoice
MEB8	Detailed Settlement
SECATT	Generating business volume with CATT
SECATT	Generating business volume with CATT

R26	Invoice Verification
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
ME21N	Create Purchase Order
MB01	Goods Receipt for Purchase Order
ME81	Analysis of Order Values
MIRO	Enter Incoming Invoice
MIR4	Display Invoice Document
MIR7	Park Invoice
MIRA	Enter Invoice for Invoice verification in Background
WC23	Invoice Verification-Background Check
MRRL	Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS)
ME22N	Retroactive Price Changes in Purchase Order
MRNB	Revaluation with Log. Invoice Verification
MIR6	Invoice Overview-Selection Criteria
MRBR	Release Blocked Invoices

R31	Sales Order Management
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
VV32	Change Export Billing Document
VV31	Create Export Billing Document
MB1C	Enter Other Goods Receipts
ME21N	Create Purchase Order
VV32	Change Export Billing Document
RWBE	Stock Overview
VV31	Create Export Billing Document
VA01	Create Sales Order
MM42	Chang Article
VA03	Display Sales Order
RWBE	Stock Overview
VL01N	Enter Other Goods Receipts
LT03	Create Transfer Order for Delivery Note
LT12	Confirm Transfer Order
ME5A	Displaying Purchase Requisition
ME81	Analysis of Order Values
MIRO	Enter Invoice
VA02	Change Sales Order
SECATT	Backorder Processing
WFRE	Distribution of Returns Among Backorders
V_V2	Rescheduling sales and stock transfer documents
VA05	List of Sales Order
V_R2	Rescheduling of sales and stock transfer documents
SECATT	Generating Processing Document(s) via CATT
VF01	Create Billing Document
VF05	List of Billing Documents
VF02	Change Billing Doc
VF04	Maintain Billing Due List
V.21	Log of Collective Run
F-29	Post Customer Down Payment
F-39	Clear Customer Down Payment
VL02N	Outbound Delivery Single Document
VF31	Output from Billing
MB1B	Enter Transfer Posting
VL06O	Outbound Delivery Monitor
VBO3	Displaying the Status of Rebate Agreement
VBO2	Settlement of the Agreement
VBO1	Creating Rebate Agreement
VBOF	Update Billing Documents
LT03	Create Transfer Order for Delivery Note
LT12	Confirm Transfer Order
VA02	Releasing Credit Memo Request for the Partial Rebate Settlement
VL01N	Create Outbound Delivery with Order Reference
VA01	Create Sales Order
VA03	Display Sales Order
VA41	Create Contract
VA43	Display Contract
CV01N	Create Document
MM42	Chang Article
MM43	Display Article
WWM1	Create product catalog
XD02	Customer Display
OVKK	Define Pricing Procedure Determination
SPRO	Maintain Pricing Procedures
WWM2	Change Product Catalog
WAK2	Promotion Change

R32	Instore Customer Relationship Management
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
SICF	HTTP Service Hierarchy Maintenance
ME5A	List Display of Purchase Requisitions
ME21N	Generating a Purchase Order on the Basis of the Purchase Requisition
MIRO	Entering an Incoming Vendor Invoice
VF01	Create Billing Document
VF02	Change Billing Doc

R33	Service – Return Processing
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
WPMI	POS Outbound:Initialization
WPMA	Direct request for POS ountbound
WPER	POS Interface Monitor
WPMU	Creating Change Message
WE02	Displaying Created IDocs in POS Monitor
MM42	Chang Article
VD02	Customer Change
WB60	Creating Site Group
WB66	Maintain Assignment of Sites
WAK1	Create promotion
WE02	Displaying Idoc
WDBI	Initialization and Full Version
WDBM	Manual Selection Assortment List
RWBE	Stock Overview
MB1C	Other Goods Receipts
WPUK	POS Simulation:Selection
WPUF	Cash Removal
FB03	Displaying Accounting Document
FAGLL03	Displaying Clearing Account
WPCA	Execute Settlement
F-06	Post Incoming Payments:Header Data
WVFB	Simulation Store Orders:Header Data Selection
WE02	Displaying Confirmation Order
VL10B	Fast Display Purchase Orders,
VL02N	Outbound Delivery Single Document
WPUW	Goods Movements
MB0A	Returning Goods to Vendor
MB1B	Posting Goods to ‘Unrestricted Use’
ME23N	Displaying Purchase Order
MIRO	Invoice Verification
WR60	Replenishment:Parameter Overview
ME27	Create Purchase Order
WRP1	Replenishment:Planning
VL02N	Change Outbound Delivery
LT12	Confirm Transfer Order
RWBE	Stock Overview
WB02	Site Change
MB1C	Enter Other Goods Receipts
MI01	Create physical inventory document
MI31	Selected Data for Phys. Inventory Docmts W/O Special Stock
MI02	Change physical inventory document
WVFD	Send physical inventory document
WVFI	Simulation:Store Physical Inventory/Sales Price Change
MI03	Display physical inventory document
MI20	List of Inventory Differences
MIDO	Display Physical Inventory Overview
WPUW	Goods Movements
WPUS	Simulation:Inbound Processing
WE19	Test tool for IDoc processing
MM41	Create Article
VBG1	Create Article Grouping
VBK1	Create bonus buy

R34	Store Business online
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
SICF	HTTP Service Hierarchy Maintenance
WB02	Site Change
WSOA6	Assortment Assignment Tool
WSM8	Reorganize Listing Conditions By Merchandise Category
WDBI	Assortment List:Initialization and Full Version
WA01	Create allocation table:Initial
WA08	Follow-On Document Generation Allocation Table
VL02N	Change Outbound Delivery
WAK1	Create Promotion
WAK5	Promo. Subsequent processing
WPUK	POS Simulation
MM42	Change Article
VL10B	Fast display Purchase Orders
VL02N	Change Outbound Delivery
WMBE	Stock Overview
MB1C	Enter Other Goods Receipts
VKP1	Change Price Calculation
VKU6	Revaluation at Retail

R35	Promotion Management
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
RWBE	Stock Overview
MB1C	Enter Other Goods Receipts
WB60	Creating Site Group
WB66	Maintaining Site Group
WA21	Allocation Rule Create
WAK1	Create promotion
WAK5	Promo. Subsequent processing
WAK2	Change Promotion
WA08	Follow-On Document Generation Allocation Table
VL06O	Outbound Delivery Monitor
MB0A	Goods Receipt-PO Unknown
WAK15	Promotions per Site
WAK14	Promotions per article
VA01	Create Sales Order
VL01N	Create Outbound Delivery with Order Reference
VL06P	Outbound Deliveries for Picking
VL06C	Confirming Transfer Order and Post Goods Issue
VL03N	Display Outbound Delivery
VF01	Create Billing Document

R41	Distribution Center Logistics with Lean-WM
Transaction code	transaction text
ME21N	Create Purchase Order
VL31N	Creating Inbound Delivery
WAP2	Create Purchase Order
VL41	Create Rough Goods Receipt
WAP2	Create Purchase Order
MB0A	Goods Receipt – PO Unkown
MB03	Display Article Document
MBRL	Enter Return Delivery
MB02	Change Article Document
MB90	Output from Goods Movements
VL01NO	Create Output Delivery Without Order Reference
LT03	Create Transfer Order for Delivery Note
LT12	Confirm Transfer Order
VL02N	Posting Goods issue
VL01NO	Create Outbound Delivery Without Order Reference
VL35	Create Piching Waves According to Delivery Compare Times
VL06P	Outbound Deliveries for Picking
LT42	Create TOs by Mult.Processing
LT25N	Transfer Order for Each Group
VLSP	Subsequent Outbound-Delivery Split
VL06G	Outbound Deliveries for Goods Issue
MI01	Create physical inventory document
MI31	Selected Data for phys.Inventory Docmts W/o Special Stock
MI04	Enter inventory count
MI20	List of Inventory Differences
MIDO	Display Physical Inventory Overview
VL06O	Outbound Delivery Monitor
VL37	Wave Pick Monitor
VLLG	Rough Workload Estimate

R42	Distribution Center Logistics With Lean Warehouse Management
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
RWBE	IM Stock Overview
LS26	WM Stock Overview
SPRO	Assign Processor to Queues
ME21N	Create Purchase Order
VL31N	Creating Inbound Delivery
WAP2	Create Purchase Order
VL41	Create Rough Goods Receipt
MB0A	Goods Receipt – PO Unknown
LT06	Create Transfer Order for Article Document
LT12	Confirm Transfer order
LRF1	Resource Planning with the RF Monitor
LM00	Mobile Data Entry
LRF1	Monitoring with the RF Monitor
MB03	Display Article Document
MBRL	Enter Return Delivery
MB02	Change Article Document
MB90	Output from Goods Movements
LB12	Process Article Document
LP21	Replenishment for Fixed Bins in WM
LB10	Display Transfer Requirement: List for Storage Type
VL01NO	Create Outbound Delivery Without Order Reference
LT03	Create Transfer Order for Delivery Note
LRF1	Resource Planning in the Monitor for Mobile Data Entry
LRF1	Monitoring from the Mobile Data Entry Monitor
VL02N	Posting Goods Issue
VL35	Create Picking Waves According to Delivery Compare Times
VL06P	Outbound Deliveries for Picking
LT42	Create TOs by Mult. Processing
LT25N	Transfer Orders for Each Group
VLSP	Subsequent Outbound-Delivery Split
VL06G	Outbound Deliveries for Goods Issue
LX16	Carry out Continuous Inventory
LI11N	Enter Inventory Count
LI14	Start Recount
LI20	Clear Differences in WM
LI21	Clearing of differences in Inventory Management
LX18	Statistics for Inventory Differences
LX25	Inventory status
LL01	Warehouse Activity Monitor
VL06O	Outbound Deliveries for Picking
VL37	Wave Pick Monitor
VLLG	Rough Workload Estimate: Total Overview

R43	Merchandise Distribution
Transaction code	transaction text
SU3	Maintain User Profile
ME21N	Create Purchase Order
ME31K	Create contract
WA21	Allocation Rule Create
WA01	Create Allocation Table
WA11	Allocation Table Message Bundling / Notification Creation
WA04	Create Notification
WA08	Create Follow-On Documents
MB01	Goods Receipt for Purchase Order
WF10	Create Purchase Order
MB01	Create Purchase Order
WF30	Adjusting Distribution and Generating an Outbound Delivery
VL06O	Outbound Delivery Monitor
VL02N	Outbound Delivery Single Document
WF50	Adjusting Distribution
WF70	Creating Distribution Order
LT23	Display Distribution Order
WF60	Generating Outbound Delivery
WA01	Create allocation table:Initial

R50	ECR-Compliant Procurement Processes
Transaction code	transaction text
PRICAT	Initial Screen: Price Catalog Maintenance
PRICATCUS1	Change View “Assignment of ILN-Vendor-Purchasing group”: Overview
PRICATCUS2	Change View “Assignment of ILN-merch.catgry-SAP merch.catgry”: Ove
PRICATCUS3	Change View “Assignment of SAP merchandise category – purchasing group”
WE19	Test tool for IDoc processing
WE20	Partner profiles
ME21N	Create Purchase Order
WE02	Idoc list
ME23N	Display Purchase Order
MB0A	Goods Receipt – PO Unknown: Initial Screen
MIR4	Display Invoice Document
WVM2	Transfer of Stock and Sales Data

Assortment and listing

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TCODES – WSM3 (Mass maintenance), WSP4 (Individual listing)

This component allows you to create merchandise assortments and assortment modules and assign articles to them. Articles can be automatically assigned directly to assortments as a result of checking rules during article maintenance or assortment maintenance functions. Alternatively, you can manually assign articles to assortment modules and then in turn assign the modules to assortments. In both cases, the system automatically generates listing conditions for each valid combination of article and assortment.

By assigning assortments to sites you control which assortments — and which articles — a store can purchase or sell. A site cannot purchase or sell an article that is not contained in one of its assortment.

When you create listing conditions, you also specify a listing period. This determines the timeframe during which sites can procure and sell the articles.

Listing conditions

The assignment of the individual articles to assortments is recorded in what are called listing conditions. These listing conditions contain the following:

The periods of time for which an article is to be assigned to an assortment

Inclusive or exclusive assignment (that is, whether an article is to be listed or excluded from listing)

The number of the module which caused the listing conditions to be generated

Whether the listing is for a promotion listing

Whether the module is assigned to a rack jobber

Whether an article is listed as a component of a structured article

In the case of manual listing using manually created assortment modules, the system creates listing conditions based on the assignment of the assortment module to an assortment.

In the case of automatic listing, the system uses listing rules to create listing conditions.

Allocation

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Retailers often have to centrally distribute merchandise among a large number of recipients (for example, stores). One example would be fashion merchandise or promotional items. Using allocation tables, you can plan the distribution of this type of merchandise and then trigger the necessary goods movements.

You can have the merchandise delivered directly from the vendor to the recipient, from the vendor to a distribution center and then to the recipient, or from a distribution center to a recipient.

After you have completed the planning stage, you can then have the system automatically create documents for procuring or delivering the goods.

Allocation table – wa01, wa02, wa03

Allocation Rule – wa21, wa22, wa23

Follow-on documents – wa03, wa08

Components of an Allocation Table –

The allocation table in made up of various components. The following is a short description of the main ones:

Allocation Table Header

An allocation table has one header.

The header contains information such as the allocation table number, the organizational levels for which it is valid (purchasing organization and purchasing group) and a header text.

Allocation Table Item

An item is assigned to the header.

Each allocation table can have a number of items. An item contains information such as the items category, the article number, the planned quantity, the allocation rule or site group used and the item status.

Site Group

A site group is assigned to an allocation table item.

The information displayed on the site group includes the number of the site group, the number of sites assigned to it, the quotas and the planned quantities.

Site

A site is assigned to a site group.

The information displayed on the site includes the number of the site, the planned quantity for the site and supply source.

Distribution Center

A distribution center is assigned to one or more sites.

The information displayed on the distribution center includes the number of the distribution center, the planned quantity and the external vendor supplying the distribution center.

Delivery Phase for a Site or Distribution Center

A delivery phase is assigned to a site/distribution center.

The information displayed on the delivery phase includes the delivery date, the order date and the delivery quantity.

Allocation Table Set-Up

The following is a simplified example of how an allocation table can be set up. Allocation rule 17 is used to determine how merchandise in a particular merchandise category is split up among the sites in site group R0021. The merchandise is split up in the ratio 6:4 between the two sites R151 and R152 in the site group. Variants 1 and 2 are to be allocated for the generic article 1.

Item	Article	Alloc. rule	Site group	Site	Quantity
10	Single article 1	17			2000
			R0021		2000
				R151	1200
				R152	800
20	Generic article 1	17			1000
			R0021		1000
				R151	600
				R152	400
30	Variant 1 of item 20	17			700
			R0021		700
				R151	420
				R152	280
40	Variant 2 of item 20	17			300
			R0021		300
				R151	180
				R152	120

Synchronising Allocation table for Order changes –

You usually define allocation tables at an early stage in your business processes because you plan and order fashion goods, for example, with a long lead time. If your requirements change after you have created a purchase order but before the goods are delivered, for example, due to new stores opening, you can change the existing purchase order.

The system updates allocation-relevant changes in purchase orders to the relevant allocation tables.

Integration

You make changes to allocation-relevant purchase order items in purchase order processing for Seasonal Procurement. A log provides you with information about changes and about the synchronization of the allocation table.

The system synchronizes an allocation table in the background when purchase orders are changed.

Prerequisites

· You have generated a vendor order (Seasonal Procurement) as a follow-on document for an allocation table, manually created an allocation table with reference to a purchase order (Seasonal Procurement), or generated an allocation table with reference to a purchase order based on operational assortment planning and control.

· Apart from the vendor order there are no other follow-on documents for recipients of the corresponding allocation table item.

Direct delivery orders cannot be synchronized.

· The purchase order item that you change must be uniquely linked to a delivery phase of the distribution center for an allocation table, otherwise synchronization is not possible.

Features

When the following data is changed, the system updates the changes to the allocation table:

· Purchase order quantity and order unit

· Delivery date in distribution center

· Distribution center

· Flag for allocation table relevance

· Deletion of a purchase order item

You can use a Business Add-In (BAdI) to specify that when the allocation table is synchronized, the data for the distribution center be adjusted, but not the data for the recipient.

For more information, see Customizing for Logistics – General under Merchandise Distribution – Allocation – Allocation Table – Business Add-Ins for the Allocation Table – BAdI: Synchronizing Allocation Table for Changes to PO Items.

Activities

If you change purchase order items in purchase order processing for Seasonal Procurement and confirm your changes, the system first simulates synchronization of the corresponding allocation items. The changes are only effective in the database once you have saved them.

In both cases, you can check the results of changes in a log.

Synchronization is performed in several steps:

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1. The system checks whether follow-on documents exist for recipients of the allocation table item. If they do, the system cannot change the allocation table and it issues a message to purchase order processing stating this.

2. The system copies the changes in the purchase order item to the distribution center of the relevant allocation table item.

3. The system copies changes that are relevant for the allocation table item from the purchase order item. While changes to the delivery date are not relevant, changes to quantities, for example, are.

4. The system transfers changes that are relevant for recipients for the individual allocation items .

You can use a BAdI to deactivate synchronization of recipient data.

5. It is possible that after the system transfers changes from the purchase order item to the allocation table items, these allocation table items will be incomplete. To ensure that the items are complete again and you are able to generate follow-on documents, you must post process incomplete allocation table items in the item overview of the allocation table.

Deleting Allocation Table

Choose the ‘Delete Allocation Table’ screen.

In the Deletion for frame, choose Alloc tbl.
Enter the required criteria for selecting the allocation tables to be deleted, for example purchasing organization, purchasing group or the allocation table number
Enter the status of allocation tables you want to select. A distinction is made between:

- Status Not active

An allocation table has this status if no follow-on documents have been generated for it. This type of deletion is used in cases where you have just created an allocation table but you realize immediately that it is not required (because the data entered was not correct or the allocation is not needed after all) and can be deleted.

- Status Done

An allocation table has this status if all follow-on documents have been generated for it.

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Cross docking

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Cross-docking is an efficient consumer response (ECR) concept used to improve logistics, in particular in the distribution center. The goods are taken from goods receipt to goods issue without being placed in storage in the meantime. You can use the cross docking method to increase inventory turn, move the goods through the distribution center more quickly and reduce the costs for processing and storage.You can also use the cross-docking method in SAP Retail even if you do not use a warehouse management system. Cross-docking includes the following processing methods:

Cross-docking

The shipping units are not unpacked or repacked between goods receipt and goods issue.

Flow-through

Once they have been received, the goods are transported to a repacking zone, where they are repacked. They are then taken to goods issue. The following types of flow-through exist:

- Recipient-driven flow-through

After goods receipt, the merchandise distribution data is evaluated and the relevant deliveries are created for the recipients. The articles for these deliveries are then picked.

- Merchandise-driven flow-through

The goods are picked in the distribution center using a distribution order. When a handling unit (e.g. a pallet) is full, a delivery is created containing the content of the handling unit. You can only use this method if you use Lean WM.

A pallet of boxes of red wine is delivered to goods receipt. A distribution order is created for the pallet when the goods receipt is posted, and is printed in the form of a distribution list. A member of the warehouse staff takes the pallet to the distribution zone, where there are a number of pallets, each assigned to a different store. Other articles have already been placed on these pallets for the stores.

The warehouse staff use the information on the distribution list to put the boxes of red wine on the store pallets, e.g. 6 boxes on pallet 1 (Boston store), 4 boxes on pallet 2 (Cambridge store) etc. Once a store pallet is full, a delivery is created for it in the system. The goods on the pallets are then secured, and the pallets transported to goods issue.

Jon Reed on IS-Retail

Org Structure in IS-Retail

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Site

A site is a store, a distribution center or a production location. In SAP Retail, the site is the organizational level at which merchandise replenishment is planned and stocks are managed.

A store is assigned one purchasing organization and one sales area (sales organization, distribution channel and division) and thereby also a distribution chain, to which the store belongs and which is used primarily for intercompany billing purposes. The store must be authorized to receive goods from the sales area to which the supplying distribution center belongs. If it is to be possible for merchandise to be transferred from one store to another, then the recipient store must also be authorized to receive goods from the sales area to which the supplying store belongs.

Each distribution center is assigned a purchasing organization (and, if required, a sales area) for determining warehouse transfer prices and units of measure.

A distribution center can also be assigned to a site (normally to itself) and a distribution chain (for determining sales prices). These assignments enable merchandise in the distribution center to be valuated at retail prices. This sort of valuation is most common in the apparel industry.

Each site belongs to exactly one company code.

Site groups

A site group is a number of sites that have been grouped together using the Classification System.

You can use the Classification System to group together sites that have similar characteristics or are located close to each other, for example. This simplifies data maintenance, and can also be of use for reporting purposes.

To create site groups, at least one class type has to be defined in the Classification System.

Application groups are defined in Customizing and are assigned the class type required for creating the relevant site groups. This class type uses the customer number of the site as the key. The application groups Allocation Table, Promotions, Season and Labeling are predefined to allow these applications to work with the intended site groups.

Site groups operate independently of company codes, distribution chains and other fixed organizational structures.

Distribution Chain

The purpose of a distribution chain is to structure sales within a retail company. A distribution chain is made up of a sales organisation and a distribution channel.

Many retail companies use a variety of different sales channels to sell to their customers. These include store-based retailing, wholesale and Internet selling. In the case of store-based retailing, stores can belong to different chains, which have a common look and feel, a common assortment and common goods presentation but which target different groups of customers. SAP Retail reflects these different sales channels by means of distribution chains.

In addition to the marketing aspect, distribution chains are used in conjunction with sales area data to control logistics processes.

Distribution chains are also important for sales pricing. It is not only possible to determine sales prices for an individual site or customer but also for an entire distribution chain.

Distribution chains also have an important role as structuring characteristics for reporting on sales.

There are three types of distribution chains in SAP Retail:

Store distribution chains

Distribution center distribution chains

Wholesale distribution chains

You assign the distribution chain type in Customizing under Distribution chain control. Among other things, the distribution chain type controls different logistics processes. In sales price calculation, it controls whether the sales price includes taxes or not.

Customer relationships are important for controlling logistics processes. You maintain these according to sales area. A sales area is a combination of a sales organisation, distribution channel and division. Unlike in industrial companies, there is generally no differentiation made in SAP Retail between product-related divisions, therefore the distribution chain is definitive for the customer relationship.

You determine which distribution chains each site is going to use to deliver its merchandise. For a store that sells to consumers, the only available option is generally a store distribution chain, which represents a suitable chain of stores. Sometimes, however, you may need to differentiate between anonymous consumers and your known major customers, to whom you offer special prices. In this case you can set up a major customers distribution chain for your major customers. For distribution centers you can set up different distribution center distribution chains to supply the stores in the different chains, which have different transfer prices. For stores that are supplied by a distribution center, you maintain customer relationships for these distribution chains.

The significance of the distribution chain for logistics and price determination is also manifest in integrated article maintenance. In the distribution chain-related sales view you maintain data that is relevant for delivery, for example, the sales unit. For price determination, you maintain the actual sales price and other condition parameters but you also need to enter certain control data, such as the price fixing flag or the competition characterization of the article.

If there are lots of distribution chains, you can set up reference distribution chains to reduce the amount of work needed to maintain customer and article master data and conditions. To do this, enter suitable reference distribution channels for a distribution chain in Customizing under Distribution chain control.

Difference between material and article

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In the case of the Retail solution, the central object in all logistics processes is the article, whereas in industry it is the material.

Retail and industry have different needs in terms of the corresponding master data and maintenance options. For example, to optimally process all its fashion processes, retail needs variants (such as color and size). Industry, however, uses bills of material for special requirements in the area of production planning. Due to the large number of articles in the retail industry, master data maintenance must also be integrated into processing.

To best support the different processes in retail and industry, ECC provides different maintenance transactions for materials and articles. Unlike the material master, the article master contains the following additional points:

· Specific additional data is integrated, for example, purchasing info records, listings and sales price calculations.

· Several organizational levels, for example, sites and distribution chains, and for generic articles several articles, can be processed online in one single maintenance transaction.

In the material master you can process only one material or one plant at a time, but in the article master the system transfers data from higher levels to the dependent levels, provided you have not maintained these differently. For example, the system transfers data from a generic article to all its variants. It also transfers data from reference sites to individual sites.

To set up your default start transaction, choose System – User profile – Own data. On the Defaults tab page, enter W10T in the Start menu field and choose Save.

You can only use the full set of functions for SAP Retail if you have configured your system as an SAP Retail system

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