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....

See also the newer blog “Decentralized OPP (Omnichannel Promotion Pricing) on Docker” SAP Omnichannel Promotion Pricing   “BLACK BOX Concept” – Implementation guidance for non-SAP environments SAP Omnichannel Promotion Pricing provides a central price and promotion repository that stores all relevant information for the calculation of effective sales prices in all sales and communication channels.....

Many retailers are implementing SAP Commerce Cloud along with the new Spartacus UX java script-based Framework, which offers huge advantages over the former template based B2C accelerator. The SAP Commerce Cloud, Integration extension Pack 2108 and higher supports the integration of SAP Retail’s Omnichannel Article Availability and Sourcing (aka OAA) with the Spartacus storefront. Before 2108 however, OAA is only supported by....

Beyond powerful POS document management and superb planning and forecast capabilities, SAP Customer Activity Repository serves as the Omnichannel Commerce Hub, which runs best and in full harmony with SAP Hybris Commerce as the Omnichannel Commerce Platform. Without surprise SAP Hybris Commerce a key element in the SAP Retail Omnichannel reference architecture, and is well integrated with SAP Retail to run the full....

SAP Omnichannel Promotion Pricing with its integrated promotion maintenance offers a  comprehensive package for maintaining promotions and calculating effective sales prices. Beyond the calculation service, the solution also includes the Data Access service (using OData) for reading prices and promotions. SAP Omnichannel Promotion Pricing supports online scenarios only. However, there might be specific customer scenarios that....

Update: this service is not available anymore and has been phased out. If you need to use OPP use the available standard products like OPPS (cloud-based) or OPP XSA (official OPP software package). Summary (tldr;): my team created a Docker-based OPP package which allows customers to create and deploy an OPP-standalone instance in ~30 minutes.....

In this blog I describe how to create and run a local version of the promotion pricing service (PPS) based on the artifacts delivered with SAP Customer Activity Repository application bundle (CARAB). This delivery offers the central PPS as part of the omnichannel promotion pricing (OPP) module. Previously In a previous blog (https://blogs.sap.com/2018/10/11/sap-opp-black-box-concept-implementation-guidance-for-non-sap-envir…), my colleague ingo.woesner described....

One of the important aspects mentioned for the success of the SAP Cloud Integration is delivery of Prepackaged Integration Content. Today there are nearly 300+ integration packages & 1800+ iFlows delivered by SAP that are developed based SAP Cloud Integration covering numerous business use cases. All the integration contents are available on SAP API Business Hub (For more detail....

SAP Omnichannel Promotion Pricing with its integrated promotion maintenance offers a  comprehensive package for maintaining promotions and calculating effective sales prices. Beyond the calculation service, the solution also includes the Data Access service (using OData) for reading prices and promotions. SAP Omnichannel Promotion Pricing supports online scenarios only. However, there might be specific customer scenarios that....

Very often there is a question or requirement from Retail business to see real available stock of store in the system. For manufacturing or logistics industries (excluding decentralized operations or systems) this is rather easy task with usage of the Available to Promise (ATP) functionality as its wide configuration range should be a sufficient source....

Introduction: Merchandising /Material Group Hierarchy is an hierarchy available for categorizing articles from a purchase/procurement business process point of view. Merchandising Category/Material group is the last level of the hierarchy. For understanding this Hierarchy concept below resources are of big help. Merchandise Category Hierarchy: WHY (Business View) Merchandise Category Hierarchy From a functional point of....

Distribution curves are objects that hold quantity distribution ratios across different variant-creating characteristic value combinations. For example, you can use distribution curves to distribute the quantities across different variants if the quantity is provided at generic article level. So Distribution Curve application is applicable to Generic article level and it distributes quantity on variant level.....

In Fashion industry ordering process always aligned with the particular season and for order fulfilment purchasing team will always have a set of dates by when order should reach them to supplier. If the orders do not reach within the predefined date, then the order could be rejected or acceptance/processing might be postponed to future....

Automatic Document Adjustment is a popular functionality widely used in Materials Management and in Retail environment as well being able to update documents based on condition changes in mass – and roughly automated! Current blog puts focus on Purchase Order related issues, related frequently asked questions and misconception with Automatic Document Adjustment (ADA). Pre-read https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/9905622a5c1f49ba84e9076fc83a9c2c/e24dc4530b29b44ce10000000a174cb4.html?locale=en-US [1]....

There are a number of things you can do to improve your return rate, including better photos, better product descriptions, and maybe changing the sizing specifics of your products. Hopefully, you, too, took similar steps, and everything went smoothly, and you were able to obtain some sort of decrease. However, there are a number of....

The pandemic, in particular, has boosted ecommerce, but also all other forms of technology. To retain sales, retailers have had to offer a variety of technologies, such as pick-up in store, ship from store, and even curbside pick-up. Furthermore, for obvious reasons, the use of cashless payment has increased dramatically. Customers have grown accustomed to....

“When will the data migration deliverables be “done?” Data Migration doesn’t fit well into project tracking schemes. Unsurprisingly, the frustration of stakeholders eventually becomes palpable on every project. If you ask me — the functional master data guy — when data migration will be “done” then the honest answer is clear: “The day before go-live.” ....