SAP IS Retail: End Users Guide to Pull & Push Based Replenishment Process

The replenishment process in SAP Retail module is used to replenish merchandise from the vendor to the store. In this end user manual, the following processes are explained step-wise with screenshots;

  • Pull Based – This replenishment strategy is used when the past consumption is a good indicator of future consumption
    • Check Existing Stock at store [RWBE]
    • Perform Sales Simulation at store [WPUK]
    • Check Article Document [WPER]
    • Check article Stock at store [RWBE]
    • Check & Update article consumption data for the article at store [MM42]
    • Run Forecast at store [MP30]
    • Check & Change Forecast Values at store [MP31]
    • Run Replenishment at store [WRP1]
    • Check Stock transport Order/Purchase Order [WRP1]
    • Run Stock/Requirement List [MD04]
    • Check and update article consumption data [MM42]
    • Run forecast [MP30]
    • Run Requirement Planning [MD03]
    • Collective PO for vendor [MM42]
  • Push Based – This replenishment strategy is used when the past consumption is not a good indicator of future consumption
    • Maintain store group for Push Based Allocation [WB80]
    • Assign sites to store groups [WB86]
    • Create Allocation Rule [WA21]
    • Create Allocation Table [WA01]
    • Create follow-on documents [WA08]

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FICO, MM and SD Blueprint Documents for SAP IS-Retail Implementation

The purpose of these sample Finance & Controlling (FI-CO), Materials Management (MM) and Sales and Distribution (SD) Business Blueprint (BBP) documents is to prepare to move forward with the IS-Retail implementation in SAP R/3 system.

The Blueprint and its associated appendices present a summarized perspective of all functional business processes that will be implemented. As such, the Blueprint document serves from this point forward the dual role of both official project scope as well as system acceptance criteria.
The body of these documents describe the organizational structure, master Data, and R/3 functional process flows to be implemented in sub-modules of all FI-CO, MM, and SD modules in SAP.

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SAP IS-Retail Configuration and Scenarios Guide

This will be my first share regarding IS-Retail related document. The step by step tutorial document you will find below covers following common configuration steps of IS-Retail in SAP;

  • Organizational Structure Configuration ( Define Company Code, Division, Distribution, Sales Area etc.. )
  • Site Creation (DC), Site Creation (Store), Article Creation, Vendor Creation
  • Processes (Assortment Listing, Pricing, Merchandise Category
  • Scenarios (Purchase from External Vendor, Stock Transfer from DC to Store )

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