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PRICAT Inbound

SAP Best Practices for Retail(India)

SAP Best Practices


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Scenario Overview - 1

Purpose

In this scenario you transfer pricing and catalog-related data for goods andservices from a vendor to a buyer.

Benefits

Efficient merchandise control which fulfills the requirements of ECR-compliant

procurement processes Simulation of data coming from the manufacturer and process this data further in

the retailer system

Key process flows covered

Simulation of PRICECATALOGUE IDoc inbound processing

Inbound Processing of a Price catalog

Processing of Catalog Items manually / automatically Creating / Changing of articles

Purpose and Benefits:


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Scenario Overview - 2

Required

SAP EHP3 for SAP ERP 6.0

Company roles involved in process flows

Retail Master Data Manager

Manufacturer

SAPApplications Required:


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Process Flow Diagram

Create Pricecatalog -IDoc

Create / ChangeArticles

AutomaticProcessing

Inbound Processing Selecting a Catalog

Checking / ChangingCatalog Items Posting a Pricat Item

RetailMasterDataManager

Manufacturer

Simulated


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PRICAT Inbound

Introduction

Between Retailers and Manufacturer of the German textile and apparel

industry, cooperatively concepts within the framework of procurement,marketing and using of information and communication technology aredeveloped.

Collaboration concepts, like Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), earn onimportance. The new technologies open small and middle comanies thepossibility to accomplish the structure change and also to reinforce theircompetitive strength.

SAP offers a software solution within the framework of the SAP BestPractices Version, which reflects the new requirements of ECR conformableprocurement processes.


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PRICAT Inbound

Introduction

With SAP software you have the possibility to build up the manufacturer andalso the retailer side. We will show you here the procurement processes onthe retailer side.

The ECR conformable procurement processes embrace the price catalog, thebuyer managed inventory and also the vendor managed inventory.


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Price catalog: PRICAT

PRICAT

Is an EANCOM standard message type

Area of master data

Enables pricing and catalog-related data for goods and services to be transferred from avendor to a buyer

Complete listing of all products

Notification of changes

Information relevant for all customers

Customer-specific information Data supplied to a central article database


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Price catalog: Supply of a data pool

Vendor Retailer

Master Data

Data Poolf. e. Sinfos

XI Inbound processingof PriceCatalogue Idoc

BAPI/ALE

Generate ofPriceCatalogue Idocs

Sender Recipient

XI


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Price catalog inbound: process flow

Simulation of IDocInbound processing

Display Header Data(catalog)

List of article

Adopt Profile

Process Price catalogmanual / automatical

Process not existing article data in theCustomer system (EANs) /

Creating article

Process available article data in thecustomer system (EANs) /

Update of article


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Price catalog inbound: catalog creation

The catalog is stored on the database as a separate businessobject PriceCatalogue

EANCOM fields that do not correspond to R/3 fields are transferred tothe system

It is possible to select articles to be updated

Transfer can be controlled at field level

If an EAN exists uniquely in the system, article assignment iscarried out

If errors occur, an application log containing all messages iscreated (transaction PRICATLOG)


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Price catalog inbound: preparation

Preparation before catalog transfer

Assignment of ILN to SAP vendor, purchasing group

Assignment of merchandise categories to SAP merchandise categories (foreach ILN)

Assignment of SAP merchandise categories to purchasing groups

Workflow preparation

Assignment of buyers (SAP users) to organizational units, to which the

relevant purchasing groups are assigned (transaction PFOM)


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Price catalog inbound: accessing catalog

maintenance

Header data

Set catalog status

After processing, the catalog status is automatically set to 'processed'

Catalog status can be manually set to 'closed'

Set test indicator

If you want to process the catalog you have to enter always thepurchasing group

Price catalog could be processed manually or automatically


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Price catalog inbound: accessing catalog

maintenance

List of article

In the list of article you will find now the article (items) of the new

price catalog

Items are distributed among several views according to their status

New items have no entra in the field article and you can find thisitems in tabstrip to be processed, to be processed (article can notbe assigned) and all entries


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Price catalog inbound: assignment of EAN to

an article

The assignment of EAN to an article occurs automatically when a catalogis created (unique EAN)

Manually in catalog maintenance

Assigned article is stored in price catalog

Can be entered at a later date

If the EAN is not unique, all possible EANs are displayed

For assignment, articles are also displayed with the vendor article numberfrom the catalog

New articles need template articles (proposed from the merchandisecategory)


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Price catalog inbound: transferring catalog

data to article data

Adopt profile

The transfer of catalog data to article data could be done with an adoptprofile

The adopt profile enables the simultaneous display of catalog data andarticle data(or in the case of new data, the template article)

Required data must be explicitly transferred from the catalog to the articleside, either manually or by using a transfer profile

Adopt profiles could be stored and used again

The article fields can be edited


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Price catalog inbound: assignment of EAN to

unit of measure

Automatically

By mapping the EANCOM packaging type to alternative unit of measure in the

converter During R/3-R/3 data interchange

Manually in catalog maintenance

Can be changed at a later date

New units of measure must be explicitly transferred

It is possible to transfer all units of measure from the catalog

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