We are a Retail business with approximately 105 stores in our retail network. Each store currently manages their store inventory via the SRS (SAP Retail Store) component. We have upgraded to ECC 6.0 and noticed that there are two enhancement packs available to help individual stores manage their inventory at near real-time.
The first enhancement pack (EHP 2) is associated with business function ISR_RETAIL_STORE. We are primarily interested in the in-store inventory management and the ability to consolidate the sales transactions from the POS DM (with stock information from ERP) to have real-time stock information. We are also interested in the ability to perform physical inventory and cycle counting during store hours. More details available at the following URL... http://help.sap.com/ERP2005_EHP_02/helpdata/EN/46/4980CA78095E3FE10000000A11466F/frameset.htm
The second enhancement pack (EHP 3) is associated with business function ISR_RETAIL_STORE_2. It provides additional functionality in the sales order of SAP Retail Store to display current inventory for the store (or other stores in the retail network). Like the EHP above, we are particularly interested in being able to access the POS data management transactions that haven't been posted in SAP ERP so that we can see the real-time inventory. More details available at the following URL...
http://help.sap.com/ERP2005_EHP_03/helpdata/EN/BD/295A1424BC4AB0B552789B741FD89A/frameset.htm.
The documentation indicates that the solutions can access transactions in POSDW for real-time inventory. We are curious if there are any other SAP retail customers using one (or both) of these enhancements. If yes, do you see any performance degredation on the SAP BW environment as a result of accessing real-time inventory via SRS (or mobile device)?
Thanks,
Pete Settle