Standard Functions Not Supported in SAP Retail
SAP Retail supports the special function for handling generic articles in Materials Management and Sales and Distribution only, not in any of the other standard areas.
SAP Retail does not support the following standard functions with articles: You can therefore only use these functions for materials:
Variant configuration with inventory-managed variants
You can only use variants of a generic article in the variant configuration as an item in the super bill of material. You cannot use generic articles in bills of material.
Long-term planning
You cannot maintain specific data for long-term planning for articles.
Co-product production
You cannot create specific data for co-product production (for example, apportionment structure for costs) for articles. You can map production transactions with by-products in the bill of material, using articles with a negative quantity.
Foreign Trade
Legal controls
Preference determination
Letter of credit processing for import
Forms: Single registration, collective registration
Production resources/tools
You cannot maintain specific data for production resources/tools for articles. Instead, you should use materials.
Material ledger
SAP Retail does not support the material ledger. This is due to the likely performance problems that would occur when dealing with a large number of articles in many stores, and compatibility problems between certain retail-specific valuation procedures (value articles, RMA) and the material ledger (see also customer message 11192/2002). An enhancement would then be needed in the article master and the material ledger (sales values must be updated in the material ledger and the data structures and the update must be extended).
Valuation levels above the plant (company code).
To do this, extensive enhancements may be required in the article master and in other areas.
- Plan article changes (change service)
- Revision level for articles
- Manufacturer part number management
- Proportion unit, active ingredient unit of measure
- Creation of articles using the CAD interface
- Inflation handling for South America
Special handling tool for South American countries that require a revaluation method once a particular inflation rate has been exceeded. To do this, article valuation data must be updated in a table for this purpose ( Inflation MBEW , same key as MBEW ). You cannot currently maintain this data in the article master.
Requirements planning areas
If a system is primarily a retail system you can generally not activate any requirements planning areas, not even for materials. The article master does not provide any segments for requirements planning parameters.
For information on deactivation within a Retail system, see Note 163001.
Transaction parameters and planning parameters (process manufacturing)
