SAP Announces SAP Retail Store, Industry's First Self-Contained, Integrated Retail Solution Tailored for Store Requirements.MADRID, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1998-- Provides Retail Store Managers With New Dimension of Flexibility and Control To Thrive in Fast-Changing Customer Environment At its European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. user conference SAPPHIRE(R) Madrid, SAP AG (company) SAP AG - (Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung - German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing") A company from Germany that sells the leading suite of client-server business software. The US branch is called SAP America. today announced SAP(TM) Retail Store, a new self-contained component that combines SAP Retail store-specific functionality, a simple browser-based interface tailored to the unique needs of retail store employees, and innovative Java-based technology that allows stores to work online or offline. The SAP Retail solution and preconfigured Set up ahead of time. It implies that the device or software application has been modified to suit the customer or situation. See ghosting server. SAP Retail store-specific functionality cover the entire demand chain in a comprehensive system, from the customer order in the store to warehouse logistics and procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. processes in the main office to manufacturing. This end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. provides store-level managers with improved access to information, greater control over their local store activities, and the ability to analyze local market conditions and react quickly to changing customer and business requirements. "For the first time, retail stores will have all the capabilities and information they need from headquarters while maintaining an unprecedented level of autonomy and flexibility to meet changing customer requirements," said Dr. Peter Zencke, SAP AG executive board member. "This will allow retailers to get closer to their customers and increase their competitive edge." SAP Retail Store optimizes local store-specific functions such as adapting promotion quantities, store-based purchasing, goods movement and sales processes A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. . In addition, the browser-based interface minimizes training time through intuitive user guidance, ensuring prompt and effective use by all store staff. As a result, even part-time or temporary employees will find it easy to use SAP Retail Store. SAP Retail Store combines the intuitive features of a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. with the powerful transactions of the SAP Retail solution. Previewed at SAPPHIRE Madrid, SAP Retail Store is planned for first customer shipment in the third quarter of 1998. "The SAP Retail Store component will make it easier for users in retail stores to learn and work with the R/3(TM) System and will speed up implementation time considerably," said Jan von Bokhoven, project manager, Vendex Food Groep Retail 2000, a Dutch food retailer. "I am really impressed im·press 1 tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: and want the SAP Retail Store up and running this year." Headquarters Integration Provides Unprecedented Flexibility, Speed and Supports ECR ECR Efficient Consumer Response ECR European Congress of Radiology ECR Electron Cyclotron Resonance ECR El Camino Real (Kings Highway; California) ECR Electronic Cash Register ECR East Coast Radio (South Africa) SAP Retail Store provides efficient support for stores and distribution chains with all levels of autonomy and enables an integrated approach to retailing. Benefits include: - Increased data and inventory accuracy and reliability - Central consolidation of information - Ability to forward orders immediately - Successful end-to-end end-to-end a pattern of anastomosis in which severed ends are matched and united, in contrast with other patterns such as end-to-side or side-to-side. Usually applied to anastomosis of the intestine. retail integration to facilitate efficient consumer response (ECR) The increased levels of flexibility and control give store managers the ability to maneuver maneuver /ma·neu·ver/ (mah-noo´ver) a skillful or dextrous method or procedure. Bracht's maneuver a method of extraction of the aftercoming head in breech presentation. quickly to changing customer preferences, increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty at the point of sale. "The direction SAP is taking is right on target," said Heinz Merkle, IT store processing, Lidl & Schwarz Stiftung & Co. KG, German mass merchant. "A complete system has a major advantage over the retailing systems currently on the market in that the stores are logically in the same system as the central retailing functions." SAP Retail Store Capabilities SAP Retail Store includes a completely new user interface uniquely designed for the retail store employee, requiring little or no training. Using a standard PC and Web browser software, SAP Retail Store also helps keep administrative time and costs to a minimum. o Store-specific capabilities include: - Master Data access, maintenance and analysis. SAP Retail Store gives the local staff access to all pertinent PERTINENT, evidence. Those facts which tend to prove the allegations of the party offering them, are called pertinent; those which have no such tendency are called impertinent, 8 Toull. n. 22. By pertinent is also meant that which belongs. Willes, 319. product and customer information. Store employees can view and analyze product information for local promotions and advertising. Store staff can also directly enter or change customer information. - Purchasing. Leveraging the integration between SAP Retail Store and SAP Retail at headquarters, the local store staff can easily enter orders online with a minimum amount of data entry. Employees can receive immediate confirmation of stock availability, pricing and expected goods receipt. - Goods Movement. Close integration of the headquarters and retail store also enables store staff to quickly and efficiently receive returns, markdowns and mass shipment of goods using reference documents - reducing the burden of data entry and minimizing the opportunity for mistakes. - Sales. Retail store staff can support a variety of consumer orders including different methods for delivery and payment. SAP Retail Store also enables the local sales staff to check the status of pending orders. - Information Flow. The close integration between SAP Retail and SAP Retail Store ensures a seamless flow of information from headquarters to the store front including allocations and change authorizations, promotions and reporting. With the use of electronic mail employees can send and receive text files, tables or graphics to and from head office, distribution center or other stores. - The Store Engine component. The Store Engine, an SAP Retail Store component residing at the store site, enables the retailer to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. , store and use all the relevant store-specific information such as inventory levels and pricing. The Store Engine provides retailers with the flexibility to conduct business online during availability checking, pricing or ordering, integrating directly with the head office -- or offline --synchronizing with the head office at their convenience. This gives stores greater autonomy and reduces telecommunication telecommunication Communication between parties at a distance from one another. Modern telecommunication systems—capable of transmitting telephone, fax, data, radio, or television signals—can transmit large volumes of information over long distances. costs while providing increased reliability and availability of information critical to keep business moving in the fast-paced retail environment. The Store Engine is written in platform-independent Java using state-of-the-art object technology. It uses the message-based communication of the SAP Business Framework(TM) to asynchronously harmonize business events. The self-contained Java application A Java program that is run stand alone. The Java Virtual Machine in the client or server is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java applet. See servlet. allows even small stores Noun 1. small stores - personal items conforming to regulations that are sold aboard ship or at a naval base and charged to the person's pay commissary - a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel) with minimal IT budgets to be able to use the SAP Retail Store solution on the most cost-effective hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. . SAP Retail Store Is a Critical Piece of the SAP Retail Industry Solution SAP Retail is a comprehensive enterprise solution for the retail industry. It integrates all the key sectors of wholesale and retail business and provides links throughout the logistics pipeline. Based on the core R/3 solution, SAP Retail incorporates additional functions specifically developed for the unique needs of retailers. By working closely with customers and collaborating with key technology and implementation partners, SAP ensures that its solution provides the functionality for retailers to better manage their businesses today, and the flexibility to grow in the future. SAP Retail offers retailers the only complete enterprise solution to manage their inventory, replenishment replenishment the addition of an appropriate quantity of properly prepared solution containing the correct concentration of chemicals to the developer solutions used in radiography. , promotions, purchasing, sales, sourcing goals, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , asset management, financials and e-commerce in an integrated, data-sharing environment. Since the roll-out of SAP Retail last year, more than 100 companies worldwide have adopted the solution, as announced last week at the Retail Systems '98 show in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded . Several of these customers in various industry segments have become productive including Meinl (an Austrian retail grocery), Leder & Schuh (an Austrian shoe and retail enterprise) and HEMA HEMA Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate HEMA Hollandsche Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam (Dutch international retail organization) HEMA Hydroxy Ethyl Methacrylate HEMA Health and Environment Ministers of the Americas HEMA Hemophilia, Classic (a Dutch private-label retailer). By leveraging SAP Retail Store, customers will be able to maximize their investments and extend the strength of SAP Retail directly to the store level. "It is exactly right for a central retailing system to reach out and integrate the stores," said Peter Wickertsheim, director of information technology and organization at Unternehmensgruppe Tengelmann, a worldwide supermarket group. "This makes the retailing system in the stores a logical extension of the system in the head office." SAP Retail Online Store Provides E-Commerce Addition to SAP Retail Industry Solution SAP also announced last week at Retail Systems '98 the availability of the SAP Retail Online Store component and Category Manager Workbench functionality. These new additions to SAP Retail reinforce the company's commitment to delivering a comprehensive and best-in-class retail solution and are now complemented by the new SAP Retail Store component. (See release issued last week entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: , "SAP Retail Delivers New E-Commerce And Category Management Functionality at Retail Systems `98".) - SAP Retail Online Store is an E-Commerce solution for business-to -business and consumer-to-business commerce. SAP Retail Online Store extends SAP Retail, enabling retailers and wholesalers to sell goods via the Internet to consumers and customers. - The Category Manager Workbench is a business analysis tool that is essential for ECR initiatives. The Workbench provides quick, easy and robust analyses of key merchandising merchandising Element of marketing concerned especially with the sale of goods and services to customers. One aspect of merchandising is advertising, which aims to capture the interest of the segment of the population most likely to buy the product. retail activities, including sales volume, individual store sales, inventory turns and SKUs. Availability SAP Retail Store is scheduled for first customer shipment in the third quarter of 1998. First customer shipment of Store Engine is scheduled to be in 1999. 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