mid-14c. "sell in small quantities or parcels," from Old French retaillier "cut back, cut off, pare, clip, reduce, circumcise," from re- "back" (see re-) + taillier " [..]

early 15c., "sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels or at second hand" (opposed to wholesale), from Old French retail "piece cut off, shred, scrap, paring" (Modern Fren [..]

having to do with the sale of finished goods to consumers.

to sell in small quantities

Definition Selling directly to consumers.

The sale of goods to the general public.

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(n) the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale(v) be sold at the retail level(v) sell on the retail market(adv) at a retail price

Sales of electric energy to ultimate customers.

 Sales covering electrical energy supplied for residential, commercial, and industrial end-use purposes. Other small classes, such as agriculture and street lighting, also are included in this category.

Sales covering electrical energy supplied for residential, commercial, and industrial end-use purposes. Other small classes, such as agriculture and street lighting, also are included in this category [..]

Sales covering electrical energy supplied for residential, commercial, and industrial end-use purposes. Other small classes, such as agriculture and street lighting, also are included in this category [..]

Sales covering electrical energy supplied for residential, commercial and industrial end-use purposes. Other small classes, such as agriculture and street lighting, also are included in this category.

We use this term to describe how Inchcape sells its brand partners’ cars though the network of franchised and fully owned car retail centres. Inchcape builds scale relationships with core brand partne [..]

Individual and institutional customers as opposed to dealers and brokers.

sale of single item goods to customer.

The development, production, logistics, marketing and sale of hardware together with software and other services for Wincor Nixdorf’s retail customers.

The business of selling merchandise or services to consumers. Authorize.Net uses this term to refer to merchants that operate in a storefront or physical location and accept Card Present payments—mean [..]

Simple to use, material-unspecific stock-keeping or transportation unit of a material, such as a pallet, layer or container.

Web DynPro application within SAP Merchandise and Assortment Planning to create master data (product, assortment, version, color, size) during a planning process; for example, Assortment Planning

Unique 13-digit number made up of a country identification number, a vendor number (BBN), company-internal material number and the check digit calculated.

Assortment module normally used for materials that are to be listed on a relatively long-term basis in the same way (for example, brand name goods).

Revaluation in the stock of a material at retail, whereby the total stock is valuated at the new price in a plant.

Goods (such as fresh produce) that are no longer suitable for sale because they have been stored wrongly or for too long a period.

Group of materials (such as a set, prepack, or display) that is handled in certain logistics processes as a separate material. You assign the components to the structured material when maintaining the [..]

Target for the sales of a material in a certain period.

Level to which the stock of a material at a customer is filled up by the replenishment process. The target stock can either be defined manually or calculated by a forecast.

Target within a planning step link.

Control parameter for the forecast in Replenishment. The target range of forecast is the number of periods for which the material is to be available at the customer.

An amount up to which small differences in an invoice are accepted by the invoice recipient.

Indicates whether an assortment module is active or inactive.

Functions for controlling procurement processes that are currently running along the supply chain.

Here you define how the system is to react within seasonal procurement to situations transferred by SAP Event Management (SAP EM). You can use it to control the following activities:

Amount in a till as a result of cash counting at a register or store at the end of a day or shift.

A date that has already occurred, for example, the actual delivery date.

Differs from the planned markup because it must round the final price to one of the valid price points.

Additionals are assigned to materials for sale to ensure effective sales presentation or to support logistics as a service.

A date that is monitored by procurement controlling in addition to the base dates.

A function that allows you to include additional items from a selection proposed by the system when you create or change a purchase order (using 'vendor known' or 'stock transport order [..]

If a follow-up action is triggered by an event (such as creating a purchase order, for example), the system creates an additionals document for each additional. This document contains all the data for [..]

Data that results when a process combines elements.

Controls how POS transactions are updated in a POS aggregate.

Ratios defined for the allocation of materials to plants.

Procedure used to find a suitable allocation rule for a particular material.

The creation of allocation rules by the system using material data (e.g. quantities sold) from the Retail Information System.

Method of allocating materials to distribution centers and stores.

The planning tool used by a purchasing organization to allocate stocks of a material among plants at specific periods.

A user-selected data source with consumption values which can be used for forecasting in stores or distribution centers.

Relative shares of the total layout area space in a store or department.

Classification of rebate arrangements using characteristic features and the processes associated with these characteristics as a basis.

An article is the smallest unit or customer pack that can be ordered independently and that cannot be split further into any smaller units.

The article hierarchy is used in SAP Retail to display any number of strictly hierarchical article groups in a tree structure. Each hierarchy is identified by a unique hierarchy ID.

An internal document capturing article receipt details prior to the posting of a goods receipt.

Period of time between the first and the last planned assignment test.

A test whether it makes sense to check the invoice in the background.

Document item which is being/has been associated to another document item (called "receiving document item").

An assortment is derived from the planned values of the assortment dimensions, the assortment type, and an article hierarchy node.

A subfunction of position management in the Global Trade Management solution, with which the purchasing-sided and the sales-sided trading positions are managed and connected (association) to map suppl [..]

A special way of creating an association between an item in a purchasing-side document and an item in a sales-side document. A special feature here is that trading contracts can be linked at the point [..]

Part of the entire range of goods offered by a retail company, assigned to a target group for a specific period of time.

Listing procedure control determining which checks must be carried out before a material can be included in an assortment and be assigned to a store.

Definition used to group plants for uniform assortment management.

Describes the depth of an assortment per plant and material group.

Printed or electronic list containing information necessary to document and control procurement processes outside the system.

Comprises the parameters that control how an assortment list is created.

Defines the criteria used for arranging materials in an assortment list.

Defines the cycles in which an assortment list is generated and the number of change versions created before the next full version.

Determines the content of an assortment list.

Group of materials to be managed together in a specified period as an assortment or as part of an assortment.

The assortment type controls the strategic alignment, procurement and treatment of assortments during their creation and planning.

Plant or customer to which an assortment is assigned.

Unlike manual planning, in which data is generated manually, in automatic planning, data is generated automatically. For example, you can use automatic planning to copy planning data from one plan ver [..]

Difference between the delivered price and the sales price as a fixed amount or a percentage.

Key figure used to convert from value-based planning to quantity-based planning.

Document created in the background in addition to a master document.

Calculation of base dates starting from a fixed end date.

The difference between system amount and actual amount.

Lowest level in the plant group hierarchy.

A sales price referring to a special unit of measure (1 litre, 100 millilitres, 1 kilogram).

Gross purchase price used in the calculation of purchase prices.

Documents issued by sender of goods that are shipped with the goods.

Sales transaction in which special conditions are granted when certain products are bought together.

Goods that are damaged so badly (e.g. during transport) that they are no longer suitable for sale.

Broker processing is a form of distribution used by a prior vendor. This vendor (the manufacturer, for example) does not deliver a material to his customers himself but contracts out the delivery to o [..]

Part of the total budget that is available in the application (OTB, PPW) (OTB, PPW).

Level on which budgets are planned.

An assortment valid in one store only.

A special type of standard module valid for just one store or distribution center and which cannot be assigned to any other store or distribution center.

A number that uniquely identifies a budget for an application (Price Planning Workbench, OTB)

Combination of control parameters from budget processes in PPW and OTB applications.

Posting date of a transaction.

Parameter used in Global Trade to identify the context in which a step of a business process is carried out. The business scenario can be used together with other parameters to determine the appropria [..]

Notification that if a date is overrun once more, the contract will be canceled without further warning.

Internet Application in SAP Retail Store.

A payment method where the customer settles the cost in full at the time that the product is received.

Transaction where the customer receives and pays for the goods at the same time as the order is placed. In a cash sale, SAP Retail automatically proposes the current date as the date for delivery and [..]

Funds added in the form of change to the till, usually in the morning, at the beginning of a shift or at change shortage.

Person operating the cash register.

Managing categories as strategic business units, taking the customers' perspective and challenging traditional conventions in product range, space allocation and merchandising. The underlying app [..]

Attribute used to describe and distinguish between objects.

Classification of a characteristic as a color or size characteristic for simplifying processing in color- and size-related processes.

Value that a characteristic can assume.

Logical grouping of characteristic values within a characteristic.

A number of characteristics that logically belong together.

System that is used to describe objects on the basis of characteristics by grouping together into classes (i.e. classifying) objects according to freely definable criteria.

Closed loop from the analysis of data to working with the results in the operational areas (data retraction). The results from the operational level are then fed back into the analysis (data extractio [..]

Used to group purchase orders for both technical and administrative purposes, for example, in the following cases:

Purchase order placed by a distribution center by adding up the quantities of existing warehouse orders/sales orders (pull method). A collective purchase order is usually placed with an external vendo [..]

Unique technical description of the values of the characteristic color by a freely defined coding system.

Type of bonus buy, in which a pre-defined quantity of all the materials defined as a requirement in the combination deal must be purchased before special conditions are granted. (AND-link)

A combination of parameters which determine whether messages can be exchanged and how the assortment list is used.

Reference used in planning the sales expected for a promotion.

Quantity information already transferred to the recipient when quantity information from the information system is transferred via EDI.

Materials listed in a compulsory assortment are obligatory for the plants for which the assortment is valid.

Associate of a company that usually carries out its business on its own account and in its own name in an area which it leases from the company (e.g. hairdressing salon on the premises of a department [..]

Partner with whom the arrangement was negotiated.

Conditions can be defined according to a freely definable schema at any number of different levels of agreement and set down in a particular sequence.

A document used to record conditions that a partner (usually a vendor) grants to a limited group of eligible partners (usually customers).

Date by which plants must reply to an allocation confirmation request.

Price/Value incentives offered by manufacturers directly to consumers (e.g. couponing, sampling, handouts, shelf-dispensers, mail-in-rebates, premiums, contests, etc.).

Return of goods already purchased at POS (retail).

Type of planning that is based on current stock levels and past sales quantities.

Person at the customer location who deals with the sales or marketing department at the vendor location.

Products or services bought as a series of small purchases.

Monitors, among other things, the release order situation, the internal contract apportionment and the OTB indicator of contracts in seasonal procurement.

Gives an overview of all relevant data for a trading contract:

Defines whether a switch from the original material to the substitute material is to be time-controlled or event-controlled.

Standard material that is not created with the master data function, but rather with other SAP functions.

Part of a company seen as a separate area of responsibility, location or cost-accounting entity. Place at which costs occur.

A function in the Global Trade Management solution which serves to harmonize supply and demand along the value chain, and to indicate the risk associated with open positions in trading businesses.

An aspect of forecasting used for distribution centers.

Can be created as either an outline agreement with releases and corresponding quantity adjustments, or as a contract template that contains all relevant information. It can be used to create data in a [..]

Group of variants of one or more generic materials that is purchased as a separate material and as such has a material number, a purchase price, and purchase price conditions. Unlike a display, the co [..]

Structuring of open items in the vendor account during invoice verification and posting of payables with taxes before invoice check is performed.

EANCOM standard message type (from the category 'Master data') used to transfer data relating to prices and catalogs for goods and services from a vendor to a customer.

Grouping of materials according to their sales price. Price bands are not assigned specific sales prices as it is common for the same price bands to be used in every material group.

Group of table fields (for example, material number, material group), for which a new pricing is performed in the trading contract after you have made changes to the fields.

Control mechanism to restrict changes to the resale price of a product. This can take the form of either a recommended retail price or fixed prices.

Level of a price level group with a threshold value for the price and a unique price band category for aggregating the price thresholds.

Assignment of price patterns to material groupings (material group, article hierarchy node).

Combination of similar price level groups.

Purchase order type with which a purchase order is issued to an external vendor or a plant belonging to a different company code.

Defines sales prices for materials and organizational levels in the Price Planning Workbench.

Application for planning and executing price change measures while taking account of the budget data.

Special type of set sales price.

Used in Pricing to define price points within a particular price range.

Type of product label that also contains a retail price.

Combination of materials to be procured and order quantities for a certain period for each store.

Component of SAP Retail that groups functions for managing sales prices in connection with the value chain of a trading company.

A business event in Logistics whose planned or actual occurrence date is used as a basis for the calculation of prices or payment dates.

Document in Pricing that serves to document the results of price calculations in the sales price calculation function.

Function in Pricing that allows you to call up a list of the sales prices for various materials and organizational levels that are valid for a particular period.

Table (list) containing the calculations carried out in the sales price calculation.

Control parameter in the sales price calculation used to group together various attributes relevant for the the processes in a sales price calculation, such as:

Group of special pricing documents that are created in the pricing worklist function when the pricing worklist is created.

Time required from the shipping point to reach a specific goods recipient along a route.

Replaces an original material and can be a follow-up or replacement material.

A calculation of and accounting for the amounts due in accordance with conditions agreed between a customer and a vendor at the end of an agreed period.

The procedure for additionals defines the following:

A material that does not belong to the centrally planned assortment of a retail company.

Collection of plants that is only valid in one promotion.

Variant of a generic material for a specific unit of measure. These variants make it possible to manage separate stocks for different units of measure. You can assign alternative units of measure to a [..]

Grouping of materials that are comparable with regard to their handling and transport.

Method determining how merchandise is processed in a distribution centerafter goods receipt. The following methods are available:

Warehouse order or vendor order in merchandise distribution. A procurement document is used to procure goods for a distribution center from another distribution center or an external vendor.

Combines several functions for monitoring the merchandise procurement process within seasonal procurement:

Logistical variant of a generic material for a unit of measure in which the material is procured from an internal or external vendor.

Means of presentation used in advertising grouping together advertising messages about a number of materials.

Optimum number of sales units per placement of an article on the shelf.

Alphanumerical character string for grouping materials by combining different characteristics.

A planned event, which if postponed would have an effect on all subsequent events.

Process for planning the materials that are to be allocated to stores at certain times and in certain quantities.

Assortment module created exclusively during integrated material maintenance. Material characteristic values determine whether a material is part of a profile module.

Consists of substitution type and control type; it can have the following values:

Controls the assignment of substitution material to original material.

Set of values used by Sales and Distribution for the evaluation and analysis of material data.

Assignment of an original material to a replacement or follow-up material in the material master data.

Open volume of the available purchasing budget and application for processing budgets.

A test when creating and changing OTB-relevant purchasing documents to see whether sufficient budget is available or reserved.

Technical object that stores the relationship between the three business objects Program, Objective and Category Allocation.

Purchasing document that contains at least one item that has not yet been delivered in full.

Marketing activities limited to a set period of time aimed at increasing public awareness for the company on the market and promoting sales.

Tool used by head office to plan, track and monitor the allocation of promotional merchandise to plants.

Assortment module containing all the materials that are to take part in a promotion.

Transaction which allows the targeted sales quantity for each material on promotion to be planned. This quantity together with the promotion sales price and the quantity conversion factor (from the ma [..]

Purchase price for promotional goods for which special purchase price conditions exist.

Sales price of promotional goods used as the basis for planning promotion sales and for promotion profitability analysis.

Updating of promotional data for analysis.

Process consisting of the following activities:

A reduction in price for a temporary period of time usually as part of a promotional event. Sometimes referred to as "temporary markdown".

Sale in which plant personnel are offered the goods at a special price.

The grouping of purchase order items into purchase orders or grouped purchase order documents. The items in the purchasing order grouping have at least one criterion (for example, vendor, fixed-date p [..]

Date-oriented monitoring of purchase order items, from document creation to the presentation of goods in the store, to ensure that the correct quantities are delivered on time.

Optional step prior to the purchase order which, for example, stores use to register a requirement with the distribution center or head office. Purchase requisitions are also created automatically by [..]

Purchasing areas are assigned to the purchasing organizations responsible for negotiating with vendors and maintaining master data.

A purchasing budget is the planned volume of merchandise (defined in quantities or values) that a purchasing organization is allowed to order in a specified period within a season. A purchasing budget [..]

Indicates that a material from the basics area is to be included in the purchasing list.

A method of supplying merchandise to recipients.

Placement into storage of merchandise in conjunction with merchandise

The total quantity of a material to be distributed among individual plants in an allocation table.

Basis for calculating the quantity a plant receives of a particular material. A quota always refers to a plant.

Defines quotas for the characteristic values of a value scale. When you process generic material items in a purchase order or allocation table, the system analyzes the existing quota scales. It uses t [..]

Wholesalers or manufacturers who are granted sales space or shelf space in retail outlets and who offer goods that are not covered by the existing assortment.

Rack-jobber modules are modules for which vendors take responsibility for delivering and presenting materials in stores. A rack-jobber module can only be assigned to one vendor. A vendor can, however, [..]

A value which is calculated by dividing the range of coverage by the replenishment lead time.

Function for taking required measures when delivery dates are overrun.

Redetermination of store quantities for an allocation table or of allocation items, based on an allocation strategy.

Sales quantity for each receipt. The total of all the material quantities entered on a receipt.

Sales value for each receipt. The total of all the material sales entered on a receipt.

Document item to which another document item (called "associated item") is being/has been associated.

A plant can be divided up according to receiving points. Receiving points are the internal locations to which goods are delivered (the first floor, for example). The receiving point is assigned to an [..]

Recipient of goods deliveries. The recipient is either a plant or a customer.

Special form of flow-through. At goods receipt, the system analyzes the data in the distribution and generates deliveries for the recipients. Merchandise is then picked for the deliveries.

Manual price change made without reprinting a ticket.

All the Customizing settings that are necessary for assigning reference articles to a combination of material and plant.

Retailing that does not involve conventional store facilities, including catalog retailing, telemarketing, and home shopping.

Node in the article hierarchy using which relationships with other hierarchy nodes are defined.

A distribution chain is divided up between regional sales managers. The regional sales managers can be used for reporting purposes.

Price which was calculated taking all the conditions relevant to Pricing (taxes, delivery costs, cash discounts or miscellaneous provisions, for example) into account.

Contains the difference of the actual and the tax amounts

Time remaining until shelf life expiration date is reached.

A materials planning procedure in which the requirements calculation data is determined separately from the actual requirements calculation. The follow-on documents are also created separately from th [..]

Type of bonus buy, in which a pre-defined quantity of at least one material defined as a requirement in the combination deal must be purchased before special conditions are granted. (OR-link)

Strategy for procuring and selling goods using several channels that are linked with one another.

Defines whether there is to be a switch from the original material to the follow-up or replacement material.

Method of billing by which all billing documents for a specific period for a particular payer are combined.

Control parameter for reorder point planning and Replenishment.

Method of replenishing stock at stores or customers.

Quantity determined in Replenishment as the quantity to be delivered to a customer.

The replenishment run determines requirements for one or more customers and generates the necessary follow-on documents.

An MRP controller is responsible for procurement operations in a plant / site. A plant / site can be "divided up" among a number of MRP controllers responsible for the procurement of differe [..]

Plants are assigned MRP controller groups, which are responsible for requirements planning. The assignment of an MRP controller group to a plant is dependent on the material involved.

A drastically simplified method of inventory management compared with the MM Inventory Management component. The only figure relevant to Replenishment for a particular material at a particular custome [..]

Sales price that changes as a result of goods movements.

A material order number is the number the customer sees in a product catalog. Normally this differs from the material number in that the catalog code is part of the number. The system can derive the c [..]

Classification of customers (or plants) for the purposes of Replenishment. Requirement groups are created for every material group. They consist of all the customers (or plants) that have the same rep [..]

Method of guaranteeing material availability both internally and externally.

Grouping of materials for assortment maintenance purposes.

Identification of the person responsible for assigning an article hierarchy node.

The model allocation rule has fixed allocation categories defined in it.

Sector in which companies procure, distribute and sell goods, without making any major changes to the product. The only changes are minor and involve the refining or maintainance of the products invol [..]

Part of the analytical application "Profit Center Analytics Retail".

Percentage markup used to determine the retail price.

Retail method of accounting is a method, used principally in Retailing, if, for example, article-specific valuation of goods is too time-consuming and costly. In many cases it is sufficient if a total [..]

A method for establishing sales prices in retail.

Interface connecting an external Retail Revenue Management system to SAP Retail.

Shop floor personnel in a retail store.

The part of the supply chain in which goods are sold to consumers.

Business organization involved in selling goods to the consumer.

An enterprise process area comprising the procurement, storage, distribution and sale of goods. Process scenarios are supported in both the retail and wholesale sectors.

Application that enables retailers to plan, control and coordinate all the business processes in the logistics chain from manufacturer to consumer seamlessly.

An independent business model within the trade industry, for which activities are geared towards individual, singular commercial deals # in contrast to Retail and Wholesale, whose business model aims [..]

The central document in the Global Trade Management solution; it contains a trading business agreement, and is used to control the processing of trading businesses.

A transaction in the Global Trade Management solution with which a trading business process (predefined in Customizing) controlled by the underlying trading contract can be run.

Defines the characteristics of incidental costs incurred with the trading business.

Costs incurred along with the trading transactions.

The transaction count key figure is derived from t-log data by counting the number of distinct transactions in which a transaction count item appears. For example, suppose that a transaction count ite [..]

A transaction count item is a characteristic or a combination of characteristics of a transaction describing the details of a transaction and whose actual values might differ within a given transactio [..]

The return delivery of goods which have already been placed into stock to an external supplier.

Valuation price of a stock transfer.

Multi-trip packaging medium (such as pallets or containers) in which goods can be transported between vendors and customers.

Function that controls the return of, for example, faulty goods after they have been split up among stores.

Transport equipment is a type of returnable transport packaging. It has its own material master record and is assigned to the material to be transported (for example, merchandise is often transported [..]

Change in the stock value of a material at retail. A material may have to be revaluated at retail for the following reasons:

Lower limit of the target stock level in replenishment. The target stock calculated by the forecast is limited by this value.

A group of materials delivered from a vendor at the same time to a particular plant.

Planning of delivery routes.

The planning of weekly customer deliveries from one shipping point to a number of goods recipients and their unloading points on a route. An important feature of the route schedule is the goods issue [..]

Constituent component in a distribution chain (with a sales manager per sales group, for example). Sales groups can be used for reporting purposes. In its capacity as a customer, a store can have a sa [..]

A budget set up in the merchandise and assortment planning process. The purpose of the sales reduction budget is to take into account the sales that will be lost because a certain quantity of the plan [..]

The price billed to the recipient.

Logistical variant of a generic material for the unit of measure in which stock is managed for sale to consumers. Sales are posted from stock in this unit of measure.

Used for value-based inventory management at merchandise category level.

You have the option of creating one merchandise category reference article per merchandise category. It plays no physical part in merchandise management: it is purely a carrier of article information, [..]

Transfer of goods from a store back to the distribution center or to another store.

Generic term to describe the flow of merchandise from a vendor through to the recipient. The merchandise can pass through a distribution center or, as is the case with multi-level merchandise distribu [..]

Check and, if required, adjustment of the quantities in a planned distribution at goods receipt. Merchandise-distribution adjustment is made at goods receipt either automatically with the posting or o [..]

Special form of flow-through. The merchandise is picked in the distribution center using a distribution order. Once the transport equipment (e.g. a pallet) is full, a delivery is generated for the con [..]

Internet Application Component based on the functions of the Product Catalog that enables users to create customer data, enter orders, and conduct credit card transactions.

An independent software package with which store associates can use the ERP system at headquarters directly for many business processes.

Schema which determines a particular price, surcharge or discount or another condition depending on values, quantities, volumes, weight or points.

Process in which an electronic data reading device reads the barcode of a material to register the movement of the material through the cash register.

Upper limit of the target stock level in replenishment. The target stock calculated by the forecast is limited by this value.

Replacement of an original material with a follow-up or replacement material.

A reporting period in which a special assortment limited to a specific period is merchandised and maintained in the information system in a particular way (for example, summer season, Christmas season [..]

Seasonal goods are flagged with a deletion indicator, thus enabling them to be reassigned at the end of a season.

One-time material that is managed once only, within a fixed period of time, such as fashion merchandise for the spring/summer season 2001.

Applications (including fast entry of the purchase order, scheduling, OTB check, and procurement monitoring) which take up the planning process that precedes order processing and which can continue to [..]

A product is placed in a different place to usual, in addition to its usual place. The aim of second placement is to familiarize customers with new products, and increase revenues.

The following data fields are available for separation labels:

Group of single materials or variants of one or more generic materials that is sold as a separate material and as such has a material number, a sales price, and sales price conditions. The components [..]

Grouping of materials subject to the same conditions in the case of subsequent settlement of amounts due under volume rebate arrangements.

List of documents in Agency Business that groups together several incoming invoices for a creditor (invoicing party). A preceding document does not need to exist in the system before a settlement requ [..]

Measures used to increase shelf profitability, taking into account the assortment and cost of preceding logistics activities.

Attaching of price tickets (placement labels) to the shelves on which a material is displayed.

8-digit short form of the EAN (International Article Number).

Indicates the difference between the actual balance amount and system amount.

A profile that combines predefined short or over settings.

German national message format for the transfer of material master data, which is PRICAT-compatible.

Standard material as sold to the customer, for example, a 250 g packet of chocolate chip cookies.

Settlement document in Agency Business used to enter a single incoming invoice.

Vendor order that is processed using cross docking and prepacking, and that contains the same store in each order item.

Source of a planning step link.

A vendor who supplies one or only a few store(s) but not the entire retail company. These stores are therefore also involved in developing a business relationship with this vendor.

Provisional document that is not legally binding.

Settlement of cash register. Actual counting result versus expected amount or system amount.

A material used by the system for converting units of measure and, if necessary, creating settlement documents when conditions refer to a group of articles (such as a vendor sub-range or a setltlement [..]

Material groups can be grouped into hierarchies. Every material group can be assigned to one material group hierarchy level.

Level in a material group hierarchy. Each material group hierarchy level can be assigned to precisely one superior hierarchy level.

Used for value-based inventory management at material group level.

You have the option of creating one material group reference material per material group. It plays no physical part in merchandise management: it is purely a carrier of material information, which can [..]

Substance or object that is traded, or used, consumed or created in production.

Grouping of materials according to their attributes.

Power of store to make own decisions in certain areas.

Type of plant in which goods are presented and sold to consumers.

Data on the characteristics of a store.

Store communication stands for the controlled exchange of business messages between a store-based retailing system and a central system, whereby data remains consistent between the two systems.

Request issued to store for the confirmation of certain data (such as sales volume, stock levels or requirements) for analysis purposes.

Special type of delivery in which the goods recipient is a store.

One of the ways of representing the internal structure of a plant from a retailing viewpoint.

Store master records in their entirety.

Master record for a store.

Request for goods triggered by store.

The functions in a distributed retailing system that are specific to the store in which they are used.

Computer-aided retailing or POS system used locally in the stores of a retail company.

Return of goods from store to distribution center.

File that the SAP System creates during POS outbound processing. If a trigger file exists, it means that all the POS data for a store is ready for transferal.

A planned set date that is monitored by procurement monitoring.

Retail sector (further sectors: food, fresh produce).

Rule used in stock allocation when the stock split among stores is to be allocated in the same proportions, thus allowing the process to be automated.

Planned reductions (or in some cases increases) in the selling price of a material within a particular period.

Definition of time-related target sales quotas for materials and markdowns, in the event that the actual sales figures differ from the fixed target values.

A markdown rule contains planning data relating to a specific period for:

Any combination of products that can be used as a requirement or as a target condition for bonus buys.

Procedure used at head office for planning, monitoring and controlling the allocation of materials to plants.

When an invoice that contains variances is reduced by you, this is accepted by the vendor up to a certain tolerance limit.

Customizing entry that collects one or more tolerance intervals.

Created in the Trading Execution Workbench (TEW) as a key document. The user can enter/maintain the data of the master document directly via the TEW screens.

The difference between the retail price and cost of goods, expressed as a percentage

Special storage bin from which a material is removed to be shipped.

Quantity of goods that has to be made available by a certain date for shipping.

Characteristic taken from the database table defined in the planning step and for which plan data is to be generated.

Source in a planning step link.

Key figure taken from the database table defined in the planning step and for which plan data is to be generated.

The quantity of a purchase order item that is to be delivered. The order cancelation is calculated as follows: Order cancelation = ordered quantity - quantity delivered to date. If the complete PO qua [..]

The time intervals at which a reorder point occurs, as defined in specific rules.

Temporary compilation of materials to be procured from different functions with different order dates.

Combination of organizational levels that specifies the distribution chain, price lists, plant groups, or plant for which a price change made in the Price Planning Workbench is valid.

A model of the task-related functional organizational structure such as department hierarchy, as well as the reporting structure between positions such as purchasing administrator, occupied by holders [..]

A strategy for controlling risks whereby only part of the total budget for a delivery period is released.

The total available budget is shared out amongst OTB buckets, which are characterized by the OTB key.

Monitors budgets and OTB allocation data, among other things.

Redistribution of a budget bucket budget after an OTB check on a purchasing document with a negative result.

The reservation of an OTB amount if insufficient OTB budget is currently available.

Checks available budgets when contracts are created or changed, and provisionally reserves plan budget for the contract or for individual items.

Release of a purchasing document without an OTB check.

OTB reservation is carried out when an OTB-relevant contract is created or changed.

Purchasing document, which when created or changed requires an OTB check.

Revaluation in the stock of a material at retail, whereby only part of the stock is valuated at the new price in a plant.

Amount which is to be declared to the tax authorities and posted as input tax, output tax, withholding tax etc. This amount is subdivided into partial amounts, according to tax rates.

Time frame within which all past processes are included in a calculation.

Unique identifier to identify each pattern. This value is automatically generated by the system.