Posdm

SAP POS Data Management
SAP POS Data Management improves decision making at all levels by gathering facts and figures from your retail outlets and making them available throughout your enterprise.SAP POS DM is delivered with BI Content releases and uses SAP BI as its operational platform. SAP POS DM consists of SAP POS Inbound Processing Engine (PIPE) and POS Analytics.
Precise POS datamanagement can help you reduce your inventory carrying costs and gain critical insight into customer buying patterns and behavior.
The SAP for Retail solution portfolio supports with a cost effective,comprehensive Pos data management solution that enables "trickle-feed" processing. Cash register sales data from individual store locations can be transmitted to back-office systems on a regular basisthroughout the business day. This application is called POS DM.
With POS DM you
• can cleanse and audit your Pont-of-Sales transactions
• can see which products sell the strongest in all of itsregions
• gauge price sensitivity across different markets or different areas within the market
• evaluate the effectiveness of promotions
• compare and contrasts how products sell when they arepromoted versus being sold at everyday prices

Sales data is uploaded in a predefined cycle and mapped in such a way that it can be processed by SAP POS DM. The data is then aggregated and passed fromPOS DM to SAP Retail and SAP NetWeaver uo to the last transaction. POS DM enables rapid inbound processing with regard to master data and duplicate checks.
POS DM does not, however, simply forwarddata but rather prepares it especially for subsequent processing. The preparatory work includes data cleansing, that is, improving the data quality by eradicating simple errors such as incorrectarticle references. At this stage already, data can be aggregated for high performance further processing. The SAP POS Data Management application is based on the SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence...