SAP CAR component overview

Point-of-sale data processing and auditing receives and processes sales data from e-commerce, branches or wholesale. These are checked and aggregated and transmitted to the ERP system.

• Collection of POS transactions
• Aggregation and monitoring of cash transactions
• Basis for other SAP CAR components
• Basis for real-time inventory

The SAP CAR component Unified Demand Forecast automatically creates forecasts for future demands based on historical article sales data and individual demand influencing factors.

• Determining customer needs
• Forecasts by product type
• Forecasts by granularity
• Determining needs at different aggregation levels

Demand Data Foundation is an important and comprehensive component of SAP CAR that can be used to transfer master data from SAP ERP (R/3 or S/4) to SAP CAR and keep it synchronized.

• Database of SAP CAR components
• Support for customer-specific extensions
• Customer-specific interfaces possible
• Connection to multiple ERP systems possible

Merchandise Planning is used to optimize financial purchasing, inventory and assortment planning and serves as the business basis for assortment planning.

• Consistent, end-to-end planning of sales channels
• Facilitating inventory management, purchasing planning and budgeting
• Central repository for all planning activities
• Reducing manual effort

Assortment Planning enables data-based, simple planning of assortments and the associated demand quantity forecasts.

• Planning the future product range
• Planning for product groups and sales locations
• Strategic alignment of product range width and depth
• Determination of expected required quantities

The SAP CAR component Allocation Management enables individual allocation and distribution of product quantities to branches or branch groups, which can be controlled using numerous parameters and KPIs.

• Minimizing stock shortages and excess inventory
• Automation and optimization of the goods distribution process
• Respond quickly to sales trends
• Reduction of transfers between branches

By using the SAP CAR component Replenishment Planning, order plans accurate to the day can be created automatically based on the requirements forecast by UDF, thus realizing automated scheduling.

• Implementation of intelligent replenishment strategies
• Inclusion of spoilage of goods when ordering
• Optimizing costs for orders
• Planning of underground replenishment

With the help of Omnichannel Promotion Pricing, promotional prices can be generated from the PMR offer data and distributed to all relevant surrounding systems/sales channels.

• Consistent prices across all sales channels
• Increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty
• Central price and promotion repository
• Real-time price transmission

Omnichannel Article Availability provides real-time inventory information for stores based on sales data and source information, as well as source information on delivery source and delivery date.

• Real-time inventory of all sales channels
• Click and Collect
• Click and Reserve
• Delivery time optimization through optimal source determination

The SAP CAR component On-Shelf Availability detects the historical and current shelf availability for each store in real time.

• Checking current and past shelf availability
• Avoiding out-of-shelf situations
• Optimization of personnel deployment planning
• Real-time warning of low shelf availability

Promotion Management offers the possibility of centrally creating and managing company-specific promotions.

• Central management of all actions in one system
• Representation of all forms of actions possible
• Forecasting action quantities using UDF
• Easy operation through optimized Fiori apps