BY 2020, YOUR CUSTOMERS WILL MANAGE 85% OF THEIR RELATIONSHIPS ONLINE
Explore how our current, upcoming, and planned innovations help retailers become immersed in consumer lives through trusted experiences, delivered profitably and at scale.
Omnichannel Marketing
- Single Customer View
- Consent-Based Marketing
- Marketing Execution
Customer Centric Merchandising
- Master Data Management for Merchandising
- Merchandise and Assortment Planning
- Merchandising Intelligence
- Product Design and Development
- Pricing and Promotions
Procurement Excellence
- Indirect Buying
- Invoice and Payables Management
- Merchandise Buying
- Private Label Management
- Sourcing and Contract Management
- Supplier Management
Digital Supply Chain
- Forecasting, Allocation and Replenishment
- Omnichannel Inventory and Order Response
- Track & Trace plus Logistics Networks
- Transportation Management
- Warehouse Management
- Yard Logistics
Omnichannel Customer Experience
- Commerce Management and Personalization
- Retail Store Management
- Omnichannel Sales Order Management
- Customer Service
- Customer Experience Management
Unlock new business values with digital technology
Drive personalized experiences
Uncover unspoken consumer needs and increased efficiencies across the retail value chain by connecting new technologies with integrated business solutions to create an intelligent enterprise.
Optimize experiences with intelligent technologies
Embrace emerging technologies to gain consumer insights, build trust, and provide the seamless shopping experiences consumers are looking for.
SAP ROAD MAP FOR RETAIL
Explore how our current, upcoming, and planned innovations help retailers become immersed in consumer lives through trusted experiences, delivered profitably and at scale.
Current release highlights
- Consistent pricing and offers seamlessly delivered across touchpoints as a global cloud service
- Transactional data in the cloud for digital customer receipts, retail analytics, and supplier data exchange
- RFID-enabled stock transfer for store
- Machine learning-supported assortment and option planning and product master data enrichment managers
Upcoming innovations
- Headless commerce cloud with microservices extension factory
- Promotion-driven store allocation and automated store replenishment with cost-optimal ordering
- Improved demand forecast and assortment planning with real-world data
- Logistics business networks for partner collaboration, scheduling, and visibility
Future plans
- Leverage automation, embedded intelligence, and cloud scalability across all retail processes
- Optimise order fulfilment with networked-distributed order orchestration
- Integrate retail planning applications in the cloud
- Embed experience feedback into brand, product, customer experience, and workforce management
FIND RETAIL SOFTWARE TAILORED TO YOUR NEEDS
Gain real-time customer and point-of-sale insights, reach shoppers across channels, and get the visibility to optimise everything from merchandising to the supply chain.
SAP S/4HANA Retail for merchandise management
SAP Customer Activity Repository
Improve demand forecasting and maximise promotion and assortment effectiveness with the SAP Customer Activity Repository application. This unified data repository collects multichannel customer and point-of-sale data in real time, prepares it for analysis, and makes it ready for consumption by other applications.
JUMP-START YOUR TRANSITION TO AN INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE
Accelerate implementation time, reduce risks, and get ready for your digital journey with the SAP Model Company service for Core Retail.
SAP Model Company for Core Retail
Become a digital leader in the retail industry with a prepackaged, ready to use service that delivers predefined end-to-end business processes, test cases, configuration guidelines, and project accelerators for your industry.
MANAGE YOUR RETAIL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE-WIDE
Explore our comprehensive solutions for all business processes across all industries to find the solutions you need to build a connected business.
Human Resources
Simplify HR processes and engage your workforce to drive better business results, empower your workforce, and develop your talent.
Finance
Bring together financial processes with automated, real-time analytics, and translate them into forward-looking business insight across the entire organisation.
Analytics
Take advantage of in-depth data analysis, predictions, and processing of complex events, and combine data from a variety of sources into one, integrated platform.
Cloud and Data Platforms
Leverage business applications that use the latest technology advancements – including the SAP HANA platform, cloud, mobile, and more.
Internet of Things (IoT)
Deploy high-velocity, intelligent edge IoT applications using business and technology services.