In retail, you benefit when your core business processes – from planning and buying to distribution and sales – incorporate industry expertise in the form of best practices. As competition intensifies, and meeting customer needs becomes tougher and tougher, speed and accuracy are vital business necessities.

SAP for Retail solutions include SAP Best Practices, providing preconfiguration settings to handle your core business processes. This means that SAP is delivering to you ready-to-use business practices that reflect 35+ years of SAP Best Practice domain expertise. With SAP solutions, you can become operational quickly with a system configured to meet your needs for:

• Merchandising
• Procurement
• Distribution
• Sales
• Financials

Experience You Can Count On. Results You Can Measure.

With SAP Best Practices, you can take advantage of proven industry best practices without reinventing the wheel. Our best practices provide a solid foundation that can be adapted to meet your own unique processes and changing business needs. SAP Best Practices includes:

• Complete preconfiguration settings that let you run retail processes with minimal installation effort and business disruption
• Extensive reusable documentation that you can use for self-study, evaluation, project team, and end-user training. As you add new associates, stores, and distribution centers, SAP Best Practices provide a great training facilitator for new users.
• A clear methodology based on a logical step-by-step process

Preconfigured software based on SAP Best Practices provides midsize retailers with fast implementation, at low risk. You can take advantage of SAP's depth of knowledge and experience in retail, as well as a breadth of software that covers you from merchandising to financials and accounting. Best of all, the solutions free you to do the work you're best suited for – managing, building, and succeeding with your retail business.

Fast Deployment. Predictable Cost of Ownership.

For businesses that require ultra-fast implementations, SAP offers the SAP Business All-in-One for Retail solution. With SAP Business All-in-One, you can capitalize on a solution that supports streamlined business processes – and has been optimized for fast deployment and a predictable cost of ownership.