Addressing the different needs of retailer segments such as grocery, specialty, convenience, and fashion, SAP for Retail helps retailers achieve the following business benefits:

• Enhanced efficiency and reduced costs – SAP for Retail provides better visibility and more centralized data storage, helping you to reduce inventory levels, improve shelf productivity, increase product profitability, prolong product life cycles, and reduce labor costs.
• Seamless integration – SAP for Retail delivers an integrated environment for collaboration over the Web, enabling you to integrate sales channels, bring your business to e-marketplaces, and better understand customer preferences.
• Optimized processes – SAP for Retail provides a solid transactional backbone on which to run your business end-to-end. With SAP for Retail, you can facilitate data-sharing and effectively manage inventory, promotions, purchasing, sales, sourcing, human resources, assets, financials, and e-commerce.
• Increased visibility and flexibility – SAP for Retail enables a seamless flow of information across all processes in the retail value chain – as well as access to meaningful data from different systems and real-time visibility into daily business processes – to help you make informed decisions based on actionable information.