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Retail

Retail

Reach more customers and deliver individualized experiences your customers can trust by becoming an intelligent enterprise with retail solutions from SAP.

Experience the future of retail

Discover how you can deliver standout retail experiences.

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By 2020, your customers will manage 85% of their relationships online

SAP provides an integrated suite of applications, intelligent technologies, and a digital platform for retailers to pursue innovative business models and deliver relevant personalised customer experiences anywhere, anytime.

See how retail companies are succeeding with SAP

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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 touch points 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 managers
  • Machine learning-supported assortment and option planning and product master data enrichment

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 

Get the facts

80 %

of the retailers in the Forbes Global 2000 are SAP customers.

Forbes

91 %

year-over-year increase in retention rates among retailers with an omnichannel customer engagement management strategy.

Aberdeen Group

Unlock new business value with digital technology

Transform retail merchandise management

Connect your workforce, suppliers, consumers, and the IoT in real time to capture every opportunity and leverage digital transformation for increased business value.

Drive personalised 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. 

Optimise experiences with intelligent technologies

Embrace emerging technologies to gain consumer insights, build trust, and provide the seamless shopping experiences consumers are looking for.

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.

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Learn how you can adopt industry best practices for your retail organisation by using a proven technology framework. Achieve operational excellence in core financial and operational management practices and across your organisation as a whole.

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SAP Customer Activity Repository

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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 SAP Model Company.

SAP Model Company service

Become a digital leader with prepackaged, ready to use services that deliver predefined end-to-end business processes, test cases, configuration guidelines, and project accelerators for your industry. 

What are leading analysts saying about SAP?

SAP is one of the powerhouses driving next-gen retail

Give your customers the e-commerce experience they crave – before they visit your brick-and-mortar location to see products in person. Find out how you can make your shop a multifaceted tool that can help build brand loyalty.

Embrace the future of retail with innovation

Become a best-run midsize retail company

In this IDC InfoBrief sponsored by SAP, discover how midsize retailers are becoming more agile through digital transformation to satisfy rapidly evolving customer demands. 

Get fresh perspectives from retail experts

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Carina Legl
Solution Manager, Retail Industry Business Unit
SAP

The power of sustainable packaging

Explore how retailers and consumer goods companies can raise your packaging-sustainability profile by building recyclable packaging into your business strategy.

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Randy Evins
Senior Principal, Food and Drug, Retail
SAP

A new day at the grocery store

See why it’s essential for the grocery business to adapt to evolving customer needs by becoming a connected digital enterprise through digital transformation.

Matt Laukaitis
SVP and General Manager, SAP Retail
SAP

Technology is rewriting the rules of retail

Discover how some retailers are reaching new heights of brand loyalty and customer satisfaction by embracing technology at the heart of their business. 

Communities and Events

Experience the future of retail

Learn about NRF 2020 and catch up on everything SAP contributed to this year's NRF, including customer presentations, showcases, updates on conscious consumerism, and more.

See retail highlights from SAPPHIRE NOW

Learn about retail announcements, sessions, and conversations from SAPPHIRE NOW, and find out how the Intelligent Enterprise has the potential to further change the retail industry.

Join the SAP for Retail Community

Visit our vibrant community for learning, sharing, and collaborating on all things retail, and find out how SAP is innovating across the retail portfolio of products to address consumer trends and meet retailer needs.

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 organization.

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.

Deliver game-changing experiences with insights into behaviour and demand

Reach more customers and deliver new levels of relevance for the next-gen shopping experience with a connected, real-time intelligent enterprise.

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

Supply Chain

  • Supply Chain Insights
  • Forecasting, Allocation, and Replenishment
  • Omnichannel Inventory and Order Response
  • Warehouse Management
  • Transportation Management
  • Logistics Networks

Omnichannel Customer Experience

  • Customer Insights and Personalisation
  • Store Commerce
  • Digital Commerce
  • Mobile Commerce
  • Omnichannel Order Management
  • Omnichannel Customer Service
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Unlock new business value with digital technology

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Transform retail merchandise management

Connect your workforce, suppliers, consumers, and the IoT in real time to capture every opportunity and leverage digital transformation for increased business value.

Uncover unspoken consumer needs and drive personalised experiences and increased efficiencies across the retail value chain by connecting new technologies with integrated business solutions to create an intelligent enterprise.

Real World Transformation: Highlights for Retail

Consumers expect a new type of individualised experience, where commerce is seamless on any channel, gratification is instant, and technology is invisible.

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.
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SAP S/4HANA Retail for merchandise management and SAP Customer Activity Repository

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SAP S/4HANA Retail for merchandise management

Meet the demands of a digital economy and omnichannel retail with support for all core retail processes. Gain insights into operational retail data and provide users with contextual, real-time information and a simple user interface to make faster decisions and deliver a better consumer experience.

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. 

Embrace the future of retail with innovation

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Become a best-run midsize retail company

In this IDC InfoBrief sponsored by SAP, discover how midsize retailers becoming more agile through digital transformation to satisfy rapidly evolving customer demands. 

Use the Internet of Things to build better relationships with your customers

Find out how new Internet of Things (IoT) technology can help you deliver the intimacy and immediacy that consumers demand. Watch the video, and then download the IDC whitepaper for more information. 

Get fresh perspectives from retail experts

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Matt Wilkinson
General Manager - Consumer Industries, SAP ANZ

Four Ways To Retain Retail Customers In An Omnichannel World

As multichannel models evolve into omnichannel experiences, the abundance of choice is making it difficult for retailers to retain customers.

Paul Dearlove
Paul Dearlove
General Manager - Retail, SAP ANZ

Five Strategies Shaping The Future Of Retail

Discover the strategies retailers must consider to future-proof their success in this new age of digital disruption.

Matt Laukaitis
SVP and General Manager, SAP Retail
SAP

Technology is rewriting the rules of retail

Discover how some retailers are reaching new heights of brand loyalty and customer satisfaction by embracing technology at the heart of their business. 

Communities and Events

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Customer Experience Innovation Forum

Join us in Dallas, TX, November 7-8, 2018, as inspiring individuals from retail, consumer products, and wholesale distribution companies share practical solutions and best practices for solving complex challenges for everything from demand to fulfilment.

Recap for SAPPHIRE NOW

Discover the retail announcements, sessions, and conversations from SAPPHIRE NOW, and learn how the Intelligent Enterprise has the potential to further change the retail industry.

Retail Community

Visit our vibrant community for learning, sharing, and collaborating across all things retail. Join the conversation on how SAP is innovating across the retail portfolio of products to address consumer trends and meet retailer needs.

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