Retail

Achieve new levels of customer connection and operational efficiency with AI in retail management software and cloud retail.
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Meeting new challenges in retail

Reimagine your retail operations and create exceptional customer experiences with SAP Business Suite.

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Our retail solutions can help you:

  • Provide customer-centric assortments and omnichannel merchandising

  • Personalise experiences with value-added services 

  • Create transparent and agile digital supply chains 

  • Deliver faster with smart logistics to fulfil from anywhere, anytime 

  • Reimagine stores to blend digital and physical shopping

Customer-centric merchandising

Manage financial, merchandising, supply chain, and store operations with embedded insights and automation.

Transparent and agile supply networks

Predict demand and match procurement, inventory, transportation, and logistics decisions to drive profitability and loyalty.

Sell and fulfil—anywhere, anytime

Increase loyalty and profits with personalised offers, smart order sourcing, and seamless experiences across channels.

Explore how SAP can help your retail business run better

Connect your entire retail business—from planning to operations, sourcing to buying, supply to delivery, marketing to service, and sales to fulfilment.

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Merchandise management

Connect retail processes across the value chain to increase efficiency and improve shopper value.

  • Automate assortments and sync data with suppliers

  • Keep pricing and promotions consistent across channels

  • Monitor store performance with dashboards and live business insights

  • Enable click-and-collect with reliable store fulfilment

  • Boost customer service with real-time inventory, product look ups, and RFID

 

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Customer and transaction insights

Unify customer purchase history and demand to improve omnichannel order management and power your planning applications.

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Sales transfer and audit

Gain insights into product sales and align inventory levels to demand with reliable, accurate sales and inventory data.

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Fashion management

Built-in style-colour-size logic to manage your fashion business, from manufacturing to wholesale and retail.

Competera Pricing Platform

Optimise pricing with an AI platform using real-time competitive and internal data for actionable recommendations.

SimpleMDG

Master data governance with configurable workflows, validations, duplicate checks, and integrations to improve data quality and compliance.

Simplista Item Setup & Change and Data Quality Platform

Accelerate product listings with real-time automation, enhancing sales and margins through efficient data management.

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End-to-end supply chain orchestration

Forecast demand and deliver the right products to the right location at the right time.

  • Understand current and future demand with unified demand forecasting

  • Optimise flow of goods, allocation, and replenishment

  • Meet demand and manage costs with smart allocation and replenishment plans

  • Streamline warehouse and transportation processes for order fulfilment

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Predictive replenishment

Optimise inventory and costs by forecasting demand and using AI to automate calculating and ordering products.

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Order and delivery scheduling

Build more efficient order and delivery schedules with greater flexibility, better outcomes, and simpler integration.

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Warehouse operation management

Keep pace with demand, minimise your costs, and maintain sustainable, risk-resilient warehouse operations.

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Transportation management

Build and maintain a sustainable, risk-resilient retail or fashion supply chain with integrated transportation management.

YDISTRI

Optimise retail inventory through AI-driven store-to-store redistributions, enhancing sales of underperforming stock.

Vistex

Boost profitability by capturing new revenue and collecting owed income through effective vendor program management.

SPS Commerce fulfilment Connector

Easily connect and share EDI transactions with supply chain partners via the world's largest retail network.

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Unified commerce experiences

Deliver smooth and consistent omnichannel experiences that exceed expectations at every touchpoint

  • Boost conversions with AI-driven insights, automation, and personalisation

  • Customise your storefront to match your brand and delight your customers

  • Organise product data for easy discovery and shopping across channels

  • Create tailored offers and flexible, customer-preferred payment options

  • Help shoppers find what they want faster with intelligent search results

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Omnichannel promotional pricing

Apply uniform calculation logic and data to provide consistent promotional pricing across multiple sales channels.

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Retail order orchestration

Connect your sales channels to each of your fulfilment systems, streamlining omnichannel order execution.

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Sourcing and availability management

Maintain product availability while optimising distributed order management plans and syncing inventory with shoppers' needs.

OMS+ Cross-channel Order Management Solution

Streamline complex sales across all channels with a highly configurable, SAP-native order management solution.

MentionMe

Leverage the world's first Customer Advocacy Intelligence Platform to harness the power of word of mouth and advocacy.

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Connected customer data

Gain insights from companywide customer data to improve engagement, conversion, and retention.

  • Visualise customer profiles, relationships, and associated accounts

  • Benefit from ERP for supply chain optimisation and product innovation

  • Uncover customer insights with AI learning models, improving personalised experiences

  • Show respect for customer data privacy by maintaining it during engagements

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Personalised real-time engagements

Build brand loyalty using AI-driven insights to better understand customers and deliver relevant, personalised engagements.

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AI-enhanced customer experiences

Combine business data with proprietary AI models and natural language processing to deliver exceptional customer experiences.

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Circular commerce

Receive, manage, and resell preowned inventory to generate revenue and align with customers’ sustainability values.

Coveo AI Search and Recommendations

Enhance e-commerce with AI-driven search, personalised recommendations, and generative experiences for improved customer engagement.

Mirakl Marketplace Management

Launch and operate a digital marketplace with seamless onboarding, governance, and omnichannel order management.

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Real-time financial analysis

Streamline operations, reduce risk, and enhance SKU profitability with real-time financial data.

  • Make AI-assisted decisions using data and predictive analytics

  • Shorten reporting cycles with automated, AI-driven finance processes

  • Decrease days sales outstanding, bad debt write-offs, and costs

  • Grow confidently with risk mitigation and streamlined compliance standards

  • Get clear cash visibility, manage payments, and mitigate financial risks

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Spend control

Power up procurement to take on continual disruptions and complex challenges with unmatched insights and intelligent tools.

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Travel, expense, and invoice management

Gain visibility into spend—anywhere, anytime—to cut costs, be more efficient, and drive compliance across your organisation.

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Workforce management

Optimise staffing, control labour costs, and stay compliant with automation, real-time insights, and seamless integration.

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Human capital management

Empower your employees with the information, skills, and technology they need to best serve shoppers.

Avalara

Automate sales tax calculations and compliance within SAP Cloud ERP for accurate, efficient tax management.

Text Recruiting Automation and Conversational AI

Enhance candidate engagement and streamline hiring processes with AI-driven text automation and conversational interfaces.

Eightfold Talent Intelligence Platform

Leverage AI to optimise talent acquisition, development, and retention strategies within SAP SuccessFactors.

Discover SAP Business Suite

See how SAP cloud ERP applications, SAP Business AI, and SAP Business Data Cloud come together to deliver exceptional value for your organisation.

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP solutions for retail

Analysts

Four Strategic Snapshots. One Unified Vision.

Get a closer look at how emerging retailers, grocers, fashion brands, and speciality players are rewriting the rules of growth.

Redefining Stores: Seamless Experience for Omnichannel Success

Watch experts from Incisiv and SAP as they reveal how leading retailers are reimagining stores, unlocking data, and scaling service with AI and agility.

Thriving with technology and innovation

In this Oxford Economics report, learn why AI and the cloud are crucial for future success in retail.

Give your team the tools to shape the future

Put AI, data, and applications to work for your retail business with comprehensive packages of SAP solutions tailored to your team’s needs—and ready to extend as you grow.

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Resources

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INFOGRAPHIC

The state of innovation in the fashion industry

Review results of a recent SmartBrief survey to see how your fashion industry peers are innovating to move from concept to consumer with agility.

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WEBCAST AND E-BOOK

Customer webinar series: AI-infused retail

Learn from retail experts on topics such as AI in merchandising, omnichannel, supply chain, and sustainability.

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REPORT

Retail trends report

Learn how retailers are working to bring out their best as consumer demands and innovations are quickly transforming.

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EBOOK

Drive growth this holiday season

Discover key trends shaping the 2025 holiday retail landscape and learn how businesses can drive loyalty, efficiency, and profitable growth this season.

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NEWS

SAP news about the retail industry

Get an overview of the latest trends and challenges impacting businesses as the retail industry evolves.

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SAP for retail offers core applications, data, and AI—delivering an end-to-end, integrated suite that helps retailers manage everything from inventory and supply chain to customer experience and financials.

Learn more about how SAP Business Suite can help you

Want to learn more, explore comprehensive SAP Business Suite packages tailored to your business and easily extended with modular add-ons.

See what’s ahead with SAP road maps

Browse upcoming strategies and advancements across SAP products and industries—and get the insight you need to plan your strategy with confidence.

Frequently asked questions about SAP solutions for the retail industry

Retail management software helps businesses manage their retail operations, including inventory management, order processing, promotion management, customer engagement, and data analytics to enhance decision-making and improve operational efficiency.

SAP enables real-time customer insights, seamless omnichannel shoppingoptimised merchandising, and personalised marketing engagements for better consumer satisfaction.

SAP tracks carbon footprints, enables circular supply chains, and helps retailers manage environmental and social governance (ESG) goals effectively.

SAP integrates AI in retail solutions to optimise supply chains, demand forecasting, demand planning, and merchandising, enhancing efficiency, customer engagement, and data-driven decision-making.

Retailers can request a demo, explore product capabilities, and consult SAP experts for tailored solutions to meet their business needs.

SAP Business Suite for Retail is a fully integrated, modular set of solutions that helps retailers connect and optimise every function across their business, from in-store operations to supply chain management and customer-centric merchandising. It integrates AI, data, and applications into one unified system, creating a continuous cycle of value that drives business transformation.

* Source: SAP market analysis based on Forbes Fortune 2000 and industry specific rankings 2023
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