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

  • Personalize experiences with value-added services 

  • Create transparent and agile digital supply chains 

  • Deliver faster with smart logistics to fulfill 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 fulfill—anywhere, anytime

Increase loyalty and profits with personalized 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 fulfillment.

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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 fulfillment

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

 

SAP application

Customer and transaction insights

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

SAP application

Sales transfer and audit

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

SAP application

Fashion management

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

WEBINAR
SAP Business Suite Webinar Series

See how AI-enabled ERP with Business Suite helps consumer and retail industry CIOs empower their business with AI, data, and applications.

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Resources

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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.

Explore our retail innovations

See product road maps, new solutions, and planned innovations for retail.

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 shoppingoptimized merchandising, and personalized 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 optimize 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 optimize 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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