Industries · Retail & Consumer Goods
SAP Business One for retail and consumer goods
Consumer goods companies that sell to stores, online and sometimes over their own counter need one inventory, one price book and one set of books behind all of it.
- The cycle
- Buy to a plan · Receive and price · Label the shelf · Sell on every channel · Run promotions · Replenish · Handle returns
- Alongside SAP Business One
- Price Labels, B2B eCommerce, Integrations, Inventory Counting
The operating lifecycle
One stock figure serving the shelf and the storefront
Selling wholesale and direct at the same time is where most retail-facing distributors come unstuck.
Stage 01
Buy to a plan
Purchasing against seasonal demand and promotional calendars rather than against last month.
What breaks as you grow
Buying for a promotion that the inventory system knows nothing about.
Handled by
Requirements
What matters in retail and consumer goods
One inventory across channels
Store, warehouse and online availability from the same stock records.
Retail and wholesale pricing side by side
Different price lists for different channels, maintained once.
Promotions
Period pricing and deals applied consistently online, in store and on wholesale orders.
Barcodes and labels
Item barcodes, shelf labels and price changes handled from SAP Business One data.
Point of sale
SAP Customer Checkout connected to SAP Business One for companies that sell over the counter.
Online orders into SAP Business One
Storefront and B2B orders created as SAP Business One documents, not exported and re-keyed.
Recommended architecture
What a retail & consumer goods operation usually ends up running
Derived from the lifecycle above rather than picked from a catalogue: these are the systems its stages actually call on.
- CoreSAP Business OneFinancials, inventory, pricing, purchasing and orders in one system of record.Overview
- Layer 01Price LabelsSee it
- Layer 02B2B eCommerceSee it
- Layer 03IntegrationsSee it
Every layer connects through supported interfaces, reading and writing the same records. None of them keeps its own copy of your prices.
Mapping
Where the work usually goes
- 01Retail customers order by email and phone.B2B portal with their pricing and history.
- 02Price changes take a week to reach the shelf.Price Label Printing from SAP Business One price lists.
- 03Online store stock is wrong.Integration between the storefront and SAP Business One.
- 04Counter sales are rung up outside the ERP.SAP Customer Checkout connected to SAP Business One.
Questions
Retail & Consumer Goods questions
Next step
Talk to someone who has configured SAP Business One for your kind of operation.
Bring your order flow, your inventory headaches and your reporting wish list. We will tell you what SAP Business One does out of the box and what we would build around it.