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Term Definition
PoSDM
Point of Sale Data manager. SAP provided application to manage
the PoS
inbound / outbound data structures for integrating meaningfully
to ERP /
external parties (banks , vendors etc)
Profiles
In this IMG activity, you create the Customizing profile for the
PIPE. The
profiles are variants of Customizing for the PIPE. For each
store you can
decide which profile to use. In most other Customizing tables
for PIPE you
can create different settings for each profile, as
necessary.
PoS Analytics
The Business Content for POS Analytics allows you to upload POS
data
efficiently to SAP BW using an inbound interface and to create
reports for
the following areas:
Store/Article Analytics
Event Analytics
Cashier Analytics
PoSDM IMG
Transaction Code /POSDW/IMG
Logical group of transactions in order to configure the PoSDM
system as
per customer specific business process.
Store
Customizing
In this IMG activity, you make settings as needed for the
profile used for
each store. If there is no entry for a store, the standard
profile defined in the
general settings is used.
Tasks
Tasks are operations on the POS transaction data. The tasks have
a status
that indicates whether they are completed, incorrect, cancelled
or refused,
and so on.
Task groups
The task groups are used in the transaction types. By doing this
you
determine which data is relevant for which tasks. Data that is
not relevant is
removed when the POS transactions are grouped.
Rules
A rule consists of a condition and actions that are carried out
depending on
whether the condition is fulfilled or not. These rules are
executed
separately for each POS transaction and task.
Aggregation
Methods
The POS transactions are first grouped according to the
aggregation period
set in the aggregation method. The task in then processed by
group. An
example of this is the sales in a store by the hour to build up
a time
sequence which is exact to the hour.
Transaction
type
Used to capture the general store POS system transaction types,
i.e. Sales,
Goods Receipt, Goods Issue etc
Type groupUsed to group sales types, i.e. Sales, Sales to
Employees, Tax-exempt,
Cancellations, Gift Certificate, Returns, etc.
Category of
sales item
Captures detailed sales items, i.e. Sales, Shipping, Sales to
Employees,
Returns from Employees, Tax-exempt Sales, Tax-exempt Returns,
Sales of
Gift Card, Sales of Gift Certificate, etc.
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Type group for
discount
Used for grouping of discounts, i.e. Coupons, Promotion
Discounts,
Member Discounts, Local Discounts, Staff Discounts, etc.
Discount
Category
Used for detailed discount types belonging to discount groups,
i.e. Store
Coupon, Manufacturer Coupon, Promotion, etc.
Category
group of taxes
Used for grouping tax types, i.e. Local Tax, Regional Tax,
Federal Tax,
VAT, etc
Means of
payment
Means by which payments are tendered, i.e. Gift Certificate,
Cash, Check,
Credit Card, Invoice, etc
Financial
movements
Detailed financial transactions, i.e. Pay-In transaction, Cash
Payment
Order, Pay-Out Transaction, Wages, etc.
Goods
movements
Detailed goods movements belonging to Goods Movement groups,
i.e.
Goods Receipt from DC, Goods Receipt from Another Store, Goods
Issue
to Another Store, Goods Issue due to Breakage, etc.
Reasons
Reasons for the various transactions, i.e. Discounts, Returns,
Cancellations,
Pay-In Transactions, Pay-Out Transactions, etc.
