Queries on PO for RMS 13.1.1 and Oracle Financials

Hi All,
I need inputs related to below queries
1.High level understanding of Retail stock ledger,Retail sales audit and Retail invoice matching modules.
2. Accounting events that happen in this modules and how your expecting data for the same.
3.Retail stock ledger and sales audit modules interfaces data directly to General Ledger module.i would like to know the kind of data it interfaces,frequency and level of Detail.
4.At the time of interfacing the data to Oracle Financials,will there be any validations happening and how do you handle errors.
5.In the Retail invoice matching module,if i am not wrong only sucessfully matched invoices will be interfaced to staging tables.When i import those invoice information, will invoice get created in AP automatically or do we need to manually punch in the data.
5.How do you handle Returns to suppliers.
6.At what level PO/Invoices will be raised,is at DC or store level.
7.How is accounting done for the below scenarios
A. When PO is raised
B. When you receive Items
C. When invoices are recorded and matched
D. When you do Returns
E. Rebates or Discounts
I would be very thankfull if you can provide the required details.
Thanks,
Sushanth

Hi Sushanth,
See the merchandise integration guide and the operation guide of RMS (pretty good for a starter, though not more than a glimpse.)
Usually a specialized consulting firm will have the people with the experience and knowledge of these areas at hand to assist you.
I think if you really want to have these questions answered, you must hire a specialist consultant - I don't expect the forum to fill in those gaps for you, but who knows.
Also the CRP of an implementation project will deal with some of your questions, the CRP being lead by a subject matter expert (SME).
Best regards,
Erik

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