POS and inventory management suggestions?

I own and operate a gift shop and wanted to use my iPad, iPhone, and MacBook Pro to ease the burden of inventory management. Any suggestions for a POS system that would help manage what comes in and out of the shop?

Check out NCR Silver. App based POS with back office that tracks inventory levels in real-time. Have visibility to quantity on hand, know how many days of supply are remaining based on past sales history.
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Is there any standard SAP Report available where I can get all the information related to Purchasing and Inventory Management in one.
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I don't know any. We have one Z or if you want you can make a simple query.
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Hi,
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Type of invoce verification and inventory management

Please tell me what is type of Logistic invoice verification and Inventory management???

Dear,
You are asking for what LIV in MM??
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Documentation on SD and Inventory management     OSS notes

Hi experts,
                    Can anyone give me real time scenarios on SD and Inventory management.
Please forward me any documents on OSS NOTES.
Please forward them to my mail: <removed>

This "HOW-TO" PDF document explain in detail how to manage invnetory amangement scenarios...and how to use the standard datasources
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f83be790-0201-0010-4fb0-98bd7c01e328
I hope this helps you
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Integration SMP 3.0 and Inventory Manager 3.2 / 4.0

Hello,
I have a Little doubt. For an Implementation of Inventory Manager after I have installed/configured the SMP 3.0 or SMP 2.3, in order to actívate the Agentry for Inventory Manager, Do I have to install the Inventory manager server (Agentry Server) which I had downloaded with Inventory Manager Package from services marketplace? or Do I have to install Agentry server which came with SMP, and after that just configure the deployment package as application within the SMP? ... I'm a Little bit confused because I think these deployment files (bundle) are on the agentry server that came with the Inventory Manager package (that is why the question was raised) and if I do not install the Inventory Manager Server I wont be able to get this bundle. Another questions is: In case the inventory manager server must be installed in order to make the agentry / SMP integration work for this standard app, If after this implementation We want to develop /configure another agentry apps, Can I do this with the agentry server installed for Inventory Manager (Inventory Manager Server) and not the "generic" one that came with the SMP?
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Mariana

Hi Manju Venkatesha & Stephen Streeter
Let me see if I understood what you guys answered me on this post...
1.- The agentry server is built on SMP 3.0 & SMP 2.3 and the standalone server on SMP 2.3 is only configure for development. Now, I have a another question about this...
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2.- Manju, We can install either IM 3.2 or IM 4.0, the thing is we are reviewing what versión is better to implement So I need to clarify my doubts for implementation process on both versions. The steps you mentioned put me in context and gives me some lights about the process, now, when you wrote: "Download Inventory Manager from service marketplace (it comes exe file)", is this the mobile server called "Inventory Manager 3.2.0 Sever" for IM 3.2 / "SAP Inventory Manager 4.0.1 Deployment" for IM 4.0?. The confusion raised here because the wizard for the mobile server that comes with mobile application implementation package, it is almost the same of Agentry standalone server, besides the SAP Backend information, it's pretty much the same wizard. In fact I think it will create a file system directory similar to standalone agentry server... So, my question about this is:
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The SMP 3.0 which has the agentry component integrated and does not need a standalone one will need the "mobile server", does it? (exe file within SAP Inventory Manager 4.0.1 Deployment I guess or Inventory Manager 3.2.0 Server) and what about if I need to customize something on IM 4.0? The changes will be publish directly to the agentry component within SMP 3.0?
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Will MIM (Merchandize and inventory management) work with SAP AFS / SAP POS

We are implementing SAP AFS ERP at the head office and SAP POS at the retail stores.
We want to implement the MIM module for inventory management at retail store level. Does MIM work in conjunction with SAP AFS. A consultant was suggesting that MIM works only with SAP Retail and no other vertical SAP solution.
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MIM is linked to IS Retail, not to AFS.
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the APD does`nt be a useful tool for modeling a performant
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upload the extracted data from the psa into a data layer
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build a infoset that joins the data
Step 3.
build one query to reducing data and make two copies of ist
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build a useful data mining model
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link the uploaded data into a infoset ore write back into a standard ods
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query the data
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i would like to request you to kindly share the Q&A db for inventory management and warehouse management with me as i need it for preparing the AS IS documentation.(preferably automotive industry but if not then even standard Q&A db is fine).
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Now QADB will not help to map the clinets requirement. Instead of QADB get AS IS information form Coreusers... thats best practice now....
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Assets management and inventory Management.

This may be simple situation often encountered in industries. The need is to manage an item as an asset as well as manage inventory functions of purchasing, receiving, physical inventory and issue of these assets to customers as inventory materials. The materials are also needed to accounted for depreciation functions.
Can experts throw some light on the kind of best practice process flows that we could often consider.
Thanks in advance for contributors.

Good questions: I think I need to explain the full scenario.
This is for a health care industry. The intention is to purchase the materials as assets and these come from different vendors, but often, it could be the same material. The current thinking is as follows:
1. Forecast the reqiuirement of the materials according the different sizes. For example : small, medium and large. Each of these sizes could come from different vendors with different model numbers, but are groupd under the sizes.
2. Based on the forecast probably using APO, the materials are purchased in ERP for these sizes. But we still need to carry the vendor model number as part of the attributes of the materisl. Here there seems to be three options.
- One is to use Material classification and use capture the model number of the vendor.
- second is to utilise the Form Fit Function functionality of SAP IS for A&D.
- Third potential option might be to use Batch management and capture manufacturer number in batch characteristic.
Once the materials are purchases these are settled to assets and then there is a need to manage their inventory as the requirement is to utilise Logistic execution functionality including sales, delivery and goods issue functionality. In addition the materials also need to be transferred between different SAP plant locations.
There is also a challenge to manage the requirement as more often, the need is for just the size. but sometime there is a requirement for a specific model within a particular size.
I am not too sure whether there is an absolute need to manage seralisation for individual material numbers, but from asset management perspective, is there a need> Pl clarify
Any comments / suggestions on the above is very welcome.
Appreciate your time and thinking and value contribution.
Venkatesh

Tracking sales, customer retention and Inventory management

Hi,
I own a t-shirt screen printing business and am looking for a solution to help me track sales, categorize customer information and manage inventory. I'm still relatively new to numbers 09 so I'm trying to determine if this program can help me achieve my desired end result.
I conduct two different types of business; wholesale printing and online sales.
I offer wholesale printing for local companies such as pizza shops, churches, family events etc. They typically have a design prepared and order 50+ t-shirts at a wholesale price. Pricing is determined by a lot of different factors such as; amount of t-shirts ordered, number of colors in print, number of print locations.
Online sales, refers to a line of t-shirts I created myself and sell directly to customers. I sell through multiple online mediums such as; etsy, ebay and my dot.com. Each of the sites I sell through has a different set of fees associated with the transaction. For example, when selling through etsy; for each transaction etsy takes a % of the sale, plus a predefined insertion fee for posting the listing. When a customer is making a purchase through etsy they have two payment options; etsy's direct check out, or to pay with paypal. When the customer opts to pay through etsy's direct check out; there is a % fee etsy charges, as well as a predefined processing fee (in addition to the original % fee and insertion fee I mentioned above). If a customer through etsy opts to pay with paypal while checking out, then there is a different % fee as well as processing fee that paypal will charge. Also, both etsy's and paypals checkout methods charge a different % fee and processing fee if the package is being shipped to an international destination. Ebay's fee structure is similar to etsy ie; a % fee and insertion fee, as well as a seperate % fee and processing fee that paypal charges.
Wholesale printing only makes up about 10% of my business so I can pretty easily track those sales as is. Retail sales makes up the other 90% of my business and has become difficult to manage.
Etsy, ebay and paypal all keep transaction details that can be downloaded in csv files. In the past I have found it difficult to organize all that information and make sense out of it because its coming from multiple sources. I'd like to have one program to track all my online sales and customer information and present in in a nice neat fashion.
That's where a program like numbers 09 comes into play, hopefully. To keep track of blank inventory I would like to organize and keep track of all the different blanks shirts i have in stock. Say for example I print on a blank gildan brand shirt that is called GL2000, I would like to have a category for the GL2000 as well as a sub category for the different colors of that shirt I have (blue, black, brown, green etc.), as well as another sub category for the different sizes (small-5xl) available in each of the different colors. I would like to have a separate spreadsheet listing all the finished goods (printed shirts), along with the sizes available for that design on hand. Then, when I print new shirts and enter them into the finished goods spreadsheet, I would like it to subtract that amount from the corresponding blank shirt spreadsheet. For example; I have some designs I print on brown shirts and I would need to create a formula that knows that that particular design is on a brown shirt and not green or some other color. That way as I print more shirts I will have a running inventory of both finished goods as well as what I still have left in stock as blank shirts.
Then I'd like a spreadsheet for me to enter in all the relevant sales data as it comes in. I was envisioning entering the data into that spreadsheed right as I'm shipping out the order. It makes perfect sense because all the information I'd like to track and organize is readily available on the screen when I am creating the shipping label. I would like the spreadsheet to keep track of; Sale date, ship date, item sold, item size, buyer id, transaction id, first name, last name, address, city, state, zip, country, price, coupon (if used), shipping, total (price + shipping), how much the shipping label cost, site item was sold on (ebay or etsy), etsy fee if sold on etsy (% of price + predefined insertion fee), ebay fee if sold on ebay (% of price + predefined insertion fee), refund (if applicable... also if a refund is issued, it would have to automatically adjust the total as well as fee, after entered), sales tax (would only apply if they entered the sate I do business out of in the state column), ebay processing fee, (for etsy transactions) a checkbox to inform the spreadsheet if the etsy transaction was paid through paypal or direct etsy check out (because of the different fees associated with each.) then a corresponding cell with the correct processing fee, it would also have to take into account which country the item was being shipped to and apply the correct fee associated with that country for either of the check out methods; etsy or paypal, then a total after all fees, then possibly a total of all fees paid.
Like I mentioned before, I'm relatively new to numbers 09. I have made some progress in creating the spreadsheets but feel there is a steep learning curve when defining some of the formulas and functions of the program. I'm still not sure if numbers 09 will be able to do all that I need it to do in the end, so I wanted to ask if it is possible before I continue working on it.
Any help would be appreciated. Are there any books I could study to learn the program better? I just picked the apple pro training series for iwork 09 but found the numbers section was mainly for beginners and didn't go over some of the more complex functions I'd like to learn about. I searched for other training material but couldn't find any.
If numbers 09 isn't a suitable program for what I'm trying to accomplish, any suggestions on what program to use? I've looked in to quick books but wasn't sure If I could do something similar with numbers. Thanks for taking the time to read.

Thanks a lot Mahesh for your reply. I just tried your answer: I've assigned the CRM Service User license to the user, on top of the CRM Sales user license. But still same problem.
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Dublication of record in a row and inventory management

Hello! all
i'm student of Msc(cs) and i'm working on my final project which is based on inventry system. i manage medicine record i used 3 tables one is "inventory record" fields are(med_id, med_name,lic_no,total_inv) 2nd is "purchase record" fields are(pur_id, med_id,pur_quntity, unit_price) and 3rd is "issued record" fields(iss_id,med_id.iss_quntity etc)
now i want to take total inventory in "total_inv" field where as issued record is on different form and inventry record and purchase record is on same form. plz solve my this problem.
and 2nd problem is that it take dublicate of recordin one row like i enter this tipe of data:
(med_id , med_name, lic_no)
values
(1, abc, 1234)
and next time i enter
(2, abc, 2334)
system save this value
i want to if he\her press save button system ask user "you are entering same value in "med_name" field do you want to save this?".
Plz Plz sovle my these beggest problems
Edited by: user10493113 on Dec 2, 2008 11:42 PM

Your second problem is a bit tricky if you want to put a check at the form level itself,
i.e. if you want to hold the user at the med_name item itself if he enters a duplicate name
anyway, if that is your requirement,
the solution is dirty and it requires a lot of work. It also limits the mouse navigation of the user:-
the first you will have to set the Mouse Navigation Property of the form module to item.
Then on the MED_NAME item, write a KEY-NEXT-ITEM trigger,
there, write the code
If Duplicate_check Then
message('duplicate name');
raise form_trigger_failure;
else
--check in database
end if;
Here, duplicate_check is a program unit:-
FUNCTION Duplicate_Check RETURN BOOLEAN IS
flag number(1) := 0;
     code varchar2;
     cur_rec number(2);
     f_name varchar2(50) := :system.current_form;
BEGIN
     code := :MED_NAME;
     cur_rec := To_Number(:SYSTEM.Cursor_Record);
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                    If To_Number(:SYSTEM.Cursor_Record) = cur_rec Then
                              Null;
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                              If :MED_NAME = code then
                                        flag := 1;
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                                        Null;
                              End If;
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          Go_Item('MED_NAME');
          set_form_property(f_name,validation,property_true);
          If flag = 1 Then
                    Return TRUE;
          Else
                    Return FALSE;
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END;
this check will have to be put in a host of other triggers like Key-Up, Key-Down, Key-Scrlup, Key-ScrlDown..
Like I said, nasty

Asset accounting and Inventory management.

Hi gurus, I need your advice.
We want to control our inventory and our fixed assets in order to be able to match the amounts between both modules. The main difficulty is that not all the items we register into the inventory module generate a fixed asset (we have sixty thousand inventory items and seven thousand fixed assets).
The way I have thought to solve it is the next: currently we have and asset class per Fixed Asset GL Account. I want to create two asset classes per GL Account, one for the fixed assets that are into the Inventory Module and other for the Fixed Assets that aren´t in the Inventory Module.
Do you think it is ok or do you have a better/easier solution??
Many thanks in advance.
BR//Alberto.

Since you mention there is an inventory module, and there is a fixed assets module - consider that the two are very different.
Inventory is merchandise for sale. When its costs are recognized, those costs are recorded as costs of sale or costs of goods sold. Inventory can be purchased or it can be constructed, but when we sell the items to customers we recognize both the revenue and the costs at the same time. The gross margin is the net gross profit or loss. Inventory has no depreciation.
Fixed assets are capital assets used by the organization to do the things the firm is in the business of doing. The tools used to build/construct inventory are capital assets (used in more than one year). Fixed assets will not be sold as a main purpose of the organization. Only inventory is sold as a main purpose of the organization to earn a profit. Since fixed assets benefit the organization for more than one year, we spread the costs over all those years in which revenue is generated by the fixed asset use. This is the matching principle to recognize costs when the revenue is recognized. To achieve this, we use the AFAR and AFAB depreciation process to spread that APC value across all periods that will benefit from the "tools."
I think you are already using MM for your inventory module. There can be different classes of inventory just as there can be different classes of fixed assets in SAP. Each class has its own reconciling account. Each is its own subsidiary ledger/listing of items that sum to the balance in the reconciling account. Subledger transactions will automatically update the reconciling account balances for the class - whether we are talking fixed assets or inventory.
I hope this can help, since it sounded like the terminology was confusing. Neither SAP or accounting is simple. Regards

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