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POS Integration Pro®is a powerful tool that was developed to address the arduous, costly and time consuming process of mapping POS Systems to SAP®. It is the #2 support issue after SAP® Retail Go-Live. The Converter can handle almost any inbound file format and converts it to POSDM specific structure. With up to a potential 75% reduction in cost to implement POS and integrate with SAP, it has been a critical success factor with many of our clients.

  • After you go-live, our product can eliminate the need for outside consulting help when mapping new transactions
  • The product allows the user the capability to configure and map POS transactions as they need to, lowering the total cost of ownership
  • The tool can handle almost any inbound file format and converts it to POSDM specific structure
  • Scalable, currently being utilized by retailer with over 1700 stores

PO Workbench Pro®

Change + Transport Manager Pro®was developed because, in most cases, transport management in SAP is accomplished by logging onto multiple systems depending on your landscape. Change and Transport Management allows the user to log into one place and centrally manage all transport requests in one place!

  • Workflow capabilities for approval process
  • Authorization controlled which enables Developers, Functional Owners, Managers, and Super-Users can only access and approve relevant change requests and transports
  • Automatic status updates on demand and email notification
  • Enabled with Document upload/download capabilities as attachments for reference to test scripts and documentation
  • Integration with Solution Manager which leverages ChaRM functionality

Merchandise Hierarchy Reclass Pro®

Web Article Creation®This is where Master Data begins. And with that, errors and missteps by a user missing data entry or incorrectly adding data can cause many issues downstream. To help the user reduce errors, improve health of master data, and become more efficient, utilize Zaffera Article Creation for SAP®. Utilizing a single and standardized template built in Adobe® or Web Dynpro®, we have made it simple and easy for the user to use and eliminate the possibility that a critical data element is missed.

  • Single article creation capability for the central master data team, buyers, suppliers and store personnel depending on your specific need
  • Simple and lean ADOBE or Web Dynpro user interface
  • Utilization of reference articles

Document Management System® is an application that allows classification, management and archival of documents based on your company and directory structure. The tool can be used to store invoices, purchase orders, payment advice, store plans, store pictures and configuration elements simply and easily!

  • The scanned documents and attachments are uploaded by the end user and moved into the correct classification directory
  • Approval workflow capabilities ,documents are approved before being available for retrieval by the user community
  • The application is based on SAP Portals, Java Web Dynpro and Adobe Forms
  • Documents linked through standard SAP transactions

HR Workflow®was built to allow ultimate flexibility for the user without all the paper!! This application that is based on SAP Workflow allows submission of documents to the local HR administrator who then does the physical verification of these electronic documents.

  • The approval process is integrated before submission to HR
  • Audit trail is maintained to comply with regulatory requirements so that approval actions can be recalled at any later point of time

Advanced Retail Store®was developed alongside clients with deep store operations experience to simplify the user experience at the store level. With access to real time data on a day to day basis, your store teams can now make more timely decisions and spend less time in the back office and more time in the front of the store assisting customers. User friendly UI provides your store personnel with an easy tool to manage Purchase Orders, Returns, Goods Receipt, Shelf labels and tags, Store Orders, Reversals, Physical Inventory, Transfers; all the critical store metrics needed to run the business.

  • Very simple to use at store thus reducing the need for complex training. Built by people with a store operations background
  • No horizontal and vertical scrollbars, efficient real estate use, quick response time, sort and filter capabilities 
  • Adjustable screen configuration 
  • Scalable, client with over 700 stores with very high volume using today

Advanced Retail Handheld Transactions®is very similar to Zaffera Advanced Retail Store, but specifically developed for stores using handheld devices. Imagine a world where your store managers and employees can be free to walk the floor to help customers and still have access to back end operations right from the front of the store? The time spent in the back of the store mining through data and spending less time with the customer could be over! The results will be improved customer satisfaction, increased conversion and ultimately an increase in sales and profitability.

 

Group/Bonus Buy Maintenance Pro®

POSDM/BI Recovery Tool Pro®The worst case scenario for a company. There have been cases at clients where data was mistakenly deleted or corrupted, resulting in loss of critical financial and sales data from the BI delta queue!! This ABAP/NetWeaver based tool was created to recover POS sales data from the POSDM system on demand. Eliminate days and possibly weeks of work with issues that could involve MILLIONS of records. In addition, some of our clients use the application to act as a reconciliation tool for POSDM Sales to BI loads during implementations, enhancements or support.

Implementation Assistant Pro® was created to simplify the tracking and management of your project. Implementations can be very complex, with average development objects for an SAP Retail Implementation that can range from 105-145. Approximately 40% of a project’s budget is linked to development. Implementation assistant was built to manage the process and be more efficient in the development area. It helps you in the development processes by: Forcing development standards, monitoring development progress from development system to production, drive ASAP methodology in your development process and, customer maintenance and enhancement requests can be routed, prioritized and executed more efficiently.

  • Modeling the Project in functional tracks containing nested sub tracks and activities
  • Allows you to define your own development objects types (such as Reports, Web Dynpro, BI Reports, XI Interfaces)
  • Create document versioning and status tracking
  • Create integrated tracking on clarifications, issues, test cases and object completion status
  • Create flexible reporting on project status, developer workload, efforts, slippages and schedule adherence.
  • Audit trails of changed object status, document change history and project status changes

Vendor Self-Service Portal® Within SAP, SRM is the traditional method for Vendor Service. But utilization for every Vendor can be very cost prohibitive. The Vendor Self-Service Portal tool was developed to be a cost effective supplier management tool that contains the following features

  • Supplier inquires on the status of shipments
  • ASN
  • Goods receipts
  • Payments
  • Invoices
  • Open purchase orders
  • Forecasts
  • Supplier registration
  • Quotation management
  • Bidding 

ActiveApps

Interface Error Magic®is a NetWeaver based application that traps and logs all the errors encountered by an interface process involving your SAP system. A central one stop shop for error monitoring and reprocessing, the application lets your support team be more efficient by not having to log onto multiple systems.

  • Interfaces within SAP and to legacy systems can be cumbersome and difficult to monitor
  • Tracking down issues when interfaces fail costs critical time and money 
  • Handles and logs standard errors in elements such as IDOCs, BAPI’s, ABAP Programs, application errors from application log, BI, XI/PI adaptors, XI/PI proxies, XI/PI mapping, CCMS and more
  • Drill down capabilities into application logs and IDOCs
  • NetWeaver web service support is available to connect to non-SAP systems to trap and get error logs

iDoc Magic®

Integration Magic®

Master Data Magic® The lifeblood of all companies is the health of its master data. Crucial business decisions are made every day based upon information that flows through a company. If there are problems with the data, the decisions made could actually be the WRONG decisions. The Master Data Cockpit was developed with that in mind. A suite of web based reports and applications, it was developed to validate the health of your master data prior and post “go live”. One of the most common quotes you will hear is “garbage in, garbage out”. Mitigate the risk of project delays prior to go live and the risk of user error after go live with the Retail Master Data Cockpit.

  • Last minute issues with master data may cause delays and increase costs of implementation exponentially
  • Post go-live, users make mistakes. Usually errors are not found until a system or process has failed 
  • Master data cockpit is a suite of web based reports and applications to validate the health of your master data prior and post “go live” 
  • Dynamic Web based application built on NetWeaver platform
  • Finally a way to compare SAP loaded data with your legacy systems

 

SmartApps

Executive Dashboard® provides access to real-time operational data that can make all the difference in the world of retail. In order to keep customers happy and increase sales, retailers are turning to their data to help. Employees across your company can benefit from using dashboards to keep tabs on metrics like inventory, financial data, and point of sale data. Illuminate your business by providing consolidated views of key metrics so you can answer your business questions at-a-glance. Interact with your data like never before with what-if scenarios and other visual components – Use your data to make informed decisions! 

  • Transform complex company data into simple, actionable visual information
  • Obtain better insight into your business performance
  • Build professional looking dashboards in just a few hours yourself without expensive consulting help
  • Highly configurable allows use of data from legacy, SAP® and BI. Allows you to set up company dashboards very quickly tailored to the way you want to run your business 
  • Drill down capability. 
  • Use of exception Management to target meaningful data and make quick decisions 
  • Detail drill down into back end SAP®/Non-SAP® systems

 

 

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