SAP AG yesterday added another vertical market to its growing line-up of Accelerated ERP solutions, this time focusing its attentions on the retail sector. As part of its AcceleratedSAP initiative, the German software giant announced Accelerated Retail, a pre-configured, out-of-the box solution focused initially on the fashion and supermarket-discount store segments of the retail market. SAP said the software is designed to offer a rapid, tailored and low-risk implementation of the SAP Retail package for retailers of all sizes. Versions for hard goods and wholesale are scheduled to be delivered in the first quarter of 2000.
Like its other vertical products, it is based on standard configuration tools and templates including its Pre-configured System, AcceleratedSAP for rapid implementation and Ready-to-Run R/3. On top of that, the software vendor said it worked with customers and technology partners to tweak the software to better fit the needs of the retail community including such functionality as requirements planning and forecasting; purchase-order management; procurement; vendor returns; warehouse management and store inventory.
