Flexible data processing: The solution supports companies to handle accurate end-to-end flow of material across all relevant procurement applications. It also enables data processing based on the characteristic values such as style, color, size, along with other flexible segmentation characteristics such as seasons, sales channels, etc.

Segmentation: The solution allows you to categorize materials or articles based on their physical and logical characteristics. For example, color and size are physical characteristics of a fashion article while quality and country of origin are logical characteristics of a fashion article. Required segments are important in sales, for sales orders and planned independent requirements. Stock segments are used for the logical distribution of the existing physical stock and the future receipts or procurement proposals, such as purchase requisitions.

Multichannel planning: You can forecast future demand and procure supplies for multiple sales channels. You can also manage the demand of different channels separately, such as retail, wholesale, e-commerce, or franchise, according to the channel-specific processes. MRP on HANA now supports materials (articles in Retail) with segmentation. For materials with segmentation, the system executes the MRP processes based on the rules defined in the segmentation strategy. The MRP run happens at the variant levels of the generic article. As a result, separate documents (purchase requisitions) are created for each of the variants belonging to the same generic article to fulfill the open requirements at variant levels .This end the practice of the planner or user spending a lot of time checking or going through multiple documents for variants belonging to the same generic article. You can enable grouping of purchase requisition functionality, and during the MRP run the system groups the variants belonging to same generic article into a single document based on the certain criteria

ATP with segmentation: With advanced methods of requirement segmentation and availability check, you can ensure that high priority channels receive their planned quantities even if their demand is delayed.