HANA in Retail A major breakthrough for cloud based POS and Store solutions Michael Jaszczyk, CTO GK SOFTWARE
LEARNING POINTS SAP and GK a Strategic Partnership Our partnership with GK Software is an important component of the SAP Retail solution portfolio. Our strategic relationship has been further strengthened by the development investment GK Software has made in integrating SAP HANA with its solutions. Leveraging SAP HANA is yet another step to optimize our end-to-end solution portfolio for retail customers. Thomas Vetter, senior vice president, Retail & Multichannel Product Management, and Lori Mitchell-Keller, senior vice president and head of Global Retail Industry Business Unit, SAP
LEARNING POINTS GK and SAP HANA Leveraging the capabilities and benefits of SAP HANA Reduces the time needed to access information critical to a retailer s business, leading to better optimized retail operations SAP HANA transforms business by streamlining transactions, analytics, planning, predictive and sentiment data processing on a single, in-memory database so business can operate in real time.
LEARNING POINTS SAP HANA Impact for the Retailer The utilization of SAP HANA provides our retail customers with the tools needed to positively impact and effectively run their retail operations in a way that best serves their customers, Thomas Vetter, senior vice president, Retail & Multichannel Product Management, and Lori Mitchell-Keller, senior vice president and head of Global Retail Industry Business Unit, SAP.
GK SOFTWARE AG The strategic SAP partner for Store Solutions Proven SAP Store Solutions since 2009 Innovative 1st Java POS in Europe, 1st OpenScale solution, 1st Mobile SAP POS on ios International 35 Countries, more than 165 000 installations Successful Growth 681% since 2005, IPO in 2008
A winning team Joint SAP & GK customers Leading DIY chain in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Largest German grocery chain Largest European pet store chain Leading European micro retailer 6
Other Systems SAP ERP Retail SAP Store Solutions by GK Central Store Point of Sale (+mobile client) POS Open Scale Scale Store Device Control Label & Poster Printing Offline Mobile Store Portal Mobile Configuration ESL Monitoring Labels Empties
Real-time Thin Clients Multi-Channel Bricks Private Cloud Cloud The Revolution starts NOW! Clicks Social Retailing Real Real-time Omni-Channel Lean Store SOA
The Challenge 10 items per minute per POS POS 1,140 6,840 POS in 1,140 Stores Stores POS POS 6 POS per Store POS POS 68,400 items per minute POS 60 items per minute per store 1,140 per sec. 4,104,000 per hour 49,248,000 per day
Store Infrastructure Classic ERP Retail Headoffice Headquarters 1 item per second BackOffice High maintenance costs Low flexibility Time delay Store POS 1 POS 2 POS 3 POS 4 POS n 10
Store Infrastructure Central approach ERP Retail Headoffice Headquarters BO BO BackOffice n 1,140 items per second Store Store 1 Store n Store 2 Store 3 Store 4 11
Store Infrastructure Central approach (HANA) ERP Retail Headoffice Headquarters HANA BackOffice SAP Netweaver POS Services Real time reporting Huge amounts of data Store Store 1 Store n Store 2 Store 3 Store 4 12
HANA The Enabler for (private) Clouds HANA allows new ways of thinking in retail. HANA can actually reduce hardware and administration costs in centralized retail architectures. HANA enables real time management information. HANA and Retail is a perfect match! HANA will kill the batch job! 13
But there is more to it! 14
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Store Store Location based Services Personalized Advertising Webshop Home Order Mobile Loyality Social media 16
Omnichannel demands Centralized Services and Data Location based Services Store Transactions Promotions Personalized Payment Advertising Webshop Retail Services Rich Masterdata Customers Retail Data Recommendation Home Order HANA based Infrastructure Mobile Loyality Social networks 17
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