Hii Retail Master Data Management And Processing Concepts
Overview
This page describes the basic concepts of master data management and processing in Hii Retail.
Master data management and processing allows you to integrate external ERP systems with Hii Retail and to input master data specific for a store (Business Unit) or master data that needs to be processed and distributed to several stores (Business Unit Group).
The master data management and processing consists of several important entities in a retailers' operation. Most important are Item, Price Specification (Price) and Additional Item Id, but more advanced integration will also require use of other entities.
The following pages will provide more details for each entity, the services accompanied with the entities as well as how they relate to each other.
First time reader?
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Common use cases
It is not always easy to describe all potential use cases or ways to integrate and there might be a number of reasons to send your master data to Hii Retail. Very often it is to integrate with a POS system, but there might be other reasons as well.
Below we will list some of the most common use cases:
- Date and time in integrations
- Add a new Item
- Update an Item
- Add a new Price Specification
- Create an Item with a deposit amount
- Move an Item into assortment
- Create a new variant
- Set age restriction on an Item
- Define a replacement Item
- Create a default price
- Create a sales price
- Create a purchase price
POS integration details
- General information about integrating with a POS
- Managing Business Unit specific data
- Managing master data using a hierarchy
- Color, Size and Style - Managing variants
Integrating to use Click and Collect
Integration to provide search capabilities
- How to get search capabilities
- Search for Items by Item Identifiers (barcode)
- Search for Items in the Complete Item Query API
Capabilities
Read more about the capabilities in Hii Retail here
Entities
Read more about our entities here
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Read more about it here