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
Describing all potential use cases or integration methods can be challenging, and there may be various reasons to send your master data to Hii Retail. Often, it is to integrate with a POS system, but there could be other reasons as well.
Below are 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 bottle 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.