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Know every store, every SKU, every shopper.

Retail is expanding fast while margins tighten — new stores, new formats, and shoppers who move between mall and app without noticing the difference.

Altivate builds the retail core on SAP for Retail and SAP S/4HANA, unifies sales and demand signals in SAP Customer Activity Repository, and runs digital channels on SAP Commerce Cloud.

On top, retail intelligence through SAP Business Data Cloud with SAP Business AI and Joule — and Altivate agentic AI working on your own sales and inventory data — turns those signals into decisions.

The outcome: the right stock in the right store, channels that convert, and margin you can see by SKU.

Your retail value chain
Source Distribute Merchandise Sell Engage
SAP digital core
SAP for Retail SAP S/4HANA SAP Customer Activity Repository SAP Commerce Cloud
Data & AI intelligence — the Altivate difference
SAP Business Data Cloud SAP Business AI · Joule Altivate agentic AI
Right stock, right store Channels that convert Visible margin Faster store operations
From buying to engagement: the retail value chain runs on the SAP retail core, feeds retail intelligence in the data and AI layer, and lands on stock, conversion and margin outcomes.
The pressures

The pressures reshaping retail

Growth is abundant in retail; margin and consistency are not.

Store expansion races ahead of back-office capacity.
Shoppers move between mall and app and expect one price, one stock truth, one identity.
Discounting erodes margin faster than merchandising can react.
Inventory accuracy across channels decides both conversion and write-offs.
Franchise and multi-brand structures multiply complexity in finance and supply.
Delivery

What Altivate delivers on SAP

A retail core that scales with the chain, not against it.

A core built for retail

SAP for Retail on SAP S/4HANA runs merchandising, replenishment and store operations at chain scale. New stores and formats onboard onto the same core, not another spreadsheet.

Every sales signal, one repository

SAP Customer Activity Repository consolidates point-of-sale transactions into one near-real-time view of sales and stock across channels. Omnichannel promises rest on inventory you can trust.

Commerce without the seams

SAP Commerce Cloud runs web and app storefronts on the same article, price and stock truth as your stores. Click-and-collect and returns work because the data does.

Margin visible by SKU

SAP S/4HANA finance closes fast and shows profitability by SKU, store and channel. Discounting decisions get made on numbers, not nerve.

The edge

Where AI changes the game

Retail intelligence on your own sales and inventory data.

Retail intelligence, live

SAP Business Data Cloud unifies sales, inventory and commerce data as the foundation for retail intelligence. SAP Business AI turns it into forecasts and recommendations inside the flow of work.

Joule on the shop floor

Joule lets merchandisers and store teams ask for stock, sales and replenishment answers in plain language. Decisions that waited for a report now happen in the aisle.

Agents on your retail data

Altivate agentic AI works on your own sales and inventory data — watching availability, flagging anomalies and preparing trading reviews. Your teams act; the agents do the legwork.

Proof

Proven in retail

As an SAP Gold Partner and SAP Partner Center of Expertise (PCoE), Altivate builds retail cores on SAP S/4HANA and connects them to the channels where shoppers actually buy.

Trusted by McDonald’s, Almarai, Goody and Eat Group — leading retail and F&B brands

  • Retail & F&B delivery

Altivate is certified to ISO 27001.

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