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SAP S/4HANA Retail Implementation at Guangzhou Mini King Food

Case study showing how Mini King integrated finance, procurement, and retail operations using SAP S/4HANA Retail and Customer Activity Repository for real-time visibility.

Published
June 4, 2026
Read time
3 min read
Source
SAP

Guangzhou Mini King Food implemented SAP S/4HANA Retail for merchandise management and the SAP Customer Activity Repository to unify front-end sales with back-office production and warehouse data. The deployment enabled daily cost calculations, real-time inventory visibility, and automated store synchronization. Results included monthly financial close reduced from five days to one hour and improved procurement efficiency across 300 stores and 120 product categories.

Key takeaways

Unified sales, production, and warehouse data in a single system

Monthly financial close reduced from 5 days to 1 hour

Real-time inventory visibility lowered warehousing costs

Store operations shifted from next-day manual uploads to 2-hour auto-synchronization

Enabled daily selling cost calculations instead of monthly

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