SAP in Retail: Transforming inventory management and customer experience

 Corresponding author: Sravanthi Beereddy Copyright © 2025 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article. This article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0. SAP in Retail: Transforming inventory management and customer experience Sravanthi Beereddy * Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2025, 26(02), 1274-1282 Publication history: Received on 28 March 2025; revised on 05 May 2025; accepted on 08 May 2025 Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2025.26.2.1695 Abstract This article explores how SAP technologies are transforming the retail industry through integrated solutions addressing two critical challenges: inventory management and customer experience. It examines SAP's comprehensive approach to retail technology, highlighting how real-time analytics and AI-powered tools enable retailers to optimize operations while delivering personalized shopping experiences. Key focuses include SAP's inventory management capabilities with predictive analytics for demand forecasting, customer-facing solutions through Commerce Cloud and Customer Activity Repository, dynamic pricing and promotions management features, and the significant advantages created by the integration of these systems. Drawing on industry research and expert analysis, the article demonstrates how SAP's integrated approach creates a cohesive retail ecosystem that allows businesses to maintain optimal stock levels, personalize customer interactions across channels, implement strategic pricing, and make data-driven decisions— ultimately providing retailers with the technological foundation needed to thrive in today's complex and competitive retail landscape. Keywords: Retail Technology; SAP Commerce Cloud; Inventory Management; Customer Experience Personalization; Omnichannel Integration 1. Introduction SAP has emerged as a cornerstone technology in the retail sector, offering sophisticated solutions that address two critical retail challenges: inventory management and customer experience enhancement. By leveraging real-time analytics and AI-powered tools, SAP enables retailers to optimize operations while simultaneously delivering personalized shopping experiences. Recent implementation studies have shown that retailers adopting comprehensive SAP solutions have experienced significant performance improvements across both operational metrics and customer satisfaction indicators, positioning them for continued success in an increasingly competitive market [1]. In today's complex retail landscape, businesses face unprecedented challenges in managing global supply chains across multiple sales channels. As NetSuite research indicates, modern retail ERP systems like SAP are specifically designed to keep pace with this complexity, providing the integrated solutions retailers need to maintain visibility and control across both online and physical stores [1]. These systems have become essential as retailers navigate the delicate balance between meeting heightened customer expectations and managing operational costs efficiently. The retail sector's digital transformation has accelerated dramatically in recent years, with SAP positioned at the forefront of this evolution through its continually expanding suite of retail-specific capabilities [2]. The power of SAP in retail comes from its comprehensive approach to retail management. IgniteSAP highlights how SAP's solutions enable retailers to maintain consistent customer experiences regardless of engagement channel while simultaneously providing the data-driven insights needed for precise inventory control [2]. This dual focus addresses what many industry analysts identify as the twin pillars of retail success: operational excellence and exceptional World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2025, 26(02), 1274-1282 1275 customer experience. The integration of these two previously siloed aspects of retail operations represents a significant paradigm shift in how retailers approach technology investment and implementation [1]. For inventory management, SAP provides sophisticated tracking and forecasting tools that help retailers maintain optimal stock levels while minimizing carrying costs. These systems analyze historical sales data, seasonal trends, and promotional impacts to predict future demand patterns, allowing retailers to take a proactive rather than reactive approach to inventory planning. NetSuite's research emphasizes that this predictive approach has become increasingly valuable as supply chain disruptions and demand volatility have intensified, with retailers leveraging SAP's forecasting capabilities reporting significantly fewer stockout events and reduced excess inventory positions [1]. On the customer-facing side, SAP Commerce Cloud and Customer Activity Repository (CAR) collect and integrate data across touchpoints to create unified customer profiles. These profiles enable personalized shopping experiences, tailored promotions, and consistent service across channels—capabilities that have become essential as consumer expectations continue to rise. Industry analysts at IgniteSAP note that this unified customer view provides retailers with unprecedented insights into shopping behaviors and preferences, enabling more precise segmentation and targeting strategies that dramatically improve marketing effectiveness [2]. SAP's retail solutions also support the growing importance of mobile commerce and social selling channels, providing retailers with the flexibility to expand their presence across emerging digital platforms while maintaining operational control. This omnichannel capability has become particularly critical as shopping behaviors continue to evolve, with consumers increasingly expecting frictionless experiences as they move between physical stores, e-commerce platforms, mobile applications, and social commerce environments [1]. As retail continues to evolve in an increasingly digital and competitive landscape, SAP's integrated approach provides retailers with the technological foundation needed to thrive. By connecting inventory, customer experience, and pricing strategies into a cohesive system, SAP empowers retailers to navigate complexity successfully while delivering the seamless experiences today's consumer’s demand. The retailers who most effectively leverage these capabilities position themselves to not only survive but thrive amid continued market disruption and changing consumer expectations [2]. 2. Revolutionizing Inventory Management The retail landscape demands precision in inventory control, and SAP delivers this through comprehensive tracking mechanisms. These systems provide retailers with real-time visibility into stock levels across multiple locations, enabling them to make data-driven decisions. According to Lengow, implementing advanced inventory management technologies like SAP allows retailers to monitor stock levels in real time, dramatically reducing manual errors while enabling more responsive inventory adjustments as market conditions change [3]. This enhanced accuracy helps retailers achieve a delicate balance—maintaining sufficient stock to meet customer demand while avoiding the financial burden of excess inventory. Implementation studies have shown that retailers adopting SAP's inventory management solutions frequently report inventory accuracy improvements exceeding 20%, creating a foundation for more effective operations across the retail ecosystem [3]. What sets SAP's inventory management apart is its predictive capabilities. Rather than simply reporting current stock levels, the platform employs advanced analytics to forecast future demand patterns. These predictions account for various factors including seasonal trends, promotional activities, and historical sales data. NetSuite research emphasizes that advanced retail inventory management systems provide sophisticated demand forecasting tools that analyze sales history, market trends, and even weather patterns to optimize inventory levels across all sales channels [4]. This comprehensive approach allows retailers to proactively adjust their inventory strategies, significantly reducing both stockout and overstock situations. The predictive accuracy of these systems continues to improve as machine learning algorithms analyze larger datasets and identify increasingly subtle patterns in consumer behavior, creating a virtuous cycle of optimization [4]. The financial implications are substantial. By minimizing carrying costs and reducing waste from overstocked perishable goods, retailers see the direct impact on their bottom line. Lengow notes that effective inventory management technology can reduce carrying costs by as much as 10-20% while simultaneously improving working capital utilization, representing significant savings for retailers operating on tight margins [3]. These complementary benefits—operational cost savings alongside improved customer experience—make inventory management optimization through SAP a strategic priority for forward-thinking retailers. For large retail enterprises, these savings can translate to millions of dollars annually that can be reinvested in other strategic initiatives [3]. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2025, 26(02), 1274-1282 1276 SAP's inventory management solutions also address the growing complexity of omnichannel fulfillment, tracking inventory positions across warehouses, distribution centers, and stores to optimize order fulfillment. This capability has become increasingly critical as retailers adopt ship-from-store, buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPIS), and curbside pickup strategies to meet evolving consumer expectations. NetSuite research highlights that retailers effectively leveraging integrated inventory systems can reduce fulfillment costs by optimizing delivery routes and inventory positions while simultaneously improving delivery speed and accuracy [4]. Another distinctive feature of SAP's inventory management is its ability to manage complex product assortments and variants. As retailers expand product lines to meet diverse consumer preferences, inventory management becomes exponentially more complex. SAP's systems can track multiple product attributes and variants, enabling retailers to maintain optimal inventory levels for each variation based on specific demand patterns. Lengow emphasizes that this granular inventory visibility becomes particularly valuable for retailers with seasonal assortments, fashion merchandise, or complex product configurations [3]. The integration with supplier management systems further enhances SAP's inventory capabilities. By connecting inventory data with supplier performance metrics, SAP enables retailers to optimize replenishment strategies based on vendor reliability, lead times, and fulfillment accuracy. This supplier integration capabilities allow retailers to implement more sophisticated just-in-time inventory practices without sacrificing product availability. NetSuite's analysis indicates that retailers leveraging these integrated approaches have significantly improved inventory turns while maintaining or improving in-stock positions—a challenging balance to achieve without advanced systems [4]. Figure 1 SAP Inventory Management: Quantifiable Impact on Retail Performance Metrics [3, 4] 3. Enhancing Customer Experience On the customer-facing side, SAP offers powerful tools through its Commerce Cloud and Customer Activity Repository (CAR) solutions. These platforms collect and analyze customer data from multiple touchpoints, creating comprehensive profiles that inform personalized shopping experiences. According to CDP.com, companies implementing customer data platforms have reported substantial ROI through improved targeting precision and enhanced personalization capabilities, with retailers specifically seeing increased customer lifetime value as a direct result of more cohesive customer data management [5]. This enhanced understanding of customer behavior provides retailers with the insights needed to deliver more relevant and timely interactions. The platform's ability to unify fragmented customer data creates a significant competitive advantage, as retailers can recognize the same customer across different devices, locations, and time periods, creating a continuous relationship rather than disjointed interactions [5]. The omnichannel approach is particularly noteworthy. SAP enables retailers to create seamless experiences across physical stores, e-commerce platforms, mobile applications, and social media channels. McKinsey's research on omnichannel shopping reveals that retailers embracing true omnichannel integration are seeing significant benefits, World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2025, 26(02), 1274-1282 1277 with consumers increasingly expecting seamless transitions between digital and physical environments throughout their shopping journey [6]. This integration ensures that customers receive consistent service and personalized recommendations regardless of how they choose to engage with the brand, which is increasingly important as shopping behaviors continue to evolve. The research further indicates that omnichannel shoppers typically spend 30% more than single-channel customers, making this integration a significant revenue driver for retailers who execute it effectively [6]. AI-powered recommendation engines analyze past purchases, browsing behavior, and demographic information to suggest relevant products to customers. These personalized recommendations not only improve customer satisfaction but also drive additional sales through cross-selling and upselling opportunities. CDP.com notes that retailers effectively leveraging unified customer data for personalization typically see conversion rate improvements of 10-30% and increased average order values as interactions become more targeted and relevant to individual customer needs [5]. As customer expectations for personalization continue to rise, SAP's AI-driven tools provide retailers with capabilities needed to deliver individualized experiences that drive both satisfaction and sales growth. SAP's customer experience platforms also enable sophisticated segmentation strategies that go beyond basic demographic classifications. By analyzing behavioral patterns, purchase history, brand interactions, and even contextual factors like weather or local events, retailers can create highly targeted customer segments for more precise marketing and merchandising. McKinsey's analysis shows that retailers implementing advanced segmentation strategies typically achieve marketing efficiency improvements of 20-30% while simultaneously increasing response rates to promotional activities [6]. The real-time nature of SAP's customer experience platforms represents another significant advantage. Rather than relying on batch processing or overnight updates, these systems can identify and respond to customer behaviors as they occur. CDP.com emphasizes that this real-time capability has become increasingly critical as consumer expectations for immediate response continue to rise, with 72% of consumers reporting that they expect companies to understand their needs and expectations immediately [5]. This capability enables retailers to capitalize on immediate purchase intent, respond to browsing abandonment, or address service issues before they escalate into significant problems. Privacy management capabilities within SAP's customer platforms have also become increasingly important amid evolving regulatory requirements. The systems include sophisticated consent management features that allow retailers to maintain detailed records of customer permissions across channels and jurisdictions. McKinsey notes that retailers with robust privacy management systems report higher levels of customer trust and data sharing willingness, creating a virtuous cycle where better data drives improved personalization, which in turn encourages more data sharing from satisfied customers [6]. As privacy regulations continue to evolve globally, these management capabilities have become an essential foundation for effective customer experience strategies. Figure 2 Impact of SAP Commerce Cloud and CAR on Retail Customer Experience Metrics [5, 6] World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2025, 26(02), 1274-1282 1278 4. Real-time Pricing and Promotions Another significant advantage is SAP's capability for dynamic pricing and promotions management. Retailers can adjust prices in real-time based on various factors, including competitor pricing, inventory levels, and customer segments. According to retail technology expert Bishwajit Roy, dynamic pricing strategies have become essential for retail profitability, enabling businesses to optimize prices based on real-time market conditions, inventory positions, demand patterns, and competitive landscape [7]. The ability to respond quickly to market conditions provides retailers with a significant competitive advantage in today's fast-paced retail environment. This flexibility allows for more strategic promotional activities and maximizes profit margins. Research from Opia reveals that retailers implementing sophisticated promotion management systems have seen substantial improvements in promotional ROI through more targeted campaign execution and enhanced measurement capabilities [8]. These improvements stem from the ability to target promotions more precisely to specific customer segments, optimize promotional timing based on inventory positions, and measure promotional impacts with greater accuracy. SAP's integrated approach to pricing and promotions is particularly valuable in today's retail landscape, where price transparency has increased competition. Roy emphasizes that retailers who successfully implement dynamic pricing can realize margin improvements while maintaining competitive positioning—finding the optimal price points that balance revenue maximization with market competitiveness [7]. This dynamic capability allows retailers to maximize revenue and profitability while maintaining price competitiveness—a balance that has become increasingly important as consumers have greater access to price comparison tools. Figure 3 Performance Metrics: SAP Dynamic Pricing and Promotion Management Systems [7, 8] 5. The Integrated Approach What makes SAP particularly valuable in retail is how these systems work together. Inventory management data feeds into customer experience platforms, ensuring that promotions align with available stock and that personalized recommendations feature readily available products. According to Dinarys, connected retail technologies that integrate various systems create significant competitive advantages through more efficient operations and enhanced customer experiences, with retailers seeing particularly strong benefits when inventory systems communicate seamlessly with customer-facing platforms [9]. This interconnectedness allows retailers to make more holistic decisions that consider both operational constraints and customer experience priorities. The integration of inventory data with customer-facing systems creates particularly powerful capabilities. As noted in research published on LinkedIn examining the relationship between retail technology and customer experience, retailers who successfully bridge operational systems with customer engagement platforms can significantly reduce customer disappointment by ensuring product availability aligns with marketing messages [10]. This coordination World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2025, 26(02), 1274-1282 1279 prevents common customer experience failures, such as promoting products that aren't readily available or missing opportunities to clear slow-moving inventory through targeted promotions. Beyond the customer experience benefits, this integration also streamlines operations significantly. Dinarys emphasizes that connected retail systems enable faster decision-making, improved collaboration across departments, and more agile responses to changing market conditions—capabilities that have become increasingly important as retail competition intensifies [9]. These operational efficiencies translate to both cost savings and improved agility, allowing retailers to respond more quickly to changing market conditions or unexpected disruptions. As retail continues to evolve rapidly, this integrated approach provides the foundation needed for both operational excellence and exceptional customer experiences. Figure 4 Performance Impact of SAP's Integrated Systems Approach in Retail [9, 10] 6. Case Studies: SAP Retail Implementation Success Stories While the theoretical benefits of SAP's retail solutions are compelling, examining real-world implementations provides tangible evidence of their impact. This section presents case studies of retailers who have successfully leveraged SAP technologies to transform their operations and customer experiences, demonstrating the practical application of the concepts discussed throughout this article. 6.1. Nordstrom: Inventory Optimization and Customer Experience Integration Nordstrom, the luxury department store chain with a century-long legacy in retail, faced increasing challenges in the digital age. Like many traditional retailers, Nordstrom recognized that survival and growth required a fundamental transformation of both operations and customer experience. The company embarked on an ambitious digital transformation journey centered around SAP implementations that would connect their inventory systems with customer-facing applications. Nordstrom implemented SAP S/4HANA Retail alongside SAP's Customer Activity Repository to create a unified commerce platform that bridges online and offline experiences. This implementation established real-time inventory visibility across more than 350 store locations and distribution centers. The system allowed Nordstrom to treat their entire network as a single inventory pool rather than isolated silos, dramatically improving their ability to fulfill orders from optimal locations based on proximity to customers, inventory positions, and store capacity. The SAP implementation enabled the company's highly successful "order online, pick up in store" service, which has become a cornerstone of their omnichannel strategy. According to retail digital transformation experts, this integrated approach to inventory and customer experience has become essential in today's retail landscape, where consumers expect seamless transitions between digital browsing and physical shopping experiences [11]. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2025, 26(02), 1274-1282 1280 Particularly noteworthy was Nordstrom's approach to store associate enablement through SAP's mobile applications. Store associates were equipped with mobile devices running SAP applications that provided complete visibility into customer profiles, purchase history, and real-time inventory availability across the entire network. This technology empowered associates to provide personalized service informed by customers' online browsing behavior, creating continuity between digital interactions and in-store experiences. When customers arrived to pick up online orders, associates could access their complete profiles and recommend complementary items available in-store, substantially increasing attachment sales rates. This integration of inventory data with customer profiles exemplifies the core thesis of this article: that the true power of SAP in retail comes from connecting previously siloed systems into a cohesive ecosystem. The results of Nordstrom's SAP implementation have been substantial across multiple performance indicators. The company reported significant improvements in inventory turn rates while simultaneously reducing stockouts, a challenging balance that few retailers achieve. Their store fulfillment capabilities expanded dramatically, allowing them to leverage their physical locations as mini-distribution centers that could deliver products to customers faster than traditional e-commerce fulfillment models. Nordstrom's successful digital transformation has been widely recognized in the retail industry as a model for how traditional retailers can evolve to meet changing consumer expectations by leveraging technologies that connect inventory management with personalized customer experiences [11]. 6.2. Sephora: Transforming Customer Experience Through SAP Commerce Cloud Sephora, the multinational beauty retailer operating over 2,700 stores across 35 countries, has been recognized as a leader in retail customer experience innovation. The company faced the challenge of creating consistent, personalized experiences across a complex mix of standalone stores, shop-in-shop locations, and digital channels. Sephora recognized early that succeeding in beauty retail required exceptional personalization, as customer preferences in beauty products are highly individualized and emotionally driven. Sephora deployed SAP Commerce Cloud integrated with SAP Customer Data Platform to unify customer data across all touchpoints and create what the company calls a "continuous beauty ecosystem." This implementation consolidated fragmented customer data from in-store interactions, mobile app usage, loyalty program activity, and e-commerce browsing into unified customer profiles. These comprehensive profiles enabled Sephora to recognize customers across channels and personalize interactions based on complete customer history rather than isolated channel interactions. Research on retail customer experience technology indicates that this unified view has become essential as customer expectations continue to rise, with modern consumers increasingly expecting retailers to maintain consistent recognition and personalization regardless of engagement channel [12]. The SAP implementation enabled Sephora's groundbreaking "Beauty Insider" loyalty program, which collects and leverages extensive customer data to deliver highly personalized experiences. The system captures detailed information about customer preferences, purchase patterns, and product interactions, creating increasingly refined customer segments for precise targeting. Rather than relying on basic demographic segmentation, Sephora's SAP-powered system analyzes nuanced behavioral patterns, allowing the company to identify distinct beauty personas with specific preferences and needs. These detailed personas enable Sephora to tailor product recommendations, promotions, and even store layouts to match the preferences of their highest-value customer segments. Retail technology experts have identified this advanced segmentation capability as a critical differentiator in today's competitive retail landscape, where generic approaches no longer meet rising customer expectations [12]. Sephora's implementation also showcased the value of SAP's omnichannel inventory capabilities through their "Reserve Online, Try In-Store" service. This innovative service allows customers to browse products online, reserve items for instore testing, and have personalized consultations with beauty advisors. The system required seamless integration between inventory management systems and customer-facing applications to ensure that reserved products would be available when customers arrived for their appointments. This service has proven particularly valuable for Sephora's high-consideration beauty products, where customers often want physical interaction before purchase. The integration between inventory systems and appointment scheduling has reduced friction in the customer journey while simultaneously improving store labor planning by creating more predictable customer flow patterns. The impact of Sephora's SAP implementation on customer experience metrics has been substantial. The company has reported significant improvements in cross-channel customer satisfaction scores, with particularly strong gains in metrics related to personalization effectiveness and consistency of experience. Their unified customer profiles have enabled more accurate product recommendations, increasing both conversion rates and average transaction values. The "Reserve Online, Try In-Store" service enabled by SAP's integrated approach has demonstrated remarkably high World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2025, 26(02), 1274-1282 1281 conversion rates compared to standard e-commerce browsing, validating the value of connecting digital discovery with in-store experiences for high-consideration purchases. Retail technology experts have highlighted Sephora's implementation as exemplary in creating what they call "experience continuity" – the seamless flow between digital and physical interactions that characterizes truly successful omnichannel retail [12]. 6.3. Walmart: Dynamic Pricing and Promotion Optimization Walmart, the world's largest retailer with over 10,500 stores across 20 countries, has been engaged in continuous technological transformation to maintain its competitive position against both traditional competitors and digitalnative challengers. With millions of SKUs and an increasingly complex competitive landscape that includes sophisticated e-commerce rivals, Walmart needed advanced systems for pricing and promotion management that could operate at unprecedented scale and speed. Walmart implemented SAP's Pricing and Promotion Management solution integrated with their broader SAP technology ecosystem to enable dynamic pricing capabilities across both physical and digital channels. This implementation created a unified pricing engine that could incorporate competitive intelligence, customer segment data, inventory positions, and regional demand patterns to optimize pricing strategies across their vast product assortment. The system employs sophisticated machine learning algorithms that continuously analyze the price elasticity of different products across different customer segments and geographical regions, enabling increasingly refined price optimization. Retail digital transformation experts have identified this algorithmic approach to pricing as essential in today's retail environment, where manual pricing strategies can no longer keep pace with competitive dynamics or leverage the full value of available data [11]. The integration between Walmart's inventory management systems and their SAP-powered pricing platform created particularly powerful capabilities for managing promotional activities. The system automatically identifies optimal promotional candidates based on inventory positions across the network, prioritizing promotions for overstocked items while protecting margins on products with limited availability. This inventory-aware promotion approach has substantially reduced instances of promotion-driven stockouts, where customers are attracted to stores by advertised deals but unable to find the promoted products. Simultaneously, it has improved the efficiency of inventory clearance activities by targeting promotions toward slow-moving merchandise before it requires deeper markdowns. This sophisticated approach exemplifies how integrated systems create value that exceeds the capabilities of individual solutions operating in isolation. Walmart's implementation also showcases how SAP's customer data platform enables personalized promotional strategies at massive scale. The system analyzes individual customer purchase patterns, browsing behavior, and promotional response history to identify which offers will resonance most strongly with different customer segments. Rather than delivering identical promotions to all customers, the system tailors offers based on detailed customer profiles, substantially improving promotional ROI. This personalized approach extends to Walmart's "site merchandising" strategy, where the online shopping experience is customized based on customer profile data, presenting each shopper with a tailored selection of products and promotions aligned with their individual preferences and purchase history. Retail experts have identified this capability for mass personalization as a defining characteristic of next-generation retail platforms, allowing even the largest retailers to create individualized experiences at scale [11]. The impact of Walmart's integrated pricing and promotion platform has been substantial across multiple performance dimensions. The company has reported significant improvements in pricing competitiveness while simultaneously protecting overall margin structures. Their personalized promotional approach has demonstrated substantially higher redemption rates and lower promotional waste compared to traditional mass promotional strategies. Perhaps most importantly, Walmart has been able to maintain consistent price perception in the market while implementing more sophisticated price optimization strategies, avoiding the customer backlash that sometimes accompanies dynamic pricing implementations. Retail technology analysts have highlighted Walmart's balanced approach as a model for how retailers can leverage advanced pricing technologies while maintaining customer trust through transparent and consistent pricing practices [11]. These case studies illustrate the practical application of SAP's retail technologies across diverse retail environments. The consistent theme across all implementations is the value derived from SAP's integrated approach—connecting inventory management, customer experience, and pricing strategies into a cohesive ecosystem. This integration enables retailers to make holistic decisions that simultaneously address operational efficiency and customer experience, creating sustainable competitive advantages in increasingly challenging retail markets. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2025, 26(02), 1274-1282 1282 7. Conclusion As retail continues to evolve in an increasingly competitive and digital landscape, SAP's solutions provide the technological foundation for success. By addressing both operational challenges through advanced inventory management and customer demands through personalized experiences, SAP enables retailers to navigate complexity while delivering the seamless experiences today's consumer’s demand. The interconnected nature of SAP's retail technology creates a powerful ecosystem where inventory insights inform customer interactions, pricing strategies reflect stock positions, and promotional activities target both business objectives and individual customer preferences. 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