Sales organization 1020 has created a sales promotion, that is, a general marketing plan, for the product group "paint", which contains several types of sales deals. The sales deals provide the basis for arranging discounts with the customers and the promotion contains the budgets planned for the discounts. When you create a sales deal, the R/3 System checks whether resources are still available from the planned budget. As soon as sales orders or billing documents for a particular sales deal are created, the actual figures from these transactions are transferred to the budget so that it remains up to date.