Planning types allow you to create planning data in Business Planning
and Simulation (BPS) when you perform key figure planning in marketing projects
or account plans. You choose a planning type when you assign a planning profile
to a planning profile group in Customizing for Customer Relationship
Management
under .
The following planning types are available:
Used with trade promotions, trade promotion elements, campaigns, and campaign elements
Used with trade promotions, trade promotion elements, and deals
Used with trade promotions, trade promotions elements, and deals. These planning types allow planning of free goods promotions. There are two types of free goods promotions:
Free goods
You assign a free goods product to each promoted product. The free goods product can be different for each promoted product. The free goods product is granted when the specified rules are met.
Product-independent free goods
All promotional products have the same free goods product.
Used with campaigns and campaign elements
Cost Planning with Marketing Spends
Similar to Cost Planning but allows you to use marketing spends.
The following planning types are available as read-only planning data:
APO
Used to read the uplift quantity on the SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) integration interface, allowing you to evaluate whether a promotion is feasible. It is a subview of volumes/trade spends planning and is not visible in key figure planning for marketing projects or account plans.
APO Distribution Key
Used when planning at a product category level to determine how the uplift amounts that are assigned to product categories are distributed to the products, that is, determine the products and their corresponding distribution keys.
Print preview (PDF)
Used by the customer confirmation report to print the planning data. It is also a subview of volumes/trade spends planning or cost planning.
Workflow
Used when you want to retrieve planning data in a workflow. For example, a customer may wish to retrieve the total planned cost for a campaign. Depending on the total approved cost, an approval e-mail can be triggered.
Condition generation
Used when the condition records are generated from a background planning profile. For example, a trade promotion is planned at product category level but the condition records are generated at product level. The planning data used to generate the conditions is read from a background planning profile containing the disaggregated planning data at product level. The planning data must be disaggregated into another InfoCube. This can happen on request or in a background task.
You also use a condition generation planning profile when there
are multiple planning profiles of type Volumes/Trade Spends
or
when there is previous year plan data included in the Volumes/Trade
Spends
planning profile. The condition generation planning
profile contains only the current plan data; it does not contain the previous
year actual data.