Creating a Markdown Price Plan

Purpose

In slow seller management, you make settings in SAP BI for rule-based markdown controlling. If articles do not meet the target sales ratios in a defined time period, SAP BI generates markdown proposals for the selected analysis level based on the markdown profiles assigned. You transfer the markdown proposals with the chosen price activation levels to a worklist in SAP ECC and fill them with data that is relevant for price planning. In the Price Planning Workbench (PPW), you create a markdown price plan for the markdown proposals. In price planning you can accept, change, or reject markdown proposals.

Prerequisites

  • Based on the settings for rule-based markdown controlling, SAP BI has generated markdown proposals that you have transferred to SAP ECC for processing in the worklist.

    For more information, see the SAP Netweaver documentation, under Start of the navigation path Information Integration Next navigation step SAP Business Information Warehouse Next navigation step BI Content Next navigation step Planning Content Next navigation step Retail Analytics Next navigation step Merchandise and Assortment Planning Next navigation step Slow Seller Management End of the navigation path .

  • You have enhanced the markdown proposals with price-planning-relevant data.

    For more information, see Enrichment of Markdown Proposals .

Process Flow

  1. In the list field in the worklist in the PPW, you enter Markdowns as the price planning category.

  2. You select the markdown proposals you want and transfer them to the worklist.

    For more information, see Worklist under “Selecting Markdown Proposals and Articles for the Worklist”.

  3. You create a new price plan.

    In the header data, the system automatically sets the latest possible date as the validity end date of the price plan.

  4. You transfer the markdown proposals you require to the price plan.

  5. The system transfers the setting for the validity start that you defined in the report for enriching markdown proposals to the header data of the price plan. You can change this validity start date. If you transfer more markdown proposals to the price plan, the system adjusts their validity start date to the one in the header data.

  6. The system generates appropriate organization sets from the organizational levels of the markdown proposals.

  7. You process the markdown items in the work area.

    For more information, see Markdown Price Plan Processing .

  8. You save the price plan.

Result

You have created a markdown price plan. The price plan has the status In Process .

You can continue to process the markdown price plan.

For more information, see Subsequent Processing of Price Plans .

See also:

Price Planning Workbench