On the Create Promotion: Initial Screen enter the promotion type and the promotion to be created.

You can enter a reference promotion. The data from the reference promotion is copied to the promotion you are entering.

Choose ENTER.

You go to Fast Entry. Enter the required header data of the promotion.

On the Fast Entry screen, enter the article and sales unit and, if required, the promotional sales price and planned quantity for every item.

Choose  Goto Header to go to the screen on which you can enter organizational data, the condition type groups for purchasing and sales and the related price activation indicator, the listing procedure, the allocation type, the promotion announcement type and the output determination procedure.

You can define whether you wish to block a promotion or a particular article for further processing and the period for which this block is valid. If you block a promotion, you also have to enter a blocking reason.

You can also assign a promotion to a higher-level promotion using the Assigned to Promotion field. This can enable you to carry SAP ERP (SAP Retail) promotions as part of SAP CRM campaigns. For more information, see Definition of a Higher-Level Promotion.

On the quantity planning screen, you can enter planned sales quantity, minimum purchase quantity and quantity to be allocated for every article.

On the price planning screen, you can enter the planned sales quantity, purchase price and sales price for every article.

On the logistics control screen, you can enter the order date and the ordering and delivery period.

On the themes screen, you can assign themes to the promotion, and on the Site Groups screen you can assign site groups and maintain site-group-specific data.

On the Product Catalog screen, you can assign a promotion product catalog to the promotion.

You create the product catalog by entering a number and a name. You define the data for the product catalog variants.

You can include promotional articles in the product catalog and assign these a place in the catalog, as well as external documents, and text.

Return to the previous screen.

To enable you to define an assortment of merchandise specific for a promotion, you can manually create an assortment module. To do this, go to the Modules screen.

You also have to define the module type. This must always be a promotion or exclusion module. Assign a number to the module, and add the required articles to the module items.

On the Promotion module overview, assign this module to a site group.

If you want to enter special conditions for the promotion, you can do this in the screens for purchase price conditions and sales price conditions.

Save your entries.

Go to the Promotion Subsequent Processing: Initial Screen.

Choose Supply Source Determination.

For each item, you can choose Sources of Supply to have the system list all sources of supply, from which you can select one manually, or choose SS proposal to have the system propose a supply source.

You can go to a detailed view of the sites.

Save your data.

Choose Listing.

If you created manual promotion modules, select the promotion modules that you want to generate a listing for, and choose Listing.

Save your data.

Choose Price Activation.

Before you activate prices, you must have maintained the purchase and sales prices for the promotion.

Select the items that you want to activate prices for and choose Activate. You can also activate prices for site groups. To do this, go to the Site groups screen.

You can maintain sales prices at site level or site group level. You can plan quantities at site level. You go to this screen by choosing Plant data.

Choose Announcement.

Choose the type of output that you want to send to the sites (notification, reminder, confirmation). On the screen that appears you can select the sites and articles that you want to create the output for.

You can have the system display the announcement.

Save your data.

You can also send the promotion announcement by electronic means, in order to receive a (site-specific) reply.

Choose Allocation Table.

Select the items for which you want to generate an allocation table, and generate the allocation table with an allocation rule (or with site quantities, if you want to generate the allocation table using individual quantities).

Save your data.

Choose Additionals.

Select the items that you want to assign an additional to and choose Additionals.

Save your data.