Defining Site Groups

Use

You can assign site groups to a promotion and make special settings, such as selling periods for each site group.

Note Note

If you want to use the allocation table or promotion announcement subsequent processing options, you must assign site groups to a promotion.

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Prerequisites

  • You have defined which class types for defining site groups in the classification system are permitted for the promotion.

    For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Logistics General under Start of the navigation path Basic Data Retail Next navigation step Applications End of the navigation path .

  • You have defined site groups in the classification system.

Features

  • You can use the following types of site groups for promotions:

    • Classification system site groups that are available globally, and that you can use in different applications.

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    You can only create site groups for the classification system if you have the necessary authorization.

    • Promotion-specific site groups that you create in a promotion without reference to the classification system, and use in that one promotion only.

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    When you create promotion-specific site groups, the system checks that you have not assigned a site to several site groups.

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  • You can assign as many classification system site groups and promotion-specific site groups to a promotion as you want.

  • You can convert a classification system site group to a promotion-specific site group. If you change the classification system site group after conversion, the promotion-specific site group does not change.

    Note Note

    You cannot convert promotion-specific site groups into classification system site groups.

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  • You can continue to delete sites or site groups until subsequent processing begins.

  • If you change site groups after subsequent processing has started, the system only takes these changes into account for articles that it has not already processed.

Activities

  • If you are processing a promotion in the Promotion component, create site groups on the Site Groups tab page.

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    If you create a promotion, you can define a reference promotion to copy, for example, the site groups from an existing promotion.

    You cannot copy the settings in a promotion-specific site group to a new promotion by reusing the group name.

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  • If you process a promotion price plan in the Price Planning Workbench (PPW) , you define site groups on the Site Groups – Promotion tab page.

    If you want to use site groups for promotion price plans, you use an organization set from the Site Group category.

    For more information, see Organization Set .

Example

You create a ‘Back to School’ promotion. As the school year starts at different times in different states, you define a site group for each state, and assign different selling periods to the site groups.

See also:

Activating Promotion Prices

Sites: Grouping