You can assign both individual articles and generic articles with variants to a promotion.

When you add an individual article, the system display the article description, unit of measure, and the default currency. You enter the quantity you plan to sell and the promotion price. You can also change the currency if you wish.

You cannot add variants to a promotion individually. You must add the generic article, and this determines how variants are handled.

When you add a generic article, all its variants are automatically included. Variants which inherit their prices from the generic article are protected so you cannot delete any of them. Variants which have their own prices, however, can be deleted.

You can change the display so that it shows only the generic articles, only the variants, or both.

If the variants inherit their prices from the generic article, then the sales prices for the variants are for display only. If you change the sales price for the generic article, prices for the variants change automatically. However, if variants do not inherit their prices, then you can change their sales prices here, and changing the price for the generic article will not affect these variants. (It is possible, however, to change the purchase prices of individual variants, whether or not they inherit their sales prices from the generic article.)

The sales quantity for the generic article is always the sum of all the quantities for its variants. This has the following effect:

• If you increase the sales quantity for a variant, the sales quantity for the generic article is increased by the same amount.

• If you increase the quantity for the generic article, this additional amount is distributed to all its variants in whatever proportion existed among the variants prior to the increase.

You can change the quantities for the variants either directly on the overview screen, or by branching to the variant matrix screen.

Several features can help you process promotion data more quickly:

• You can select articles using various criteria (such as merchandise category, vendor, season) and set their promotion prices at the same time.

• You can select a range of market baskets and have the system copy all the articles (or selected articles) in the market baskets into the promotion, along with sales volumes.

• Mass maintenance controls (see below).

You can make changes to data for all articles in the promotion, or a subset thereof. For example, if you want to increase the sales prices by 10% across the board, or want to assign a different allocation rule to all articles within a merchandise category, and so on.

If you want to change parameters for all articles in the promotion, you select the appropriate column, then select the Mass maintenance button. A dialog box appears where you can make the changes. This works for just about all columns on the screen.

Alternatively, you can select a range of articles by selecting the Filter button and defining a subset of the articles in the promotion, then proceeding with mass maintenance.