You can copy promotion data into a product catalog. By assigning the number of an existing promotion to a product catalog, you can then copy some or all articles from the promotion into the catalog. This makes creating a catalog for a specific promotion very easy.

In the product catalog function, this works the same way as it does for copying articles from a merchandise category, layout module, or class.

The product catalog specifies exactly how merchandise is to appear; that is, which articles are associated with which sections of the catalog, which images are to be shown, plus pricing information. You can export product catalogs to external software (for example, QuarkXPressÒ) for layout and printing.

Since the SAP online store is based on product catalog functionality, you can also integrate promotion data into the online store.

Within the Promotion component, you can also display a list of all product catalogs that are assigned to a given promotion.

In order to copy promotion articles into a product catalog, you assign product catalog type 002 to the catalog. This causes an extra field Promotion to appear on the product catalog basic data screen. Here you can enter the promotion number.

Product catalog type 0002 is delivered with the R/3 software. However, in Customizing you can create additional product catalog types that are valid for promotions, using 0002 as a reference. In this case, you must make sure that you activate the promotion checkbox.