You can display a listing of all promotion articles assigned to a site, and all sites that are able to carry a specific article. For each article, the system displays data which includes, for example, prices, margins, listing status, announcement status, overall processing status, etc. SAP Retail’s table control technique allows you to move the columns around, suppress or display various types of information, and so on.

The following reports are also available:

• Margins (arithmetic mean) for promotion articles

• Margins (weighted) for promotional articles

• List of all prices relevant to the promotion (purchase prices, distribution center price, store retail price)

• Sales price list with normal sales price vs. promotion price

The report showing weighted margins, for example, shows the revenue to be generated, multiplied by the margin for each article involved. By running this report, for example, you can see in advance how effective your promotion will be. If the results are not to your liking, you can increase the margins and recalculate the revenue until the results are satisfactory.

In most cases, you can drill down on individual items on the screen to see further details.

Whenever a change is made to a promotion, R/3 always creates a change document automatically. This serves as an audit trail, showing:

• Who made the change

• When the change was made

• Exactly what changes were made

You can view the change documents by selecting Reporting from the Promotion menu. Different icons appear, depending on whether it was an actual change or a deletion.

Change documents are for display only.

You can display statistics on current and past promotions so that you can evaluate and compare how well they did.

From the Promotion menu, you can select Analyses and then branch directly into the Information System. You can then select individual promotions or a range of promotions that you want to compare, or select a time frame and see all promotions that occurred during that time. You can also see, for example, how well an article in a promotion sold in different stores. You can drill down into a promotion to see statistics on the individual articles. Here, too, you can choose which key figures to display in which order on the screen (for example, gross margin and lost sales dollars).

You can display all of the reports discussed above for past promotions as well.