You can enter discounts for a large number of articles in a promotion quickly and easily. For example, you can create discounts for:

• All or selected articles of a promotion

• All articles within a base merchandise category

• All articles within a merchandise category hierarchy level (either one or two levels above the base merchandise category level)

• All articles, for example, for a given store or within a distribution channel

Discounts can be either for an absolute value (for example, $1.00) or a percentage (for example, 20%). Discounts can be on the following levels:

• Store

• Price list

• Distribution channel

You choose which level you want by assigning the appropriate the price activation type.

Discounts for a range of promotions can be downloaded via POS Outbound Processing. When you choose manual request, you can select the field for preparing promotion discounts. There is also an IDoc type for promotion discounts: WPDREB01.

In Customizing for promotion types, you can assign discount condition types for absolute value discounts and for percentage discounts. These become the default for any promotions you subsequently create using that promotion type. You assign condition tables to the condition types in Customizing: Retail promotion ® Control for condition tables for promotion discounts.

To maintain discounts in a promotion:

1. Create the promotion.

2. On the Fast Entry screen, assign one or more articles to the promotion.

3. Go to the discount tabstrip and enter a discount for the article.

4. Still within the tabstrip, activate the article.

5. Save the promotion. The system then creates the discount conditions.

You can also deactivate articles and resave the promotion.

To change an existing discount amount, first deactivate the article, then enter the new discount amount and resave the promotion.