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 Promotion Collaboration (Enhanced)

Use

As of SAP Supply Network Collaboration ( SAP SNC ) 5.1, Promotion Collaboration has been enhanced.

The following new features are available in the UI:

  • Manual promotion edit at the time buckets level

    This comprises the following:

    • Planning quantities of different sources, such as quantities from inbound ProductDemandInfluencingEventNotification, system planned or calculated, manual input are displayed.

    • Manual input for promotion sales forecast and order forecast quantities at the bucket level.

    • Manual changes are treated as final quantities and have higher priority than the quantities calculated by the system.

    • When manual changes are made, the automatic promotion calculation, for example, of a dynamic or reactive promotion is disabled.

      This means that the system treats the promotion as a static promotion.

    • Manual changes are only possible for future time buckets.

    • You can add buckets at the beginning and the end of promotion periods.

      You can add the buckets in the Promotion Planning screen under the Promotion Planningsection by choosing one of the following:

      • Add Period Before Start

      • Add Period After End

    • If you make changes beyond the planned promotion periods, the planned duration of the promotion is automatically extended

  • In SAP SNC 5.1, the term Promotion Demand is now used instead of Released Promotion Demand .

  • The names of the following key figures have been changed:

    • Planned Released Promotion Demand has been changed to Planned Promotion Demand

    • Final Promotion Demand

    • Manually Released Promotion Demand has been changed to Manually Changed Promotion Demand

    • Customer Released Promotion Demand has been changed to Customer Promotion Demand

    • Planned Promotion Forecast

    • Final Promotion Forecast

    • Manual Promotion Forecast has been changed to Manually Changed Promotion Forecast

    • Customer Promotion Forecast

  • In the Promotion Planning screen, the following key figures have been added:

    • Customer Promotion Forecast

      This is the promotional sales forecast data that has been sent by the customer using a ProductDemandInfluencingEventNotification.

    • Planned Promotion Forecast

      This is the promotion sales forecast data that has been calculated by the system based on promotion sales pattern.

    • Manual Changed Promotion Forecast

      This is the promotion sales forecast data that has been manually entered in the Promotion Planning screen.

    • Customer Promotion Demand

      This is the released promotion demand data that has been sent by the customer using a ProductDemandInfluencingEventNotification.

    • Planned Promotion Demand

      This is the released promotion demand data that has been calculated by system based on the promotion distribution pattern.

    • Manually Changed Promotion Demand

      This is the released promotion demand that has been manually entered in SAP SNC.

  • Manual changes to promotion patterns, promotion profiles, and event types

    • You can now make manual changes, such as replacing promotion patterns or using another event type on an existing promotion.

    • Manual changes are only possible for promotions that start in future, not for ones that are currently running or past

  • Releasing the promotion

    • You can now make the changed promotion data available for replenishment planning by releasing the promotion.

    • You can also use report /SCA/FCST60_DEMAND_RELEASE to release demands. To access the report, in the SAP Easy Access menu, choose Start of the navigation path Demand Next navigation step Demand Release Next navigation step Release Demand End of the navigation path.

  • Sending the promotion to a collaboration partner

    You can now use report /SCA/DM_TIMESERIES_OUT_DMDINF to send DemandInfluencingEventNotification, which sends a promotion to a collaboration partner. You use this function, for example, after you have changed a promotion manually in the Promotion Planning screen.

  • Promotion status

    There are more promotion statuses available in SAP SNC 5.1 (see below).

  • Draft promotions

    The XML Draft Promotions screen has been enhanced to include the following:

    • You can delete draft promotions on the XML Draft Promotion screen by choosing Delete Draft on the XML Draft Promotion screen.

    • You can now change the location and product.

  • The Promotion Planning screen has been enhanced to include the following:

    New selection fields have been added that allow you to do the following:

    • Select promotions using an APN (Alternate Product Number) to align with other SAP SNC 5.1 screens.

    • Select promotions using the event type and promotion status.

  • The variants of the Released Promotion Demand key figure have been renamed.

    The word Released has been dropped from the key figure names.

The following functions have been enhanced:

  • Creating or setting a promotion as inactive.

    You can now create a promotion with an inactive status or set an active promotion to inactive.

    The following active statuses are available:

    • Active

      The planned promotion reaches its start date and is being executed. In SAP ICH 5.0, this status covered the scope of the Planned status, but in SAP SNC 5.1, the Active status is restricted to the provided definition.

    • Planned

      The promotion is set to take place and is to be replenished.

    • Completed

      The promotion was active and has passed its end date.

      The following inactive statuses are available:

    • Confirmed by customer

      The promotion has been acknowledged by customer and may not be in a planned or active status.

    • Draft

      The promotion has been created in an inactive status. It is not visible for other planning processes, such as forecast, replenishment, and Transport Load Builder (TLB ).

    • Expired

      This promotion was in an inactive status for replenishment. It has passed its start date without being executed (turned into an active status for replenishment).

    • Offered

      This promotion has been proposed by the customer or the supplier to its business partner.

    • Rejected

      This promotion proposal has been rejected by the respondent. The promotion must now be modified and proposed again, or it will not take place.

    • Completed

      The promotion was active and passed its end date.

    • Stop Completely

      The promotion is canceled.

    • Stop Ordering

      Promotion demand is not replenished. But promotion planning is still running, for example, to generate promotion demand and to later track and evaluate.

      Other features include the following:

    • The quantities of an inactive promotion are not displayed in the Promotionkey figure on the Short-Term Forecast screen.

    • Inactive promotions do not affect cannibalization and post promotion dip quantities.

    • The quantities of an inactive promotion are not released to follow-up planning processes, such as replenishment and TLB .

    • Inactive promotions can be set to active manually or through the inbound ProductDemandInfluencingEventNotification.

  • Promotion quantities, such as promotion sales forecast and promotion order forecast, can be received through ProductDemandInfluencingEventNotification at the time buckets level (as time series)

    • The totals of, for example, the promotion sales forecast and order forecast key figures are equal.

      If these totals are not equal, an alert is issued.

    • If only one of the data series is sent in, the promotion total will be calculated based on this data series.

    • The other data series is calculated based on promotion patterns in the same way as it is in SAP SCM 5.0.

  • Issue alerts when there is no active promotion for sent-in quantities

    Promotion quantities, such as sales history and out-of-stock can be sent by the vendor’s customer through ProductActivityNotificationsor manually entered on the Data Import Controller screen. If data is sent or entered manually, and there is no active promotion to accept the data, an alert (in case of ProductActivityNotifications inbound) or a message (if this is a UI operation) is issued.

    The alert can be viewed on the Alert Monitor screen under the Demand Planning tab page.

  • Define the maximum and minimum total values at the item level for a reactive promotion.

    These values can help avoid an extremely high or low total value to be calculated by reactive promotion. You can make this change in the Promotions Creation screen or the Promotion Planning screen.

  • DemandInfluencingEventNotification

    • The TypeCode now supports the customizable external codes.

    • External type code values can be sent in by the vendor’s customer and are accepted by the inbound process. A mapping of external type codes to internal promotion event types is available in the Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration. This mapping is based on the business partner, location, and product.

    • External status values can be sent in by the vendor’s customer and are now accepted by the inbound process. A mapping of external status to internal promotion status is available in the Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration.

  • SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence ( SAP NetWeaver BI) Extractor for Promotion

    An SAP NetWeaver BI Extractor is now available to extract the promotion fields, such as Promotion ID, Location, Product, Business Partner, event type, patterns, planned and actual quantities, and so on, for subsequent reporting and analysis.

  • BAdI for XML-generated Promotion ID

    If ProductDemandInfluencingEventNotification does not have an external promotion ID, an internal promotion ID is generated in SAP SNC by default based on the message timestamp. A new BAdI is available that allows you to specify the internal promotion ID.

Effects on Customizing

  • You can maintain customer event mappings in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration by choosing Start of the navigation path Basic Settings Next navigation step Processing Inbound and Outbound Messages Next navigation step Promotion Next navigation step Maintain Customer Event Status End of the navigation path .

  • You can maintain event type codes in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration by choosing Start of the navigation path Basic Settings Next navigation step Processing Inbound and Outbound Messages Next navigation step Promotion Next navigation step Maintain Event Type Codes End of the navigation path.

  • To access the BAdI for the XML-generated Promotion ID, use the following information:

    • Technical name: SAPAPO/ICH_PROM_EXT

    • Method: PROMOTION_ID_SET

See Also

Release notes on Demand Release (New).