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Event

An event is a short-term influence, such as a sales deal, on the value and quantity fields of your operating concern. You can take the effects of such events into account in planning.

From a technical point of view, an event is a time-based revaluation key with which you can perform percentage as well as cumulative revaluation.

There are two types of event that you can define:

• Standard events
  These events can be applied non-specifically to all planning data.

• Segment-specific events
  These events are dependent on a specific characteristic and you can define several of them in a single planning session. An example of a segment-specific event could be a sales promotion for summer clothing planned for the month of May. This event is expected to influence different regions in different ways, whereby a greater increase in sales is anticipated in southern Europe than in northern Europe. You specify in an access key the necessary control information for the segment-specific events.

Events can be used with the manual entry of planning data as well as applied to your planning data in the planning method event.