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 Data Realignment for Promotion

Use

You can specify demands that occur due to promotions for each period on the SAP Easy Access screen under Start of the navigation path Advanced Planning and Optimization Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP) Next navigation step Environment Next navigation step Data Administration Next navigation step Adjust Demand History End of the navigation path . If you have marked demands as promotion demands with a 1in the Promotion field on this screen, the planning service “SPP: Data Realignment for Promotion” realigns the demand history.

For more information, see Adjusting the Demand History .

Note Note

If you have set the Status w. Errors indicator in the service profile of this planning service, the planning service also processes promotion demands with the status 3.

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Prerequisites

You have scheduled the “SPP: Data Realignment for Promotion“(SPP_PDEM_PROMOTION_RLG) in the Planning Service Manager (PSM).

In the process profile, you have specified the method LOCATIONPRODUCT_PROMOTION as the package creation method.

For more information, see Use of the Planning Service Manager in SPP and PSM Services for Demand History Creation .

Recommendation Recommendation

We recommend that you schedule this planning service for previous periods at the start of each period.

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Features

This planning service receives all location products from the PSM product selection whose demands are marked as promotion demands. It compares the demand histories of these location products with their forecast values. If the demand history of a location product is higher than its forecast value, the planning service assigns the demand category PROMO_DEM to all demands for this location product that exceed the forecast value.

Recommendation Recommendation

End of the recommendation.

We recommend that you mark the demand category PROMO_DEM as not forecast-relevant. For more information, see Assignment of Demand Categories .

The following figure shows the demand that exceeds the forecasted demand during a promotion and which the planning service assigned to the demand category PROMO_DEM .

The planning service writes the changed data to the DataStore objects 9ARAWCRT and 9ADEMCRT. It also changes the promotion indicator of the promotion demands on the Adjust Demand History screen from 1 to 2 , and sets the trigger SPP_RLG_DONE. This triggers the forecasting service.