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Function documentationDetermination of Sales and Distribution Patterns from Promotion Messages for Multiple Promotions

 

In a DemandInfluencingEventNotification XML message (promotion message), the customer can send promotion data (location products, promotion quantities, and time buckets) for multiple promotions to SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC). To create multiple promotions, SAP SNC must determine a promotion ID and a sales and distribution pattern for each of the promotions. If the customer sends promotion data that contains time series with daily time buckets, the following methods for determining the sales and distribution pattern are available:

  • In the standard system, SAP SNC uses the promotion quantities from the daily time buckets to automatically determine a sales and distribution pattern for each of the promotions.

  • Alternatively, you can use the sales and distribution pattern that you have maintained in the promotion profile. To use the sales and distribution pattern that you have maintained in the promotion profile, SAP SNC can automatically aggregate the quantities of the daily time buckets in the promotion message to calculate a total promotion quantity. Once SAP SNC has determined the total promotion quantity for the promotion, it can use the sales and distribution pattern from the promotion profile.

To use this function, you must activate the business function Supply Network Collaboration 1 (SCM_SNC_GEN_1).

Prerequisites

You have defined a sales and distribution pattern in your promotion profile. You maintain promotion profiles on the SAP Easy Access screen, under Start of the navigation path Supply Network Collaboration Next navigation step Demand Next navigation step Promotion Next navigation step Current Settings Next navigation step Maintain Promotion Profiles End of the navigation path.

To aggregate the daily time buckets to calculate a total promotion quantity and to distribute the promotion data using the sales and distribution pattern defined in the promotion profile, you have selected the Sales and Distribution Pattern Based on Total Quantity checkbox in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration under Start of the navigation path Demand Next navigation step Promotion Next navigation step Settings for Inbound Promotion XML Messages Next navigation step Define Settings for Inbound Processing of Promotion XML Messages End of the navigation path.