Planning for Target Groups 

Purpose

If you select a target group as a planning customer, you need to make certain changes to be able to use this information for planning purposes.

Planning is not carried out at target group level but at business partner hierarchy level so you need to convert the target group information to this format. The level of aggregation is specified by the leading column field for the hierarchy node in the planning layout (for example, the field 0BP_GRP_A02 is for level 2). See Specifying Hierarchies.

Once you take a target group as a planning customer in a trade promotion, you should not make any more changes to this target group.

There are no PPR checks or listing checks if the planning customer is a target group.

Process

The target group is converted into a list of business partners in the SAP CRM System and derived to a list of business partner hierarchy nodes from the required level of the business partner hierarchy. If a business partner in the target group is at a higher level in the hierarchy than the required level, this higher level hierarchy node would be derived.

 

For more information on planning, see Key Figure Planning in the Marketing Planner.