Integration with SAP SCM Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning
For key figure planning in trade promotions, you can also use the Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning components of SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM). Using Demand Planning, you can forecast the market demand for your company's products. Trade promotions are also causal factors that influence demand. To be able to take these factors into account when creating a demand plan, the trade promotions that you created in SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) must be updated in SAP SCM.
Prerequisites
You have made the settings in Customizing for Customer
Relationship Management
under 
Trade
Promotion Management
System Landscape
.
Process
You create a trade promotion.
You save the trade promotion.
SAP CRM transfers the planning data for the trade promotion to SAP SCM, if the system status allows it.
In SAP SCM, a promotion is created with status
In Process
.You save the promotion with status
Planned, In the Future or Active, in Current Periods
.
NoteIf you change a promotion that has been created in SAP SCM, the change data is not transferred to SAP CRM.
If you change a trade promotion in SAP CRM, the changed data is transferred to SAP SCM. Since the status of the promotions in SAP SCM is automatically reset to
In Process
, you have to activate the promotion again in SAP SCM.End of the note.
Result
The promotion can be taken into account in the Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning components of SAP SCM. If the data for the planned uplift quantities and the demand plan is different, you can harmonize planning in SAP CRM and SAP SCM and incorporate the capacities of the supply chain into the planning process in SAP CRM. If the demand planner confirms that he or she cannot include the planned uplift quantity of a trade promotion in the demand plan, the demand planner can notify the trade promotion planner and they can try to find a solution.