Additional Date Ranges for Trade Promotions
You can enter planned and actual dates for a marketing project.
You do this in the Dates
assignment block of
the marketing project. You can also define additional date ranges. These are
customizable date ranges that you may maintain in addition to the planned
and actual date ranges in the Dates
assignment
block. These dates could be, for example, buying periods, promotion dates,
pre-dip or post-dip date ranges, or whatever best suits your business needs.
Prerequisites
You have made the following settings in Customizing for Customer
Relationship Management
under 
Marketing
Marketing Planning and Campaign Management
Basic Data
Define Additional
Date Ranges
:
Defined a name for the date range
Set the period type that indicates the purpose of the date
Indicated whether the date ranges are part of the buying pattern date interval (for trade promotions and deals only)
You do this by selecting the
Buying pattern
checkbox beside each additional date range.Optionally, selected a
Search Date ID
to associate with theDate ID
that you will configure to include as a search parameter.Optionally, selected an
Extract Date ID
to map the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) date range to the date range structure in SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI).
Note
Account defaults have priority over the date ranges, therefore, date values may be overwritten when default values are generated.
In the
Dates
assignment block, you cannot remove a maintained date range if there is one or more trade spends linked to this date range. You must delete the linked trade spends first.
Features
You can define account default rules that enter default values for these additional date ranges under
Marketing
Account Defaults
.
You can define up to 99 additional date ranges for trade promotions and deals, and eight can be included as search parameters under
Marketing
Trade Promotions
.