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 Trade Promotion Management

 

Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

CRM_TPM_1

Type of Business Function

Enterprise Business Function

Available As Of

SAP Enhancement Package 1 for SAP CRM 7.0

Technical Usage

CRM Core

Application Component

Trade Promotion Management (CRM-MKT-MPL-TPM)

Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition

Not relevant

You can use this business function to acquire increased business functions in the area of trade promotion management.

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:

Type of Component

Component

Is Needed Only for the Following Features

Software Component

BBPCRM701

Not relevant

Technical component or business content, e.g. Portal Content

BI Content 7.05

Not relevant

Features

Trade Promotion Agreements

Trade promotion agreements have been enhanced to allow you to do the following:

  • Create trade promotions from within a trade promotion agreement

  • View analyses from SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW)

For more information, see Trade Promotion Agreements.

Mass Approval

The mass approval process has been enhanced to allow you to do the following:

  • Mass approve trade promotions in the background

  • Mass approve trade promotions using parallel processing

  • View summary of changes made to trade promotions

  • Customize statuses to be set for mass approval

  • View the total key figure amounts to be mass approved

  • Search by promotion guideline and indirect indicator status

  • Download mass approval results list to a spreadsheet application

For more information, see Trade Promotion Approval and Re-Approval.

Parallel Processing

You can now use parallel processing when you mass approve, mass change, or mass copy trade promotions. The system previously processed these trade promotions sequentially, while the system now processes all these trade promotions simultaneously.

For more information, see Trade Promotion Approval and Re-Approval and Trade Promotion Management.

Spend Value Overview

The spend value overview is now available as a single place to enter spend values for multiple products and trade spends within a simple trade promotion.

For more information, see Spend Value Overview.

Sales Areas for Off-Invoice Trade Spend Checks

You can now specify, by sales area, if you allow the following to be added to trade promotions:

  • A check on off-invoice trade spends with dates in the past

  • Products with effective dates in the past when off-invoice trade spends with dates in the past exist

For more information, see Trade Spends and Dates.

Fund Usages

Fund usages have been enhanced to allow you to do the following:

  • Balance fund usages for a trade promotion from several places within a trade promotion

  • Use trade spend dates from trade promotion planning as the accrual date range for fund usages

For more information, see Fund Usages and Funds Integration.