SAP Demand Signal Management
Data Model
Master Data
Context
Handling Descriptions
Handling Products
Example: Product Data
Units of Measure
Handling Units of Measure
Handling Locations
Handling Time
Handling Hierarchies
Company-Internal Hierarchies
Market Research Hierarchies
Transaction Data
Handling Transaction Data from Retailers
Example: Use of CompositeProviders for Sales Data
Handling Retail Panel Data from Market Research Companies
Enhancing the Data Model
Example: Adding New Attributes
Data Flow
Data Flow for Master Data
Steps in the Data Flow for Master Data
Data Flow for Transaction Data
Steps in the Data Flow for Aggregated Sales Data or Stock Snapsh
Steps in the Data Flow for Retail Panel Data
Process Chains in the Data Flow
Process Flow Control
Processes, Steps, and Process Chains
Managing the Process Flow
Upload Stages
Parallelization
Status Management
Automatic Status Propagation
Error Handling
Errors in Data Delivery Agreements
Errors
Errors in Steps
Resolving Step Errors (I)
Resolving Step Errors (II)
Process Monitor
User Actions on Processes
Data Reload
User Actions on Steps
Example: Manual Status Change from Ready to On Hold
Job Monitor
Administrative Tasks Job
Clean Archived Instances Job
Housekeeping
Data Upload
Data Origins, Data Providers, and Data Delivery Agreements
Data Sets
File Sets
Interaction Between the Load Manager and Process Flow Control
Supervising Automatic Data Uploads
Scheduling Background Jobs for Automatic Data Uploads
Example: Job
Integration of the Daemon Framework
Control Job
Completion Checks for Data Deliveries
Errors in Data Deliveries
Data Consistency
Automatic Data Upload with Folder Scanner
Scanning CSV Files
Scanning SDX Files
Folder Scanner
Technical Settings for File Upload
Example: Folder Scanner Failure
Automatic Data Upload with PSA Scanner
PSA Scanner
Settings for Detecting New PSA Data
Market Research Data Upload
DataSources and Extract Structures
Parallelizing Extraction Using Multiple InfoPackages
Settings for Uploading Retail Panel Data
Example: File Types
Self-Descriptive Exchange Format
Example: Metafile Fields and Column Positions
Mapping External Fields
Mapping: Prerequisites
Mapping Column-Based Structures
Mapping Hierarchies
Mapping Name/Value Pairs
Name/Value Pairs in Retail Panel Data
Mapping Synonyms
Automatic Upload of Retail Panel Data
Manual Data Upload
Quality Validation
Overview of Key Figures in Quality Validation
Data Harmonization
Harmonized Objects and Source Objects
Example: Harmonized Product with Assigned Source Products
Object Types Used in Data Harmonization
Identifying Attributes of Products and Locations
Work Items
Units of Measure
Name/Value Pairs
Search Strategy
User-Specific Parameters
Administrating Data Harmonization
Setting Up Data Harmonization
Settings That Depend on Data Origins
Defining Allowed Attribute Values
Scheduling Background Jobs
Automatic Data Harmonization
Automatic Mapping
Attribute Value Harmonization
Manual Data Harmonization
Worklists
User-Specific Parameters
Manual Mapping
Resolving or Disregarding Work Items in Manual Mapping
Determining Mapping Proposals
Comparing Selected Objects
Assigning Source Objects to a Harmonized Object
Example: Manual Mapping Using Proposals
Example: Manual Mapping Using Manual Search
Example: Manual Mapping Without Using Work Items
Editing Harmonized Objects
Editing Source Objects
Mapping Attribute Values to Allowed Values
Data Enrichment
Sales Data Enrichment
Periods with Sales Deviations
Location Calendar
Stock Data Enrichment
Overview of Key Figures in Data Enrichment
Executing Data Enrichment
Enhancing the Data Enrichment Process
Analytics and Reporting
On-Shelf Availability by Product
On-Shelf Availability by Location
On-Shelf Availability Analysis by Product
On-Shelf Availability Analysis by Location
Out-of-Stock Situations by Product
Out-of-Stock Situations by Location
Out-of-Stock Analysis by Product
Out-of-Stock Analysis by Location
Stock Analysis by Product
Stock Analysis by Location
Sales Analysis
Product Launch
Promotion Analysis
Worklist
Key Figures for SAP Demand Signal Management
CHIP Catalog for SAP Demand Signal Management
Authorization Roles for SAP Demand Signal Management
Administrator
Data Upload Supervisor
Harmonization User
Support User Role for Demand Data Foundation
Demand and Supply Planner
Key Account Manager
Marketing Director
Product Manager
Sales Director
BI Content