Sales orders can also be used in combination with promotions. All the standard document types are available for sales orders. You can decide for each distribution chain whether the system should search for relevant promotions (i.e., carry out promotion determination) when a sales order is entered.

The promotion number can be entered at both header and item level.

Several promotions may be valid for a given article at the same time. But when you enter an article in a sales order, its price can only be taken from a single promotion (since the order can contain only one price per article). In Customizing for Retail, you can specify in the sales document type whether the this promotion determination will be automatic or manual. Then at sales order entry time:

• If determination is automatic, the system will select a promotion from which to derive prices. (The system selects the first valid promotion.)

• If determination is manual, the user will be able to display all valid promotions for that article and choose one.

You define an order period in the promotion during which the sales price conditions for the promotion apply. When you create a sales order, the system checks the pricing date against the promotion order period. It only calculates a promotion price for the order if the pricing date is within the order period of the promotion concerned. Today’s date must be set as the pricing date.

You can also define delivery periods in a promotion during which goods are delivered to customers (or - if your company is a wholesaler - to retailers). The delivery date for schedule lines requested in the order should be within the delivery period specified in the promotion.