Assignment of Discounts to Article Hierarchy Nodes 

Use

You use this function to define a sales price markdown for all the articles in an article hierarchy node.

Integration

You define the assignment of discounts to article hierarchy nodes in the Promotion function.

Prerequisites

A valid article hierarchy exists for the distribution chain that you entered in the header data for the promotion.

Features

·        You can use the multiple selection function to select several nodes from an article hierarchy simultaneously. You can use the following functions on the selection screen:

¡        Copy selected nodes: The system only copies the nodes that you have selected.

¡        Copy subnodes of selected nodes: The system copies lower-level nodes but not the actual nodes selected.

·        To assign different discounts for different periods to an article hierarchy node, you can define settings for the season and year. You can save them as a variant to use the settings again.

·        You can display the normal sales prices for the article hierarchy nodes that you have selected, to obtain up-to-date sales condition information when you are defining discounts.

We recommend that you do not display the sales conditions for all items at the same time as this can affect system performance.

·        You can use mass maintenance to define values, such as the absolute and the percentage discount or the unit of measure for items, for example.

If you have assigned discounts and then later change the validity periods of the article hierarchy node, the system does not automatically transfer these changes for the promotion discounts.

When you activate promotion discounts for a distribution-chain-dependent article hierarchy, the system checks that the site groups assigned to the promotion are for distribution chains only. The system only activates the discount condition records for sites whose distribution chains correspond to the article hierarchy.

If you change the assignment of articles to article hierarchy levels after you have created promotion discounts, the latest assignment status is always the one that applies in subsequent price determination.

Activities

To assign discounts to article hierarchy nodes, create a promotion on the tab page Discounts ® Article Hierarchy.