Exception Analysis and Automatic Promotion Creation 

Purpose

In addition to creating promotions manually, you can have the system analyze sales data and let you know when a promotion is advisable. For example, you can create an exception report that lists the 100 articles with the lowest sales revenue for the previous month. When the analysis is run, Workflow will send a work item to the person responsible for promotions, who can then examine the results and determine whether a promotion should be created or not. If so, the system will create the promotion automatically.

Process Flow

1.       You define an exception analysis in RIS, specifying that the exception must be run in batch mode.

-         In subsequent processing for the exception, specify that the data is to be transferred to Workflow as a table.

-         Define article and store as characteristics, and define sales revenue as a requirement.

2.       Assign the exception analysis to the standard event PromotionCreate (business object MCYA) using transaction AWUW. Set the event coupling to the exception as active.

3.       Define the organizational data and assign it to Workflow task TS20000723. Then activate the event coupling to Workflow.

4.       Execute the exception analysis in batch mode.

5.       The person responsible receives a Workflow message. Based on the exception data, he or she then determines whether or not a promotion should be created. If so, the system will create the promotion automatically.