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LEARNING POINTS
SAP Retail Promotions is an application that helps retailers identify the promotions that will be most profitable based on
true shopper demand. SAP Retail Promotions provides support for planning promotions, forecasting their performance, and
creating a single platform that allows business users to collaborate quickly and effectively throughout the entire promotion
planning and execution lifecycle.
Connect promotion planning, creation, forecasting, and execution process to improve promotion effectiveness and profitability
Process Goals
Build Area and Block Templates used to create the Events page layouts that can be viewed and printed
Manage variations by product, locations, and date
Forecast impact of promotional offers & deals
Key Output
End Result is approved promotional events and offers that are transferred to ECC for execution at point of sale
Data Management
Create Events
Assign Templates
Offer
Creation
Assign Offer
To Event
Manage Block, Area, & Content Templates; Product & LOC Groups
<Display Price>
<Unit>.
Promotion Analysis
Analysis Modeler
Product
Groups
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Site
Groups
Store 1
Store 2
Store 3
<Reg Price>
Transfer
-Event Transferred to
ECC 5 weeks before Ad
Break
Offer
Modeling
& Analysis;
Vendor Funds
Forecast
2500.-
SPAR
499.
LIVA kombi-sknk
Event Schedule
2999.-
Content
Selection
Export to POS
POS Outbound
AMS WESOUT
2500.-
SPAR
499.
LIVA kombi-sknk
2999.-
Proof
Corrections
Advertising
Ad Specialists
Pricing Analysts
Offer
Campaign
Area
Event
(Collection of Offers)
(Collection of Areas)
(Collection of Events)
Display Image 1
Product
Headline
Product
Description 1
Location
(Store or Web)
Location Hierarchy
Display
Promo Price
Save Story
(Group of Stores)
Block Elements
Allow creation and re-use of Product Groups streamlining the Buyers process
Greater
More
Lower
End Users:
Category Manager; Category Manager Assistants
AD Specialists; Advertising
CM Analytics; Pricing Analytics
Merchandising; ICAs
Project Note: Ramp Up Customer
Original Estimated Timeline: 24 Weeks
BGC Project Team: 9 Full-Time Resources
SAP Project Team: 2 Full-Time Resources
14
Back Office
Team
RU Owner
Development
SAP Support
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Complete
Blueprint
Business Go Live
Phase III Forecasting
07/30 08/27
08/27 11/24
11/12 04/22
11/12 04/03
08/27 04/03
Complete Blueprint
(Phase I)
(Phase II)
(Phase III)
FDDs
Promotions
Execution
Forecasting
FRICE
ECC Business
Functions/Web
Services
(Ongoing through
Phases)
Blueprint Gate
Review and Sign Off
New Promo
Types/BBs
UAT/Training
Promotions entered
into PMR
AMS Interface
Technical Specs
Development
Unit Testing
Offer number
generated in PMR flows
through entire system
Requires NCR
modifications
No changes to Retail
POS
Required modifications to
link sales to all PMR offers
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DTP
BW Extraction (ZSEC)
SAP Retail
Promotions
Promotion
Planning
SAP ECC
Promotion
SAP BI
Promotion
Effectiveness
Analytics
Released Event Plan
BW Extraction
Master
Data/
Inventory
Outbound
DMF
Sales History
AMS
POS
4
7
POSDM
POS Inbound Processing
Template Creation
Creation of Event
Assign Templates to Event
Ad Specialists
Pricing Analysts
LESSONS LEARNED
Lessons Learned
Assign a dedicated ECC Pricing & Promotions resource
Plan go-live approach early in the project
Document & finalize process flows early in the project
Ensure all parties are in agreement on scope and what it
means in terms of processes, job functions and expected
results
Ensure gaps are clearly defined and accommodated for, in
some way
Identify RICEF objects early during project preparation if
possible
KEY LEARNINGS
PMR is the system of record for offers feeds into ECC
Multiple areas & processes are touched
PMR offers a one-stop-shop for promotions & offers
feeding into ECC, DTP, Ad creation and execution at the
POS. Resultant data allows for forecasting and analytics
Sales data & promotional data is matched for
forecasting