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SAP Promotion Management for Retail (PMR)

Criado por Barbara Tine, última alteração por Luis Lopez em fev 04, 2015

SAP software helps retailers maximize sales by planning promotional offers and advertising to match consumer preferences. As consumers grow more sophisticated and channels and vendor contracts
proliferate, automated planning of promotions and advertising campaigns becomes essential to competitive edge. SAP solutions integrate merchandising and marketing users on a common platform for
managing pricing and content holistically. Benefits include a reduction of the manual workload, tighter channel and vendor management, and increased collaboration. Promotion and advertising planning
raises customer loyalty and satisfaction levels, ultimately boosting sales and profitability.

Collaboration
SAP Promotion Management for Retail provides a single platform that allows business users to collaborate quickly and effectively throughout the entire promotion planning and execution
lifecycle.

This collaboration approach:

Reduces Errors - Will the price advertised to the shopper be rung at the POS? Is advertising space being maximized? Advertising the same product in multiple locations may lead to missed
opportunities to maximize the promotion space and increase overall execution costs
Minimizes Planning Time - No more manual proofs or excel spreadsheets to be emailed and reviewed - print previews are reviewed in real time with automatic generation of requests to print new
photos or request new ad copy. Lower advertising related expenses the time and materials associated with exchanging proofs, holding meetings, having conference calls and the costs related to
ad agency fees are dramatically reduced
Accelerates Innovation - Demand driven forecast and optimization capabilities allow for the creation of new promotional offers and deals with the security of a financial forecast that is in
line with overall merchandising strategies. By combining promotion planning with price and markdown optimization, an overall financial category view can be generated which can highlight promotional
opportunities in geography or category based on varied demand patterns

Marketing & Merchandising groups can work together with a single vision and understanding of the shopper to ensure a satisfying shopping experience no conflicting or overlapping offers that is
financially profitable for the merchandiser and increases shopper loyalty for marketing.

Vendors & Retailers can collaborate and execute on trade funds more quickly, driven by a common understanding of the shopper. Promotion Management for Retail allows vendors to propose trade funds
or offers to the consumer that may be automatically forecasted and executed through the retailers planning & execution systems.

Mobility
SAP Promotion Management for Retail enables planning and execution of promotions across channels, including mobile. Retailers may define unique and targeted promotions that are specific
to the consumers and demand stream generated by mobile device users.

SAP Promotion Management for Retail provides a single backbone for all promotion planning throughout the retail enterprise, allowing the promotion planner to determine the customer segment, available
channels, and variations in price or advertising content. With the push of a button a single promotional offer can be modified quickly to be displayed on a mobile device, offered at a deeper price discount
to a specific consumer segment, and enlarged as an in-store poster for a specific geography.

Multi-Channel
SAP Promotion Management for Retail provides a complete multi-channel planning and execution capability for promotions. Users can plan a single promotion and make it available across
channels or create unique promotions based on specific channel demand or dynamics. Flexible and configurable channel and customer segment hierarchies allow for easy variations of promotions like
price, picture and activation dates.

Complete forecasting and optimization capabilities based on channels. Ability to aggregate or segregate demand streams across channels to provide a unified view of the shopper.

Demand Driven & Financially Optimal

Underlying the SAP Promotion Management for Retail application is the Customer Activity Repository leveraging the Demand Data Foundation and Unified Demand Forecast, which provide predictive
demand driven forecasts and customer centric simulations for all promotion planning across channels and customer segments. Retailers can quickly compare different promotion opportunities to ensure
that the promotion will deliver against their financial objectives while also being attractive to shoppers and generating loyalty.

As promotions are planned and grouped with other campaigns or events, the forecasting engine dynamically responds and updates the overall view for the category or promotion event.

Demand forecasts from Promotion Management for Retail can be automatically interfaced to SAP ECC and F&R for the purpose of procurement, allocations, and replenishment directly to the stores. As
promotions are changed and forecasts updated, this information will flow automatically through to connected business processes.

Segmentation & Loyalty

SAP Promotion Management for Retail supports the majority of offer types executed across retail segments grocery, hard lines and fashion. This includes targeted promotions based on
customer segments or loyalty offers associated with rewards or points programs.

SAP Promotion Management for Retail can connect to a variety of loyalty systems, including SAP’s marketing solutions such as SAP CRM, hybris and SAP’s Audience Discovery and Targeting. With
SAP’s solutions, retailers can manage existing loyalty rules, build dynamic customer segments, and manage overall marketing and promotion budgets.

What's new in Promotion Management for Retail?

The latest release of Promotion Management for Retail has some exciting new features that help merchandising, marketing and advertising departments better collaborate and manage the complexity of
planning profitable promotions across multiple channels. It takes the guess work out of promotion planning by providing science based forecasting and simulation and is tightly integrated with SAP's supply
chain processes to enable an unprecedented level of automation within the entire end to end promotional processes.

Here are some highlights of the Promotion Management for Retail 8.1 release offered on the HANA based Customer Activity Repository:

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Promotion Management for Retail now leverages the Unified Demand Forecast (UDF) which is the new generation of forecasting for SAP Retail planning applications. UDF combines strengths of the
forecast capabilities from SAP Promotion Management for Retail and SAP Forecasting and Replenishment at the speed of SAP HANA
Enhancements to the Offer Type & Incentive Offer Construction supports basket level offers and the ability to uniquely promote an article for each selling unit of measure
Enhancements to the Offer Versioning
Improvements to the templates used in the Offer Preview
Creation of a new Event Preview view for the Merchant/Buyer
Integrated a Printer’s MAP for Versioning at the Printer

Getting Started with SAP Promotion Management for Retail

Plan and Execute Effective Retail Promotions - New Solution Brief on Promotion Management for Retail.
Detailed Documentation on PMR What does it do and how does it work? Get down into the details of the SAP Promotion Management for Retail solution in the SAP Help Portal.
SAP Transforms Promotion Management for Retail Press Release - Learn how the latest release of Promotion Management for Retail aims to make promotions management a precise science.
Brookshire Grocery Company Boosts Shopper Satisfaction with SAP Software and SAP Promotion Management for Retail - Read more about how the Texas-based grocer, Brookshire, plans to use the
SAP® Promotion Management for Retail application to help it develop and execute effective promotions, create accurate print media, and place and price merchandise correctly across their 150 stores.

Qualification - Curriculum
For first classroom trainings on SAP Promotions Management, please contact mailto:christina.huber@sap.com (Phone: +49 (0) 6227 7 71493)
See the dates and content of the classroom trainings including SAP Promotion Mgmt. for Retail W26PMR visit SAP for Retail Workshops in St. Ingbert - Germany

Release specific information for SAP Promotion Management for Retail

SAP PMR 8.0 on Customer Activity Repository 1.0 SP00
SAP PMR 8.0 on Customer Activity Repository 1.0 SP01
SAP PMR 8.0 on SAP Customer Activity Repository 1.0 SP02
SAP PMR 8.0 on SAP Customer Activity Repository 1.0 SP03
SAP PMR 8.0 on SAP Customer Activity Repository 1.0 SP04
SAP PMR 8.0 on SAP Customer Activity Repository 1.0 SP05
SAP Promotion Management for Retail 8.1 SP00

Documentation
SAP Promotion Management 8.1 in the Help Portal – Contains links to the Installation Guide and Administrator’s Guide.

Online Knowledge Products

Solution Explorer > End-to-End Solutions > Promotions
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