Planning Promotions

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to plan Promotions

Promotion Planning

Creating and managing trade promotions involves the following steps:

Value Proposition

  • Manage short and long term promotions: KAMs can manage and track both tactical short-term promotions and strategic long-term promotions to respond to market opportunities quickly.
  • Give more time back to KAMs to focus on their customers: It takes less than two minutes to create a promotion, giving more time back to KAMs so that they can strengthen customer relationships and develop partnerships.
  • Centralize promotion planning and execution: All promotional activities are maintained in a central application, providing a single source of truth and eliminating silo-ed planning process.
  • Access to promotion plans and calendars across products: Promotion plans and calendars provide clear visibility to entire product portfolio, enabling better coordination across brands.
  • Streamline approval process with configurable workflow: Configurable workflow engine ensures the flexibility of approval and accelerates the promotion approval process.
  • Provide data-drive insights for better decision-making: Built-in analytics capability transforms historical promotion performance into insights, enabling key account managers continuously improve ROI on trade spend.

Create a new Promotion

Copy Promotions

Highlights

  • Manage short and long term promotions at multiple levels with configurable spend types.
  • Copy, re-use and amend previous promotions.
  • Visualize promotion plans over time with promotion calendar.
  • Integrated with SAP IBP to send uplifts for demand planning.
  • Configurable workflows to enable flexible approval flows.
  • Out-of-box integration with S/4 for financial execution.