Editing promoted product groups

Use this procedure to edit PPGs for use in Promotion Planning and Customer Trade Planning. If your company uses auto-generated codes, you cannot edit the PPG code.

About this task

Promoted Product Groups (PPGs) allow you to manage products by group in Promotion Planning & Execution and Customer Trade Planning. If your company is configured to automatically update promotions when PPGs are edited, changes to your PPGs may affect existing promotions that are in the planning phase. Your company may even apply these updates to locked promotions automatically. For more information about enabling automatic promotion updates when PPGs are modified, please contact your DemandTec by Acoustic representative.

Procedure

  1. Open the Product Groups page (Data > Product Groups).
    If you only want to change the name or description of the product group, you can click in the Description column to edit the field.
  2. Right-click on a PPG in the list, and choose Edit/View Details.
  3. You can change the product group Description and Code in the Promoted Product Group Summary area.
  4. To add individual products, choose the All Products - Detailed report. To add products by logistical unit (if your company uses this functionality), choose the Logistical Units report.
  5. Select a product category from the Category drop-down list.
    The reports show all active products within the category that are available to choose from. You can add products from multiple categories, but you must add products from one category at a time.
  6. Set the Include checkbox next to each product or logistical unit that you want in your group. Click the checkbox again to deselect.

    Each product and logistical unit can only belong to a single promoted product group. If an item belongs to another promoted product group, the name of the group will display in the Current PPG field. If you select an item that belongs to another promoted product group, it will be removed from that group and added to your new promoted product group.

    When selecting/deselecting individual products (from the All Products report), all logistical units for those products will be selected/deselected. When selecting products by logistical unit (from the Logistical Units report), all products for those logistical units will be selected. However, when deselecting logistical units, linked products will not be deselected.

  7. Click Apply to add the products to your promoted product group.
  8. Click Save when you are done to add the products and return to the Product Groups page.