PPR – Partner Product Range

PPR – Partner Product Range

 

§Partner Product Range – It allows to maintain a combination of Partner , Material , Sales Area and time . 

§System has the feature to include or exclude the combination.

§System allows to integrate PPR with Marketing Transaction  …….??? This in turn allows user to create Marketing transaction to be created with the pre stated combination.

§CRM 5.0 onwards the combination of partner and material can be maintained in new master data called listing.

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In detail - Structure/Hierarchies and Categories

 

Structure

• Categories are arranged in hierarchies. All lower-level categories inherit the product type and the set types of the higher-level category. Additional set types can be assigned to lower-level categories.
• If a product type is assigned to a category, only products/individual objects of this product type can be assigned to the category. Assigning a product type to a category makes it possible to assign set types to the category. In product or individual object maintenance, these set types appear within the views (that is, on the tab pages) that can be maintained for a product or individual object.
• To prevent a set type from being assigned to a product or individual object more than once (via different categories), the following rules apply when working with categories and hierarchies:
• A set type may be assigned to several categories in a hierarchy. However, a set type may be assigned only in one hierarchy per product type.
  For example, a set type cannot be assigned to two categories in different hierarchies if these categories have the same product type. However, this is possible if the product type is different.
• A product or individual object can be assigned to several product categories, as long as they belong to different hierarchies. A product or individual object can therefore only be assigned to one category per hierarchy.

 

Categories and Hierarchies

Categories and hierarchies are used for structuring purposes, and allow you to group together products according to different criteria. Categories define which set types and relationship types are allowed for a product, thereby enabling you to structure the information you require on your products through the assignment of categories.

It is a Structuring mechanism for modeling purposes within the product master.

Use

• Categories and hierarchies are used to group products and individual objects according to different criteria. The purpose of a hierarchy will depend on the business criteria involved and your company's requirements.
• A hierarchy can be multi-level and be used for control or informative purposes.
• You can assign hierarchies toapplications. For more information, look in the Customizing of Cross-Application Components under SAP Products®Product Category®Assign Category Hierarchies to Applications.
• Within the product master, assigning a hierarchy to the application Product enables it to be used as a base hierarchy within the product master. Each product/individual object created must be assigned to a category from this base hierarchy