SAP TRADE MANAGEMENT 3.0

Installation

SAP Trade Management 3.0 is an add-on to SAP Customer Relationship Management, SAP NetWeaver, and SAP Business Objects BI Platform.

This solution consists of the following add-ons:

  • TMAC (SAP Trade Management 3.0 CRM): runs on SAP CRM 7.0 EhP3 or EhP4
  • TMAB (SAP Trade Management 3.0 BW): runs on SAP Business Warehouse 7.4, powered by SAP HANA or SAP Business Warehouse 7.5, powered by SAP HANA
  • TMAUI (SAP Trade Management 3.0 Fiori): runs on SAP NetWeaver 7.4 or 7.5
  • TMABI (SAP Trade Management 3.0 BI reporting): runs on SAP Business Objects BI Platform 4.1 or 4.2

For detailed installation information, see SAP Note 2324428(opens in new tab) Release strategy for SAP Trade Management.

This solution consists of three functional areas:

  • SAP Trade Promotion Planning and Management

This application helps you plan and manage your trade promotions using either BPS or the planning applications kit.

  • SAP Customer Business Planning

This application enables key account managers (KAMs) to plan and discuss sales planning in the same language as their retailers' buyers. It helps KAMs to understand the KPIs of their retailers and to identify a mutually beneficial account plan including the best promotions.

  • SAP Advanced Trade Management Analytics

This application helps Sales Management to know the impact of trade promotions; Trade Marketing to know the total demand, forecast the sales volume, and guide sales management to schedule trade promotions; and Account Executives to decide promotional activities and optimize results.

Additional Preconditions

For details, please check the Administrator’s Guide.

Documentation

For SAP Trade Management, the following documentation has been provided:

• For basic installation, operations, and security information, start with the Administrator’s Guide here -> Focused Business Solutions -> SAP Trade Management.

• For Customizing, refer to the structure in the SAP Implementation Guide (IMG) of your SAP system.

• For end user guidance, see the documentation on the SAP Help Portal here -> Customer Relationship Mgmt -> SAP Trade Management.

Customer Messages

If you experience problems with the installation, create a case on the SAP Support Portal using the following components:

• CRM-MKT-MPL-TPM for SAP Trade Promotion Planning and Management

• CRM-MKT-MPL-CBP for Customer Business Planning

• CRM-ANA-TMA for Advanced Trade Management Analytics

Product Availability and Maintenance

The availability and maintenance timeframe of the product is listed in the Product Availability Matrix on the service marketplace

You can download Support Packages from the SAP Support Portal  

Additional Information

This solution is a Standard Product with the Product Type ‘Focused Business Solution’. A short explanation of Focused Business Solution can be found here.