APO DP Promotion Planning

I am using APO DP V5.1 promotion planning.
Is it possible to set up 'promotion phasing profiles' so that, if for example I have a promotion qty of n spread over x weeks, I can phase the qty n across the x weeks in a consistent fashion.
So, I would want a promotion profile called for example 'PROM_4WEEKS' which would have values of 15%, 15%, 35%, 35% for a 4 week split, and another called for example 'PROM_8WEEKS' which would have values of 30%, 10%, 10%, 10%, 10%, 10%, 10%, 10% for an 8 week split. I could then use these profiles to apply to a number of relevant promotions.
Thanks,
Bob Austin, Atos Origin

Hi Bob,
We can interpret it in a different manner. Creating 2 promotions, one for 4 weeks and one for 8 weeks. You can assign these promotions to multiple products. in case you want to assign it to different products, you can copy the promotion from one set of SKU to another set of products.
regards,
Kedar

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