Promotion planning and lowest level KF

Hai,
The promotion key figure has to be the lowest level of detail, which means the KF has to be the lowest in the hierarchy. This means, I can only assign promotions at the lowest level?
For example, a product called DOW white color soaps and a group level called DOW soaps. So as per the promotion planning, I can only set promotions at the DOW white color soaps and not at the group level of DOW soaps? is that true? What if I have a case that I have to specify a promotion at group.
Thank you.

Hi Vishu ,
Firstly let me clear you that Promotion Key figure is the key figure in which the data for the promotion is to be stored and the Promotion level is the characteristic at which level the promotion is maintained ,this may be the Locaion or the Product .Yes you need to assign promotion to the lowest level but this does not mean that you can not add promotions at higher level like product grp or Brand .
In promotion base you can define Characteristics (Grp/Brand etc) on which you want to plan promotion.
For more clarification go thro.
<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm40/helpdata/en/0d/429ba838ee11d3982b0000e8a49608/frameset.htm">Creating a Promotion</a>[url
Regds //Digs...

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