In SAS^® Promotion Optimization and SAS^® Regular Price Optimization, baseline sales units might be different between a promotion, a regular price plan, and a category plan with the same scope. The baseline sales units might not match because of very small shares at the low level (individual product-locations). This issue occurs when the following are true:

• Some of the product-locations in the promotion, regular price plan, and category plan have a very small share of demand of the share group's demand.
• The products that have a very small share of demand are the only products in the share group at these locations.

The differences in baseline sales units are due to different thresholds for detecting the small shares in optimization and aggregation.

There is no workaround for this issue.

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	Product Release		SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS Regular Price Optimization	Linux for x64	5.2	5.4	9.3 TS1M1	9.4 TS1M4
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	5.2	5.4	9.3 TS1M1	9.4 TS1M4
SAS System	SAS Promotion Optimization	Linux for x64	5.2	5.4	9.3 TS1M1	9.4 TS1M4
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	5.2	5.4	9.3 TS1M1	9.4 TS1M4

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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A fix for this issue for SAS Revenue Optimization 5.2_M4 is available at:

https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/P20.html#54303

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Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	high

Date Modified:	2016-11-01 10:57:15
Date Created:	2014-10-08 10:21:28