Identifying Further Options for Pricing Control

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to explore further options for pricing control

Counter Field in a Pricing Procedure

Impact of the Counter Field in a Pricing Procedure

If you want to retain the input sequence for manual conditions, these conditions must appear at the same level. You can use the counter sub key to enter conditions at the same level in the pricing procedure.

If you want to retain the input sequence for manual conditions, these conditions must appear at the same level. Use the Counter sub key to enter conditions at the same level in the pricing procedure.

New Fields for Pricing

You can use a release-neutral procedure to add additional document fields to the catalog of allowed fields that are available when defining a condition table.

Customizing for pricing is restricted by the catalog of allowed fields for condition tables. If a particular situation requires an exception to this rule, you can use the release-neutral procedure to add additional fields to the catalog.

The information that you need to add new pricing fields is available in the Customizing documentation. To access the documentation, see Customizing for Sales and Distribution under System ModificationsCreate New Fields Using Condition Technique .

Pricing Strategies

The following pricing elements are recapped: condition tables, access sequences, condition types and a pricing procedure and its determination.

You can characterize the individual elements of pricing concisely as follows:

  • Condition table

    The condition table defines the key fields of the condition records.

  • Access sequence

    The access sequence contains the hierarchy for the condition record access.

  • Condition type

    The condition type represents the properties of the pricing conditions.

  • Pricing procedure

    The pricing procedure defines how the condition types are linked.

  • Procedure determination

    The procedure determination selects the correct pricing procedure.

To solve particular problems, build and link all the pricing components creatively.

Meeting particular pricing requirements may require one or more new pricing components. Understanding the purpose and capabilities of each component and the relationship between pricing components is critical to meeting pricing requirements.

Pricing Elements for Complex Scenarios

A recap of the additional options for pricing elements is presented: using new fields for pricing, defining requirements, and defining formulas.

The following elements may be necessary to implement pricing elements for complex scenarios:

  • New fields for pricing

    Create new fields to meet customer requirements.

  • Requirements

    Define dependencies and improve performance.

  • Formulas

    Expand the limits of standard configuration to meet unique user-specific requirements.

You can add new fields to the pricing field catalog. This allows you to use the new field to define any condition table.

Requirement routines and formulas provide a method for modifying the standard pricing logic to meet unique user requirements.

SAP provides tools to create these pricing elements. You can access these tools in Customizing.

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