Define Condition Exclusion for Groups of Conditions

If more than one condition record is valid for a document item, you can define rules that determine which condition records are selected and which are ignored. These rules are called "condition exclusions".

To exclude conditions, you need to define so-called "exclusion groups". An exclusion group is a list of condition types that are compared with one another during pricing. Depending on the results of this comparison, individual condition types or an entire exclusion group can be excluded.

This lets you influence pricing to achieve the value that fits the desired criterion, such as the "best price", by taking into account certain condition types while ignoring others.

Example

You can define a condition exclusion that finds the best transfer price for the profit center and always ignores any less favorable ones. The best price then overrides the priority of condition types specified in the access sequence.

The costing sheet determines how the exclusion groups are selected and processed. The following options are available:

• Select the best condition type in an exclusion group

• Select the best condition record for a condition type if more than one valid condition record exists for that condition type

• Select the best of two exclusion groups (all the condition types in both groups are added together and the totals compared with one another)

• Exclusion method: If any one condition type in the first group exists in the document, all the condition types in the second group are removed from the document.

No condition exclusions are delivered with the standard system. If you want to create condition exclusion, you therefore need to do the following:

• Define exclusion groups

• Assign condition types to the exclusion groups

• Enter the exclusion groups in a costing sheet and specify how the condition types to be excluded are found

Activities

1. Create an exclusion group. Enter a four-character key and a name.

2. Assign condition types to the exclusion group. An exclusion group can contain any number of condition types.

3. Enter the exclusion group in a costing sheet that you use for pricing. Pay special attention to the order in which the exclusion groups are to be processed.

You can use two exclusion groups for condition exclusion. If you do, however, you use choose method "C", which finds the best price between two exclusion groups.