Sales Price Calculations 

Use

The sales price calculation function allows you to maintain retail prices and DC transfer prices (together known as sales prices) efficiently for sites (stores and distribution centers) and other operational units.

Prerequisites

Among other things, you need to take into account the settings described under Using the Condition Technique in Calculations and Price Determination and Sales Price Calculations - Basics.

Features

To be able to sell articles, you must define retail prices for stores and other points of sale. In cases where merchandise is subject to a logistics process with several steps, you also need to define the transfer prices that are charged by certain organizational units (such as distribution centers) to the organizational units receiving the merchandise.

There are therefore different methods of calculating sales prices at different organizational levels, as follows:

You can also calculate prices for distribution center distribution chains or for site groups of distribution centers (see Calculating Prices for Site Groups).

You can also calculate prices for store distribution chains or for site groups of stores (see Calculating Prices for Site Groups).

You can use site price lists to group stores or distribution centers (see Calculating Prices for Site Price Lists).

Here, you can calculate prices for wholesale distribution chains and for price lists (groups of customers).

There are also different methods of calculating sales prices according to the source of supply:

In this case, prices are calculated on the basis of the purchase price from the external supplier.

In this case, prices are calculated on the basis of the transfer price from the organizational unit supplying the merchandise, such as a distribution center (multiple steps are possible) (see Two-Step Calculation for Stores ).

The sales price calculation function contains three subfunctions:

  1. Determining the purchase price (purchase price determination)
  2. Determining the sales price (sales price determination)
  3. Determining the margin, or the actual markup

Purchase and sales prices are determined on the basis of the purchase price/sales price determination types defined by SAP. These methods can be combined to form purchase and sales price determination sequences that specify a precise series of steps to be followed in the sales price calculation function (see Purchase Price Determination and Sales Price Determination).

If you are operating in the wholesale sector, you can use a two-step calculation to calculate your consumer price on the basis of the customer transfer price.

See also:

Sales Price Calculations - Processes

Carrying Out Sales Price Calculations