Calculating Prices For Site Groups 

Use

In certain cases, identical sales prices must be calculated for a group of sites that does not correspond to a pricing level (distribution chain, site price list or site). In this case, you can group sites into site groups to simplify sales price calculations.

Features

While distribution chains and sites are hierarchical elements in your organizational structure, site groups are logical groupings that you create in the classification system. As it is also possible to create non-hierarchical site groups (class type 030), site groups cannot be used as data retention levels for sales prices. When you save the results of a sales price calculation for a site group, therefore, "site-specific" sales prices are written to the database for each of the sites in the site group.

Since prices are calculated for sites and articles based on purchase prices, it is a good idea to structure site groups for pricing in such a way that all their sites have the same vendor and the same purchase price (net/net purchase price) for the articles.

Sales prices are calculated for a site group on the basis of reference site master data. When determining default values, the system will take the first site in the site group (sorted alphabetically) as the reference site. Note that changes that involve the reference site can also cause changes to pricing parameters in site groups.

You can also change the reference site of a site group later in the screen containing the pricing table. To do this, select Edit ® Reference site.

If you would like to calculate different prices for one site in the site group, you can create an item specially for this site by choosing Edit ® Additional lines.

Select Edit ® Different Lines to display a list of all the sites in the site group that have different calculation-relevant parameters (conditions, vendor, and so on).

With non-hierarchical site groups, it is possible for a site to belong to more than one site group, resulting in an overlap. If the system detects such overlaps during sales price calculation, a dialog box will appear, prompting you to assign each of the affected sites to one site group for pricing purposes. You can make this assignment individually or using a standard assignment. You can use Individual assignment to assign sites individually or to exclude them from the calculation. If you use Standard assignment, the relevant sites are assigned to the first site group alphabetically. You might make this assignment if you wish to create the same sales prices for overlapping site groups, for example.

Activities

In the initial screen of the sales price calculation function, enter one or more site groups for which you want to calculate prices.

Example

Suppose you have two distribution chains, each containing a mix of both upscale stores and off-price stores. Furthermore, you wish to calculate separate sales prices for your upscale stores and your off-price stores. Sales price calculations are therefore not be performed via the distribution chain. Furthermore, if you have a large number of stores, you don’t want to enter them one by one every time you change prices.

You have the following options:

By defining site groups, you can therefore reduce the number of pricing items from one for every store to just two or four. This is much faster than calculating each store individually.

See also:

Sites: Grouping