Condition maintenance has a new maintenance screen for Release 4.6A. The new interface enables mass maintenance of conditions relating to specific features, for example, the customer. You can also maintain condition tables by condition type or condition table. You can, for example, maintain all material prices for a customer as well as the corresponding discounts or surcharges in one step.
To enter condition maintenance, you can use the pricing report list function, which previously enabled selection by condition type or condition table but didn't allow mass maintenance.
The structure of area menus and their assignment to employees was used for condition maintenance. An example:
In your company you have employees responsible for maintaining conditions for specific customers.
You take an available or newly created pricing report (in the standard system the pricing report 'Conditions to the customer' uses the customer as selection criteria) and determine the corresponding customer in the selection screen. If you choose Goto -> Save as selection variant, you receive a selection variant for the pricing report.
You can now integrate the pricing report with the required selection variant in the area menu and the processor responsible can assign this maintenance in the area menu. He is then free to assign his area menu.
The processor can maintain all prices, discounts and surcharges for a customer on one screen with this selection.
Selecting condition records with pricing reports is possible for
condition records.
You can gain entry to the new maintenance screen via the navigation menu.
Choose: Sales and distribution -> Master data -> Conditions
There are the following new transactions:
Note: Previous maintenance with entry via the condition type can be reached by: Sales and distribution -> Master data -> Conditions -> Selection by condition type
Now choose one of the transactions, for example, create conditions with reference. You then reach a navigation tree, in which in standard 18 Pricing reports for selection and maintenance of condition records are offered as a selection. The focus point is the first pricing report described below for maintaining conditions.
Condition maintenance uses the following new pricing reports, when no condition type is given:
By clicking on the right mouse key, you can see the structure of the pricing report and the condition tables used.
By clicking the right mouse key or double-clicking, you can select the pricing report to be executed.
The previous condition maintenance options have been integrated into the new maintenance. But here you can also remove the proposed condition type in the selection, to achieve maintenance by condition type or condition table. The following condition tables are available:
Pricing reports for maintaining prices:
Pricing reports for maintaining discounts and surcharges:
Pricing reports for maintaining taxes:
You now reach a selection screen, in which you can enter selection details, for example, the number of customers or materials.
You can execute the selection screen without displaying it, possibly even with a pre-assigned selection variant (See unit customer-specific enhancements).
During maintenance you must differentiate between the overview screen and the fast entry screen. The overview screen described below is the one you reach first. It can be used for maintaining conditions, changing conditions and creating with reference (also for displaying, which is not taken into consideration in the following condition maintenance description). When creating conditions, you must choose one of the condition tables given in the overview screen. Use the icons for creating next to the short description of the condition tables (highlighted). You reach the fast entry screen, which will be dsecribed at the end.
After executing the selections, you reach, for example, during transaction VK32 (Changing conditions) the conditions overview screen. This lists the condition records to be maintained. The list assigns a group of condition records to each condition table. The heading for each group of conditions consists of the field description headings for the condition tables and is highlighted.
All price maintenance options are available. New developments in condition maintenance are:
If you want to estimate the results of a price change, you can use the price simulation. You can select and change several conditions and then, before saving the changes, simulate pricing, to display the effect of the price change. A billing document is simulated for every customer and material. You receive a comparison of the old and new net values. Or you can compare the old profit margin (net price minus cost price) with the new one.
If you want to create conditions, choose the creation icon from the overview screen, relating to a condition table. You now reach the fast entry screen.
The fast entry screen enables initial data creation of conditions. This can only be carried out for one condition table. If there are condition types, which have the same condition table, you can maintain condition records for different condition types.
As a prerequisite for the following area menu enhancement, it may be necessary for you to create new pricing reports and/or new selection variants for pricing reports.
Creating pricing reports is described in the implementation guide under pricing.
You receive a selection variant for a pricing report. If you execute a pricing report (Transaction V/LD), enter the selection details (for example, number of customers) and choose Goto -> Save as variant.
The standard area menu for condition maintenance is COND_AV. You should not change this, but if you wish you can copy and enhance it.
You can use transaction SE43N to create your own area menus. You can create a tree structure in your own area menu. You can add a pricing report for condition maitenance in the tree structre. This can be with or without a variant. You can also determine whether the list should be executed by doubleclicking in the area menu with or without the selection screen. There is a pricing report for selecting condition records for maintenance via the specific area menu.
You want to give an employee a selection for maintaining conditions, containing the customers for which this employee is responsible.
Note: Note that the pricing report name here is not 28, as was entered when you selected the pricing report. The report has an internally specified name, which was entered alongside 28. You can see this name as well when you display the pricing report (transaction V/LC). In our example the name is /1SDBF12L/RV14AK28.
An employee can assign himself the area menus he has set up himself. To do this, choose Environment -> Assign area menu.
There are screen variants available in the standard system. You can use transaction SHD0 to create your own screen variants:
You can now select your screen variants in the conditions overview screen for field selection for representing condition records in tables.