The Pricing Process 

Purpose

In this process, the system automatically determines prices for a transaction. To do this it uses condition technique. Condition technique processes price queries by searching for valid prices in existing condition records using sales area, partner procedure and document pricing procedure.

Prerequisites

You have to have made the Customizing settings for pricing. You can find these settings in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management under Basic Functions ®Pricing.

Process Flow

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       1.      Pricing makes the input values sales area, partner procedure and document pricing procedure available to condition technique.

       2.      The system determines the pricing procedure dependent on sales area, partner procedure and document pricing procedure.

       3.      The system reads the first condition type of the pricing procedure and determines the assigned access sequence.

This step, together with the following steps, is repeated for each condition type on the pricing procedure.

       4.      The system reads the access sequence with the condition tables. The sequence of the condition tables forms the search strategy for determining the individual condition records. Each condition table contains the field combinations according to which the system should search in the condition records, for example business partner – product - price.

       5.      The system searches for valid condition records for the condition tables. If the system does not find a valid condition record for the first condition table, it carries on and searches for a condition record for the next condition table.

       6.      Once the system has found a valid condition record for a condition table, it makes the result available to pricing in the form of prices and discounts.

       7.      If the search procedure contains more than one condition type, the system repeats the search for condition records for each condition type.

Result

You can log the pricing process flow and analyze the results. You can find more information under Condition Analysis

Example

You offer a customer a special price for a product, and create a special condition record specifically for this customer and this product. In the pricing procedure the first condition type is the ‘Price’. The access sequence for this condition type specifies that the system first search for a customer-specific price (field combination business partner – product – price. In this way, the system can automatically determine the customer-specific price in the business transaction, and calculate the total price using the quantity ordered.