Prices
Prices are used for pricing purposes in business transactions (quotations, sales orders, contracts). They are based on the condition technique and enable pricing information to be determined from the pricing condition records you create for the product concerned. Prices are calculated using the pricing engine.
Integration
The following table explains how terminology differs between the WebClient UI and Customizing.
WebClient UI |
Customizing |
Customizing Activity |
|---|---|---|
Price Maintenance Group |
Condition Maintenance Group |
|
Price Type |
Condition Maintenance Group Entry (combination of condition type and condition table) |
|
Price Element |
Condition Type |
|
Prerequisites
To use the pricing functionality in the product master, you need to have done the following:
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Assigned the product-specific condition tables and types to the appropriate condition group in Customizing for
Customer Relationship Management
, by choosing
Master Data
Conditions and Condition Technique
Condition Technique: Basics
Create Maintenance Group
. -
Assigned the condition group to the application SAP CRM in Customizing for
Customer Relationship Management
, by choosing Master Data
Products
Special Settings for Sales Operations
Assign Condition Group to Application CRM
.
Features
Pricing Procedure
The mechanism by which prices are calculated is extremely complex. It enables a number of prices to be calculated, such as gross price, discount, and surcharge, which might be relevant for a certain customer or on a certain date.
The data required for calculating the price can be derived from the pricing information specified for the following:
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Sales order, service order, quotation, or contract
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Product
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Business partner
This information is accessed and evaluated in a pricing procedure, which defines how the price is calculated, that is which condition types apply and the sequence in which they are calculated.
For more information about pricing, see The Pricing Process.
Price Type
The price type determines the type of price involved. This can be simply the price the product actually costs, or dependent on other factors such as distribution chain or customer.
Technically the price type is an entry in the condition maintenance group. Each assigned combination of condition type and condition table constitutes a price type. It determines which fields are available for specifying price information on the Product
page and
what type of scale can be created for the specific price.
Normally you create a standard price for a product. This is currently defined as specific to a sales organization and distribution channel:
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Product Price: Condition type 0PR0, condition table SAP004
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Customer-Specific Product Price: Condition type 0PR0, condition table SAP005
You might also want to create discounts or surcharges. Although you can create these directly for the product concerned, you are more likely to want to create them for the following or a combination of the following:
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Customer
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Customer group
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Category of products (for more information, see Prices at Category Level)
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Product group
These are generally defined directly on the Price
page.