Price Planning 

Purpose

You use this component to plan changes to sales prices in the following processes:

·        Rule-based markdown controlling

·        Promotion

·        Manual price change

The Price Planning Workbench (PPW) provides you with a uniform working environment for price planning. In rule-based markdown controlling, you process markdown proposals that SAP Business Intelligence (SAP BI) has created in slow seller management and transferred to SAP ECC in a special worklist. If you create promotions and manual price changes, select the articles and organizational levels that you want. Functional integration of the sales price calculation allows you to use the information from the price calculation.

A connected budget function enables you to monitor sales deductions in the PPW that result from planned price changes. To calculate the sales deduction, the system takes into account both the price differences and the current stock and planning quantities. The system displays the effects of the price changes on different budgets in the Budget Monitor.

You save the relevant price planning data in a price plan. When planning is complete, you release the price plan for subsequent processing. You can use an approval procedure to prevent unwanted price changes if a budget overruns. Only specified approvers can then release the price plan. In subsequent processing, the system creates the sales conditions created in the price plan and updates the budgets.

Integration

You need the following components for price planning and the associated budget function:

Component	Function
Retail Pricing	Calculating and posting sales conditions
Season	Master data from the season
Retail Promotion	Integrating promotion processing
Open-to-Buy	Generating budget tables for price planning processes and transferring budget plan data from SAP BI or SAP SEM to SAP ECC.
SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP SEM) and SAP BI	Copying markdown proposals to SAP ECC.

 

Features

The following functions are contained in price planning:

·        Authorization management: Defining processing options for budgets for each user and defining the approval procedure

For more information, see Authorization Administration.

·        Price Planning Workbench: Uniform working environment for planning price changes for rule-based markdown controlling, promotions, and manual price changes, and for saving planning data in a price plan

For more information, see Price Planning Workbench.

·        Subsequent processing of price plans: Creating sales conditions and updating budgets

For more information, see Subsequent Processing of Price Plans.

·        Reorganizing price plans

For more information, see Reorganization of Price Plans.

·        Reorganizing markdown proposals from the worklist

For more information, see Reorganization of Markdown Proposals.

·        Deleting budgets

For more information, see Deletion of Budgets.