Activating Promotion Prices

Use

Price Activation Types

You can control how price activation is carried out by entering a price activation type in promotion header data. The following values are valid:

  • Site

In this case, you must assign at least one site group to the promotion in order to carry out pricing.

  • Site group

In this case, you must assign at least one site group to the promotion in order to carry out pricing.

  • Price list

In this case, you must enter a price list and a distribution channel in the promotion header data. Pricing can be carried out even if no site groups are assigned to the promotion.

The system can check this price list against the site price lists for the sites in the site groups which are assigned to the promotion.

  • Distribution channel

In this case, you must enter a distribution channel in the promotion header data. Pricing can be carried out even if no site groups are assigned to the promotion.

The system will propose a price activation type based on Customizing for promotion types.

Pricing Conditions

The system activates promotion-specific pricing conditions based on the planned prices.

The following pricing conditions can be created:

  • Sales conditions for sales prices in the stores

  • Purchasing conditions for purchase prices from vendors

  • Distribution center conditions for distribution center prices used in two-step pricing calculations (that is, the price the distribution center charges the stores for merchandise)

For each article whose price you want to activate, you can specify which of these conditions are to be generated. Optionally, in Customizing you can enter a default value that specifies which conditions are to be generated.

Prices, which are already activated, can be changed by activating a different price for the article. This overwrites the previous promotion conditions. You can change prices even while a promotion is underway.

Normally when you activate a promotion price, the system calculates and stores information about the markup, margin, purchase price, and so on. To improve performance, however, you can choose to generate sales price conditions without having the system calculate them. In Customizing for promotion types, specify "without calculation." With the "no calculation" setting, you simply enter the sales price and activate it. When you save the promotion, the system generates the sales price conditions.

Note Note

The system automatically proposes "without calculation" in the header data. You can accept or reject this proposal for a given promotion. Regardless of the header data, you can still choose whether or not perform calculations for selected articles within the promotion.

End of the note.

Purchase Price Determination Sequence

You can assign a purchase price determination sequence for each item in the promotion. The system will propose a sequence based on settings in Customizing for promotion types.

If a sequence is entered for an item, then the system will not carry out source determination and will ignore any sources already assigned to the promotion. It uses the purchase price determination sequence instead.

Validity Period

When you are activating prices for articles, you can also set the validity period for the conditions. You can set different validity periods for different site groups.

You can adjust the length of the validity period even after a promotion is already underway:

  • If sales are brisk and you are able to procure more stock of an article for the same price, you can lengthen the sales validity period for that article. In this case, the sales prices will remain active until the end of this newly revised validity period.

  • If you have already sold the entire stock of a promotion article and cannot procure more, you can deactivate the sales price for that article; that is, you can enter a different end date for the pricing conditions (either the current or a later date). This in essence shortens the validity period for that article.

Prices will automatically revert to normal on the new promotion end date you specify.

Background Processing

You can use report RWAKT200 to activate promotion prices in the background.

For more information, see Background Processing: Subsequent Processing for Promotions .

Integration

The actual pricing calculations are done by the Pricing component, then transferred back to the Promotion component.