Release and Approval of Price Plans

Use

You use this function to release price plans for subsequent processing.

If you want to use the approval procedure and the price planning for a price plan leads to budget overruns or causes other release rules to be broken, only the approvers specified in authorization administration can release the price plan using the approval workbench or the approval workflow.

Prerequisites

The price plan has the status New Entry or In Process .

Activities

Releasing a Price Plan in the PPW

At the end of the price planning phase, you release price plans in the Price Planning Workbench (PPW).

If you use the approval procedure and a budget overrun occurs or other release rules are broken as a result of the price plan, the price plan is given the status For Release rather than Released .

Note Note

You can use a Business Add-In to define when the release of a price plan needs to be approved. In the default implementation, price plans have to be approved for release if budgets are overrun.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Logistics - General under Start of the navigation path Price Planning Next navigation step Enhancements Using Business Add-Ins Next navigation step Define Rules for Price Plan Status when Releasing in the PPW. End of the navigation path

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Releasing a Price Plan Using the Approval Workbench

On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Retailing Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Price Planning Next navigation step Price Plans Next navigation step Approve End of the navigation path .

  1. Enter the relevant price plan and run the report.

    The system displays the price planning data for the price plan in the PPW adapted for the release function.

    Note Note

    You can also perform the report without entering a price plan. You can then select a price plan in the worklist for the PPW.

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  2. Check the settings for the price plan.

  3. Release the price plan.

    You can also reject the release of a price plan. The price plan is given the status For Resubmission and the relevant processor can then make the changes.

  4. If you want to release other price plans, select these for the worklist and transfer them to the work area.

    For more information, see Worklist under the section Selecting Price Plans for the Worklist .

    You can also approve or reject several price plans in the work area directly. For more information, see Worklist under Selecting Price Plans for the Worklist .

Releasing a Price Plan Using the Approval Workflow

You can link the approval with a workflow. This ensures that approvers are informed if there are price plans to be approved.

The configuration of the workflow for the approval of price plans is based on the business object BUS1237 for price plans. Within the preconfiguration carried out by SAP, you can choose between two different procedures:

  • In the simple procedure, the approvers are informed about the price plans to be approved. When processing workitems, the approver can grant or reject approval.

  • In the extended procedure, the approvers are also informed of any price plans requiring approval. In this case, however, if the approver rejects the approval, the person responsible for the price plan is informed of the rejection. This person can then trigger postprocessing with the relevant workitem. If an approval workitem is not processed, it is approved automatically on the basis of a setting for the end of the workitem.

For more information, see the Configuration Guide for the Retail Price & Revenue Management business scenario.

See also:

Authorization Administration