Material and Service Type Differences

You can define price difference groups for materials and service types, and assign one material difference group and one service type difference group to every business type defined for each location. During price maintenance, the system can apply the differences at the material and material/ service type levels for each location when calculating price proposals.

In each price difference group, you define differences in relation to reference materials and service type respectively.

Competitor Differences

You can assign competitor locations to your locations and define price differences between those locations and your location at the location and the material levels. During price maintenance, the system can apply the differences when copying competitor price changes to calculate new price proposals for your location.

Location Cluster

You can assign a location to a cluster. Within each cluster you can define differences at the location or the location and material level. During price maintenance, the system can calculate new price proposals by copying a change to prices at one location to the other locations within the cluster. Any defined differences are included in the calculation of the new price.

In the example below, a price of 0.98 at location 1 is copied to the locations 2 and 3. The new price at location 3 is then copied to locations 4 and 5, producing the proposals shown. The new price proposals could also be generated by changing the price at location 1 and then doing a cluster update.

If you changed the price at location 4 to 0,98 and copied the change to other locations, the system would:

Add 0,03 to generate a price proposal for locations without a defined difference, so that the price for locations 1, 2and 5 would be 1.01

Apply differences to this price, so that the price proposed for location 3 would be 1,03