Defining Competitor Differences
Use
You define differences between prices at your location and its competitors to enable the Two-Dimensional Price Maintenance Tool to propose prices that include a fixed offset between your prices and those of your competitors.
You can maintain differences at a general location level or for each material sold at your location.
Prerequisites
One or more competitor locations must have been assigned to your business location at the business type level. For more information, see Assigning Competitor Locations to Business Locations .
Procedure
Choose
Logistics
Sales
and
Distribution
Service Station Retailing
Pricing
Master data
Competitor differences.
The
Competitor: Change
screen appears.
Enter or select a business location and business type, and choose
Enter
.
The competitor locations assigned to the cluster are displayed in the
Competitor
table. If any differences have been defined, these are displayed in the
Rate
column.
To define a price difference between your location and a competitor location, enter a positive or negative value in the
Rate
column. The Two-Dimensional Price Maintenance Tool uses this difference when it calculates a new price proposal.
To define price differences between your location and a competitor location for individual materials, select a competitor by marking a row of the table and choose
Material.
The
Competitor differences (material)
screen appears.
To define price differences, enter positive or negative values in the
Rate
column.
Save your entries.
A message confirms that your entries have been saved.
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