Using Competitor Price Changes to Maintain Prices

Use

SSR provides a price maintenance screen that allows you to display and maintain prices at competitor locations and copy these to your locations, applying any differences defined in Pricing Master Data maintenance. For more information on defining differences, see Defining Competitor Differences .

You can define your own price maintenance screens. For more information, see Two-Dimensional Price Maintenance Tool .

Procedure

  1. Choose Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Sales and Distribution Next navigation step Service Station Retailing Next navigation step Pricing Next navigation step Pricing. End of the navigation path

The Fuels Maintain Pricing / Display Report screen appears.

  1. Enter the:

  • Location number

  • Pricing date and time if different from current date and time

  • List variant defined for price maintenance based on competitor prices

  • Default service type for the price maintenance screen

Note Note

You can override the service type that you select here for individual rows of the pricing matrix by assigning an appropriate business add-in (BADI) for row definition during list variant definition.

End of the note.

  1. Choose Execute.

The Create Price Calculation screen appears.

If new competitor prices have been received from your service station, go to step 5.

If you are changing competitor prices manually, go to step 4.

  1. Enter the new competitor price and choose Enter.

The system proposes prices for the other materials in the row.

  1. Position the cursor on any of the pricing cells in the competitor line and choose C/P .

  2. The system proposes prices for your own location.

  3. Double-click a price cell.

The margin procedure defined for the cell is displayed, so that you can check margins.

  1. If you want to accept the price proposal, go back and enter a price change reason code.

  1. Choose Competitors.

  2. The competitor locations for which you changed prices are listed in the Responsible competitors field.

  3. Save your entries.

  1. If the location belongs to a price cluster, a dialog box appears, asking whether you want to go directly to the cluster maintenance screen:

If you choose Yes , the cluster price maintenance screen appears. For more information, see Maintaining Cluster Differences .

If you choose No , the Fuels Pricing Maintain / display Report screen appears. A message confirms that prices have been changed.

See also:

Pricing

Two-Dimensional Price Maintenance Tool

Pricing Master Data