Enhanced Price Catalog Processing

You can use this function to process incoming GDSN messages or EANCOM PRICAT messages, change or add data, post it in the system, and initiate the correction of transfer errors.

You can use XI GDSN messages; the IDoc PRICECATALOGUE02; or the BAPI PRICECATALOGUE, method SAVEREPLICA to import master data into the catalog tables. The system enriches the data to make it possible to post articles later on, by determining a template article for new entries, for example.

When the data is imported or opened, the following happens:

The system determines a characteristics profile for characteristics.
The system determines the related article number for a previously issued GTIN.
The system determines the related generic article number for a follow-on variant. The system uses VENDOR_SATNR in the structure WRF_PRICAT_K003_EXT_STY in segment E1BPPAREX to recognize relations to a generic article.

You can compare the data contained in the catalog tables with the template article, a constant, or the previously saved article. For each field, you can decide whether the field value is a constant, or whether it is transferred from the catalog data, a template article, or a regular article.

Catalog data and its related master data can be displayed together. When saving, the system either creates or modifies the related master data (for example, single article and generic article).

The system displays the related GTINs of a generic article together.

Prerequisites

You have decided to use transaction W_PRICAT_MAINTAIN, instead of transaction PRICAT. For information, see Price Catalog Inbound Processing.

The following settings are optional:

In Customizing for Logistics:

First choose Start of the navigation path Logistics - General Next navigation step Material Master Global Data Synchronization -> Inbound -> Data Transfer End of the navigation path , and then each of the Customizing activities specified in the table below.

Activity	Function
Define Additional Processing Statuses	Define additional processing statuses (also see section Processing statuses).
Configure Online Processing	Define how the catalog items are displayed (also see section Displaying catalog items).
Define Purchase Price and Sales Price	Define whether a price arriving at price catalog inbound should be further processed as a purchase price or a sales price.
Control Purchase Price Updating	Define the combinations of vendor and purchasing organization for which you want to create purchase prices. You also specify which condition table is used to store this information.
Control Sales Price Updating	Define for which distribution chains you want to create sales prices. You also specify which condition table is used to store this information.
Control Reading of Prices	Define - for each condition key and condition type - from which distribution chain or purchasing organization you want to read the prices. You also specify the condition table to be used for reading the condition records.

In Customizing for Sales and Distribution:

First choose Start of the navigation path Sales and Distribution Next navigation step Electronic Data Interchange PRICAT Inbound End of the navigation path , and then the Customizing activities specified in the table below.

Navigation	Function
Configure Adoption of Tax Classification	Define how the system transfers the external tax percentages to the internal displays (tax classification control indicator).

For more information about the settings, see Selecting Price Catalogs for Editing.

Features

Functions on the interface:

Pushbutton	Function
with tooltip Activate/Deactivate Submenu	Show/hide the toolbar.
with tooltip Select Further PRICAT Items	Return to selection.
Create/Change	Save data and transfer (see above).
with tooltip Selects All Work Items	Select all work items.
Generic Article	Select all GTINs that belong to an article.
Mass Maintenance	Change all selected rows and columns at once.
Assign Sales Organization	Assign selected items to specific sales organizations.
Assign Purchasing Organization	Assign selected items to specific purchase organizations.
with tooltip Delete from Catalog	Mark an item for deletion (final deletion occurs after save).
with tooltip Item Differences	Compare data for the different categories of an item. The system displays the differences.
with tooltip Record Item Error with tooltip Show/Hide Error Overview	Call up error recording.
with tooltip Send Error and Status	Jump to sending of error correction proposals. For more information, see Confirmation Using Message Manager (with Error Recording).
with tooltip Change Article	Jump to processing of article master data.
with tooltip Variants -> Single Articles	The system converts selected generic articles with variants to single articles.
with tooltip Change the Merchandise Category	Assign the selected items to another SAP merchandise category.
with tooltip Assign GTIN to an Article	You can assign the GTIN of a new catalog item to an existing article. To do so, select the catalog item and select this pushbutton. In the input window Assign Articles, the GTIN and base unit of the item are grayed out. In the line Article, you can select an existing article. Then select Copy. When copying, the system checks whether the merchandise category, article category, and article type of the article and catalog item match. With generic articles, it also checks the model number. If they do not match, the system proposes changes.

Displaying catalog items

Row/Column	Function
Rows	In Customizing, you decide how the catalog items are displayed: Only the work item Work item and article master record Work item and original data record of vendor or data pool Work item, article master record, and original data record of vendor or data pool In Customizing (IMG), choose Sales and Distribution -> Electronic Data Interchange -> PRICAT Inbound.
Columns
Messages	In this column, you see the various message statuses. If you click a symbol, a message long text appears in the lower area of the screen. - No messages exist - Error - Warning - Transfer was successful
Hotspot GTIN ()	You can use the hotspots displayed in the table to go to lower hierarchy levels, or jump to other transactions (for example, master data maintenance). You can also assign multiple GTINs to an article per unit of measure. In this case, you must mark one of the GTINs as the higher-level GTIN. You do this by clicking the GTIN. The ALV Units of Measure then opens in the lower area of the screen. In the column Higher-Level GTIN, you can set the indicator. Then save your entries.
PGr	Purchasing group
Status of Recorded Errors	Displays the status of a trade item, with regard to the errors recorded for it. For more information, see Error Recording.
Status	Displays the processing status. For more information, see the section Processing statuses.
Proposal for Generic Article	Indicator to show whether a variant is defined as a master variant.
Lock	Lock status: You can use this indicator to lock a catalog entry from transfer to systems/applications other than SAP master data. If a catalog entry is locked, it also cannot be further processed or transferred. If a GTIN has multiple entries in the catalog, the system always locks all entries. When importing a catalog entry, the system reads the status of the previous catalog entry. If it is locked, the system also locks the new catalog entry.
with tooltip Attributes	Attributes of the catalog item: - Copy of a catalog item (cannot be changed) - Catalog item currently locked - Generic article header at the level of the SAP master data - Data of the master variant
with tooltip Change Status	If you see the symbol, the item has not yet been saved.
with tooltip Item Category	Type of data displayed (for preconfiguration, see the Rows entry, above). - Original line from vendor catalog or data pool - SAP master data - Working line
Article Category	Article category (for example, single article, generic article, display)
Article	Article: If you click the hotspot, you go to article processing.

Processing statuses

Each catalog entry in the PRICAT data pool receives a status for the state of processing. SAP delivers the following statuses:

Status	Meaning
01 Open	All catalog entries that the user has not yet processed are Open. Exception: When importing a catalog entry, the system reads the status of the previous (with regard to the date) catalog entry. If the status is Excluded, the system also excludes the new catalog entry. If a catalog entry for a GTIN is given the status Excluded, any other catalog entries that exist for this GTIN are also excluded. Manual conversions relate to individual catalog entries (that is, one GTIN/date).
02 In Processing	If a user has changed the catalog entry, the system automatically sets the status to In Processing.
03 Checked	If the data record can be forwarded to the SAP master data, the user sets this status.
04 Forwarded	The data record was forwarded to the SAP master data - you can no longer process the item. The status itself is an exception to this. You can set the status back to Open, to make further changes.
05 Error	An error occurred when the data record was forwarded to the SAP master data.
06 Excluded	The user can exclude catalog entries from the transfer. Since the selection criteria of the pool are relatively broad, articles are often transferred that the recipient does not want to process. These articles can be excluded from processing by using this status.
07 Check	You set this status manually. It triggers the sending of a confirmation message (see matrix).

The statuses described above are delivered by SAP - you cannot change them. You can define additional statuses in Customizing. To do so, choose Sales and Distribution -> Electronic Data Interchange -> PRICAT Inbound -> Define Additional Processing Statuses.

You manually set the statuses Checked, Excluded, and Check; the status Forwarded is set after the corresponding item in the product catalog has been forwarded to the master data.

Certain status changes (see below) update the confirmation status of an item, so that you can send a confirmation message for the affected items to the data pool. For more information, see Optimized Master Data Exchange Using SAP Enterprise Services, section Sending the GDSN Confirmation Message, and

Editing Confirmations.

Status changes

X = status change from ... to ... is possible

From ... To	Checked	Forwarded	Error	Excluded	Check
Open	X			X	X
In Processing	X			X	X
Checked		X		X	X
Forwarded	X		X	X	X
Error	X			X	X
Excluded	X				X
Check	X				X