Function documentationPricing for the SRM Central Contract

 

To determine pricing information, the system uses the condition technique to determine the relevant pricing information for a business transaction from condition records. If you have assigned an SRM central contract from a connected SRM system to a purchase order as a source of supply, the ERP system calls the latest pricing information for this source of supply from the SRM system.

For more information about pricing in the SRM system, see the SAP Help Portal under Start of the navigation path SAP Supplier Relationship Management Next navigation step Functions Next navigation step Global Functions Next navigation step Pricing End of the navigation path.

The system runs pricing at item level, so that a purchase order can have items with assigned sources of supply from both the ERP system and the SRM system.

Note Note

Since pricing is based on the conditions stored in the SRM system, with the standard condition types you cannot make changes in the ERP system. To make changes, you must create customer-specific condition types in Customizing. Automatic pricing does not then overwrite these manual changes.

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Prerequisites

For dynamic pricing, you must define condition types in Customizing of the ERP system that match the condition types for pricing in the SRM system.

Features

In Customizing in the ERP system, you can specify the points in time when the system runs pricing. The following times are possible:

  • SRM pricing immediately: On processing the purchase order item

  • SRM pricing immediately (only for hierarchy contracts): On processing the purchase order item for items with reference to a central contract that is part of a contract hierarchy.

  • SRM pricing on saving (of purchase order items): On saving the purchase order item

For more information, see the Customizing in the ERP system, under Start of the navigation path Integration with Other SAP Components Next navigation step Supplier Relationship Management Next navigation step Central Contract Next navigation step Price Calculation End of the navigation path.

Pricing for all items runs at the latest when you save the purchase order. During pricing, the SRM system runs consistency checks for a purchase order. If errors occur, the system issues an appropriate message.