Calculating Prices for Site Price Lists
Use
In organizational pricing, site price lists can be used to group sites of a distribution chain in order to save a standard sales price for this group of sites.
The condition technique enables you to create sales prices for different organizational levels. The distribution chains and sites are organizational levels derived from the organizational structure of a retail company. As a superior organizational level, a distribution chain generally contains a very large number of sites. It is, however, not possible to create groups of sites in a distribution chain within this organizational structure in order to create standardized sales prices for them. Instead, site price lists perform this function. The grouping is created by assigning the required sites to a site price list.
Grouping sites using site price lists is performed in the same way as grouping customers in wholesale by maintaining price lists in the relevant sales area data.
Site groups cannot be used as data retention levels for sales prices. See also:
Prerequisites
You can define the site price lists you want to use in Customizing for Sales and Distribution.
In order for site price lists to be calculated for a distribution chain, the Distribution chain pricing level indicator must be maintained under Distribution chain control in the Retail Basic data view of Customizing for Logistics. This indicator controls which pricing levels are permitted below distribution chain level (sites and/or price lists) for a particular distribution chain.
This indicator has a further important control function in Pricing. If the condition type for the sales price is used for several distribution chains, and site price lists are not defined as a price calculation level for some of these distribution chains, sales prices are not accessed at site price list level for these distribution chains, due to this indicator. Not performing these accesses results in an improvement in performance (particularly where POS outbound functions are concerned) for distribution chains without site price lists.
In the site master, you can assign a site price list to the merchandise categories listed in the Merchandise category view. As a result, sites are grouped according to merchandise categories, which means that a site can be included in different (sales price) groups for different merchandise categories.
In order to maintain the assignment of sites to site price lists, choose Master data ® Site ® Change site ® Extras ® Merchandise category.
The sales prices for articles in sites can also change if the site price list assignment in the master data changes. In the case of large merchandise categories, note that this type of change will lead to a large number of new sales prices having to be downloaded to the POS terminals.
In order to save sales prices at site price list level in the sales price calculation function, the necessary settings have to be made in Customizing for Pricing under Control data for pricing table and data backup.
Features
Sales prices are created in the system as condition records for a defined condition type. The priority for sales prices at the various organizational levels is defined in the access sequence that is used to access these condition records in price determination.
In keeping with the principle that, in price determination, the system searches first for specific condition records and then for general ones if the first search is unsuccessful, sales prices from site price lists come between sales prices at site level and sales prices at distribution chain level in order of priority.
Priority is assigned to site price lists in the same way as priority is assigned to sales prices in the wholesale sector. There, the system searches first for customer-specific sales prices and then for sales prices at price list level and distribution chain level.
In sales price calculation, sales prices for the site price lists are calculated in the same way as the price list prices in wholesale. In price determination, you must use a suitable access sequence (with access to the site price list price) for the sales price condition type. The standard access sequence VKP1 provided by SAP can be used as a template here.
Site price lists are defined under Maintain Price-Relevant Master Data Fields in Customizing for Sales and Distribution in the same way as price lists for customers, because both price lists are used in the same way in the condition technique.
However, because they are defined in the same way, there is no difference made between these two different price lists in sales price calculation. To avoid unwanted calculations for site price lists in wholesale, or for customer price lists in retail, you should differentiate between the types of price lists by assigning them suitable names.
When sales prices are being calculated for price lists, the system must refer to reference site master data in order to perform functions such as source determination, for example, just as it does for calculations for distribution chains.
For distribution chains and price lists, the reference site must be maintained under Assign Pricing Type to Organizational Level in Customizing for Pricing.
If you are calculating prices for distribution chains or price lists, you can change the reference site by choosing Edit
If, when calculating sales prices for site price lists, you would like to calculate different prices for one site, you can create an item specially for this site by choosing Edit
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To calculate sales prices for site price lists, select the relevant site price lists together with the distribution chain in the selection screen for sales price calculations.