Prices at Category Level

Pricing conditions are used to calculate prices in business transactions, such as sales orders and purchase contracts.

Pricing conditions can be specified for individual products on the Product page and for an entire category of products at category level in the Assigned Prices assignment block on the Product Hierarchy page. This is particularly advantageous when working with a large number of products, as pricing conditions, such as prices, discounts, and surcharges, can be defined at the category level for an entire category of products, instead of at the product level solely for individual products.

Pricing conditions replicated from SAP ECC that are specific to a category with the sales hierarchy (generally R3PRODHIER) can be displayed at category level in a product hierarchy.

Pricing is based on the condition technique. For more information, see Pricing and The Pricing Process.

Prerequisites

You have made the following Customizing settings:

Customer Relationship Management Master Data Products Product Category Pricing Define Pricing-Relevant Hierarchies

Two pricing-relevant hierarchies, PRCATHIER1 and PRCATHIER2, are supported and delivered in the standard system. The pricing-relevant hierarchy R3PRODHIER is used to display pricing conditions replicated from SAP ECC.
Customer Relationship Management Master Data Products Product Category Pricing Assign Product Hierarchy to Pricing-Relevant Hierarchy
Assign your product hierarchy to the pricing-relevant hierarchy. The Assigned Prices assignment block is not available on the Product Hierarchy page if the product hierarchy is not relevant for pricing.

If you have downloaded pricing conditions from SAP ECC, assign the sales hierarchy downloaded from SAP ECC to R3PRODHIER.
Customer Relationship Management Basic Functions Pricing Define Settings for Pricing Create Pricing Procedure

If further hierarchies are required in addition to the standard two delivered, you also need to make the following Customizing settings:

Customer Relationship Management Basic Functions Pricing Define Settings for Pricing Maintain Field Catalog
Customer Relationship Management Master Data Products Product Category Pricing Assign Field Catalog Fields to Pricing-Relevant Hierarchy
Customer Relationship Management Basic Functions Pricing Define Settings for Pricing Create Access Sequences
Customer Relationship Management Basic Functions Pricing Define Settings for Pricing Create Condition Types
Customer Relationship Management Master Data Conditions and Condition Technique Condition Technique: Basics Create Maintenance Group
Customer Relationship Management Master Data Products Special Settings for Sales Operations Assign Condition Group to Application CRM

If you want to display pricing conditions replicated from SAP ECC at category level in a product hierarchy, check the Customizing for the pricing-relevant hierarchy R3PRODHIER in the Customizing activity Assign Field Catalog Fields to Pricing-Relevant Hierarchy, by choosing Start of the navigation path Customer Relationship Management Next navigation step Master Data Products Product Category Pricing End of the navigation path .

Features

Pricing is based on the condition technique. Prices can be specified on the Product Hierarchy page for an entire category of products:

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You specify prices for the relevant category in the Assigned Prices assignment block on the Product Hierarchy page. You can create, change, and delete prices with the price types defined in the standard version. You can check which condition types apply in Customizing by choosing Customer Relationship Management Master Data Conditions and Condition Technique Condition Technique: Basics Create Maintenance Group . The relevant maintenance group delivered in the standard version is PRCAT_CRM. As with other conditions, you specify validity periods for the price records you create.
The condition types supported include, for example, price, surcharge, and discount. The access sequence maintained at the condition type level defines the access steps required for condition determination.
Prices at category level are not inherited within the hierarchy, as the access sequence within the condition technique is used to determine which pricing condition is relevant.
The pricing steps are processed when triggered by SAP CRM order management.

For more information about product prices, see Prices.