Price Catalog
Data Transfer via ALE (PRICAT EDIF Message Type) 
Scope of Functions
- Ability to generate catalogs
- Ability to change data prior to export
- Program that periodically checks to see if price catalog contents have changed
- Data exchange via the internet
Ability to generate price catalogs
You can generate a price catalog for an assortment or customer and subsequently modify it, then send it as a PRICAT message.
The price catalog also supports EANCOM fields that are not in the SAP system. You can maintain these fields by means of a template created at merchandise category level.
Ability to change data prior to export
After you generate a price catalog, you can do further manual processing before exporting PRICAT messages. This new transaction allows you to:
- Manually maintain catalog data which is not supported by the SAP system
- Regenerate either individual items or entire price catalogs after you fix errors in the master data
- Omit materials for certain customers
Program that periodically checks to see if price catalog contents have changed
You can set up a program to run in the background on a regular basis. If there are changes to the data in the price catalog, then you can have the system:
- Automatically send the updated price catalog information to customers (assuming the system detected no errors).
- Send a workflow message to the person responsible for checking/processing the price catalog data, indicating that new PRICAT messages need to be created and, if necessary, errors need to be fixed.
Data exchange via the internet
You can specify which customers are authorized to view a price catalog in an internet browser.
In addition, if you have an SBC (SAP Business Connection), then:
- Your price catalog recipients that also have an SBC can either download and process the data as an XML file or post the price catalog data directly to their own SAP system.
- Your price catalog recipients that do not have an SBC can only download the data as an XML file.
Software/Hardware Requirements
Optional:
In order to make price catalogs available on the internet for download or posting as XML files, you must install an SBC (SAP Business Connection).
If your customers want to be able to post your price catalog data to their own SAP systems (or to other external systems), then they must install an SBC.