During the dual currency phase of EMU, your company may have to denominate sales prices in both the national currency and in euros (for legal or competitive reasons).

The two prices are not independent of each other, but are linked by a fixed conversion rate. This means that only one of the two prices can be rounded off to the nearest price point (9.99 DEM, for example) at any one time. The sales price which has been rounded off (in the main sales currency) is called the main sales price, while the converted sales price (in the parallel sales currency) is the parallel sales price.

After you perform the conversion, the main sales price and the parallel sales price "exchange" currencies.

• Main sales price: DEM 10.99
• Parallel sales price: EUR 5.96

• Main sales price: EUR 5.95
• Parallel sales price: DEM 10.97

Parallel sales prices are available throughout the system, including in the following applications:

• Labeling
• POS interface - outbound
• Assortment list
• Product catalog
• Sales order
• Delivery

There must be a fixed conversion rate between the old and the new currency. If there was no fixed rate, fluctuations in the exchange rate would be detrimental to the whole conversion process.

SAP Retail provides suitable settings to support parallel prices. These settings comprise the sales and distribution condition types VKPE and VKAE, the calculation formula 043 and the calculation schema VKP001.

When the system carries out price determination (at POS outbound processing, for example), the parallel prices are set for the aforementioned condition types, whereas VKPE is used for the standard sales price in the parallel sales currency and VKAE for the promotion sales price in the parallel sales currency. The currency conversion is carried out by the calculation formula 043 at the fixed conversion rate. Condition types VKPE and VKAE must be entered in the sales price calculation schema directly after the previously-used sales price condition types (these are VKP0 or VKA0 in the standard system). The calculation schema VKP001 contained in the system was created as a model and can be used for changing your own schemas.