Pricing (SAP Library

Pricing

The following sections describe how pricing is controlled. Before you set up new control elements, you should check in how far the control elements defined in the standard version of the SAP R/3 system meet your requirements.

The following aspects are of significance for controlling pricing

Condition type

Using the condition types, you define which types of prices, discounts, and surcharges exist in the SAP system. The condition types which are pre-defined in the standard SAP delivery system include:

customer-specific discount

freight charge

material surcharge

price list price

Condition table

In the condition table, you specify the combination of fields for which you want to create a condition record.

For example, you can create a condition record for a price which is dependent on:

sales organization

distribution channel

division

customer

Access sequence

The access sequence is a search strategy with which the SAP system searches for valid condition records for each condition type during pricing. The access sequence refers to the fields which are relevant for pricing using the condition tables contained in the access sequence.

Using the access sequence, you can control that the SAP system first of all searches for a customer-specific price and then for a price list price.

Pricing procedure

In the pricing procedure you specify the condition types which are to be used in pricing. At the same time, you define the sequence in which the condition types are to be brought into play.

Which pricing procedure is valid for a business transaction depends on the following criteria:

customer

sales document type

sales area

You also need to take the following points into account:

Pricing for a document item depends on its category . You must make the appropriate settings for all item categories for which pricing should be carried out. Pricing is not activated, for example, for free of charge items.

Also, check how the copying of pricing data is controlled in the SD documents ( document flow).

For example, you specify in the document flow how prices are copied froma sales order into a billing document.

In addition, you must define master data fields which are relevant for pricing.

For example, you must specify a price group for a customer if you want to use this price group for pricing.

Define the degree of responsibility your employees have for conditions.

If the cost price is to be determined during pricing, you must classify the item categories appropriately.

Note

You define pricing for each sales area. You can use sales area assignment to apply the same pricing rules to more than one sales area. (see Section "Define common master data").

Transport interface

In the transport, all objects which were maintained in Customizing for controlling pricing are transported. In the correction which is created for the transport, check the table entries and delete any entries which are not to be transported.

Additional information

You will find further information on this subject in the SD "Guide to Pricing and Conditions".