OTB: Average Price Band Prices
Key figures that you plan at sales price can be converted automatically into quantities whenever you execute the predefined macro in the planning type. The average unit prices of different price bands are used for this calculation.
This function is designed for information structures with the key figure "average price band price" and the characteristics "sales organization," "distribution channel," "merchandise category," and "price band category." If any of these characteristics are not contained in your information structure, you represent their values in the Customizing system for Retail (the step "Average prices of price band categories") with blanks.
You set average price band prices in the Customizing system for Retail (the step "Average prices of price band categories"). For every relevant combination of sales organization, distribution channel, merchandise category, season type, and price band category, you specify the average price in that price band and a currency. If you wish to define your price bands even more precisely, you enter two more characteristic values; you maintain the characteristics to which these fields refer separately, in the step "Characteristic fields per info structure for price bands" of the Customizing system for Retail. Lastly, you enter a date to mark the end of the time span for which the average price is valid. This is also the date as of which the average price band price of the next time span comes into effect.
The average prices are read into the correct period and displayed on the line "Average price band price" of the planning table at runtime. Any necessary conversion from local currency to planning currency is performed automatically.