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Use

When you create a purchase order or scheduling agreement with time-independent conditions, the system searches for valid conditions and inserts them into the new document (this is the process of price determination).

If no conditions are found, but the last PO is noted in the info record, the system can adopt the conditions from this PO. You can specify how the system treats the conditions from the last PO in Customizing for Purchasing (default values for buyers).
The system can proceed in similar fashion in the event that a scheduling agreement with time-independent conditions is noted in the info record.

Note

Price determination involves the process of determining already existing conditions only. Thus, if the buyer enters further conditions in the purchase order - over and above those inserted by the system - and a new effective price results, the latter is not calculated via the price determination process.

If the conditions were adopted from the last document and the buyer performs the New price determination function, these conditions will not be inserted again.

Date of Price Determination

In the automatic price determination process, the price can be calculated as at the document date of the PO, or as at another date (such as the current day’s date, the delivery date, or the goods receipt date). You can specify the date to which the price that is determined relates at the following points:

Note

The value in the purchasing info record takes precedence over the value in the vendor master record.

Caution

The pricing date category in the PO takes precedence.

Example:

In the info record, you have specified that the price determination process is to be carried out with the conditions that are valid on the delivery date (pricing date category 2). Furthermore, you have created two validity periods (from 04. 01.1997 until 04. 31.1997 and from 05. 01.1997 until 12. 31.1997), each with different conditions.

You create a purchase order with the delivery date 05.05.1997. The pricing date category from the info record is adopted. In the course of the price determination process, the info record conditions from the validity period 05. 01.1997 until 12. 31.1997 are then adopted.

If you wish to adopt the info record conditions from the first validity period in the purchase order, you must change the pricing date category in the PO to blank and carry out a new price determination process.

 

 

 

 

 

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