Pricing Procedures (SAP Library - Pricing and Conditions (SD-BF-PR))

Pricing Procedures

Use

The primary job of a pricing procedure is to define a group of condition types in a particular sequence. The pricing procedure also determines:

Which sub-totals appear during pricing
To what extent pricing can be processed manually
Which method the system uses to calculate percentage discounts and surcharges
Which requirements for a particular condition type must be fulfilled before the system takes the condition into account

Example

Example of a Pricing Procedure

If a sales department processes sales orders for a variety of foreign customers, the department can group the customers by country or region. A pricing procedure can then be defined for each group of customers. Each procedure can include condition types that determine, for example, country-specific taxes. In sales order processing, you can specify pricing procedures for specific customers and for sales document types. The system automatically determines which procedure to use.

Pricing Procedures in the R/3 System

The standard system contains pre-defined pricing procedures, which contain frequently used condition types along with their corresponding access sequences. You can, of course, modify these procedures or create your own from scratch.

Creating and Maintaining Pricing Procedures

You create or maintain pricing procedures in Customizing for Sales. For more information on creating pricing procedures, see the online Implementation Guide for Sales and Distribution.

To reach the pricing procedure screen from SD Customizing:

Choose Basic Functions ® Pricing ® Pricing control ® Define and assign pricing procedures.
Select the transaction that you want to execute.