Two-Dimensional Price Maintenance Tool (SAP Library - SSR

Two-Dimensional Price Maintenance Tool

Use

You use the two-dimensional price maintenance tool to:

Store current competitor prices
Generate price proposals for your own locations
Change target prices for your own locations

Prerequisites

You must have created Pricing Master Data.

You must have defined price maintenance screens in Customizing for the Industry Solution Oil & Gas (Downstream) by choosing SSR ® Fuels Processing ® Pricing ® Define screen layout for pricing maintenance.

For more information on prerequisites for SSR price control functionality, see Price Control.

Features

Price Difference Groups

You can define price groups on the basis of service type, material, competitor locations and location clusters. Within these groups you can define fixed differences. A change to a price can be copied to other prices within the group to generate new price proposals. These price proposals reflect any differences that have been defined. You can change price proposals manually.

If the price of a reference material defined for a material difference group is modified, any dependent material prices will be re-calculated using the material differences rates. If a dependent material price is modified and the difference does not match the difference rate, a message appears, asking the user to confirm the change.

For more information about price difference groups, see Pricing Master Data.

Margin Procedures

The system uses the business type and margin procedure assignment in the business location master record to determine margin procedures for each business location and business type combination.

Screen Layout

The two-dimensional price maintenance screen has a flexible matrix layout. For example, by assigning the appropriate condition type to a list variant, you can define screen with materials as the columns and business locations as the rows.

SAP delivers screens for maintaining the prices of materials and service type/ material combinations for:

Your own locations and the competitor locations assigned to them. For more information, see Defining Competitor Differences.

Location clusters. For more information, see Defining Cluster Differences.

You can define your own screens in Customizing for the Industry Solution Oil & Gas (Downstream) by choosing SSR ® Fuels Processing ® Pricing ® Define screen layout for pricing maintenance. For each list variant/ condition type you can specify business add-ins that control the layouts.

You define business add-ins for two-dimensional price maintenance in Customizing for the Industry Solution Oil & Gas (Downstream) by choosing SSR ® Fuels Processing ® Pricing ® Maintain Business Add-Ins for Two-Dimensional Pricing and then the appropriate activity.

A function is provided that allows you to change the content of columns in price maintenance screens. For more information, see Maintaining Column Values.

Functions Available within Price Maintenance

Several pushbuttons and their corresponding functions can be included on the price maintenance screen. The exact composition of the screen can be controlled through Customizing and Business Add-Ins. For more information, refer to the IMG for the Industry Solution Oil & Gas (Downstream) ® SSR ® Fuels processing ® Pricing ® Define screen layout for pricing maintenance.

The following pushbuttons and functions are available within the delivered price maintenance screens:

Save. This changes location target prices and transmits them to the local service station systems. Competitors prices can also be updated.

MP. This displays the margin calculation detail screen. Updates are not allowed in this screen. You can use this function to simulate margins for new prices.

Reset CV. This resets the changes of the selected cell to the initial values.

Reset Row. This resets the changes of the selected row to the initial values.

C/P. This copies prices for the selected row and pastes them to the target line.

Copy. This stores prices for the selected row

Paste. This copies the prices stored last to the selected line. During the copy, the system applies any defined differences.

Cluster update. This copies prices for the selected location and pastes them to the other locations within the cluster.

Network and Group Update. This copies target price proposals to the selected locations in a Network Price Update.

Competitors. If you define the competitor price change as a Change reason code, this fills the Responsible Competitor fields with the IDs of the competitor locations for which you have changed prices.

Activities

To use the two-dimensional price maintenance tool, you choose Logistics ® Sales and Distribution ® Service Station Retailing ® Pricing ® Pricing. For more information, see Using Competitor Price Update to Maintain Prices.