Partner/Product Range (PPR)
Purpose
With partner/product ranges (PPR), you can offer your customers the exact products and services that are relevant for them. This also enables you to avoid certain products being sold.
Partner/product ranges link business partners and products or services with each other. A customer should only be able to order products belonging to a grouping that he also belongs to. The combination of products and business partners is always restricted to a time period, for example, no unwanted products (for example, Christmas cookies) can be sold in a specific season (summer). Each partner/product range has a specific organizational frame, that is, the sales or purchasing organization in which the combination of products and business partners is valid. The system also specifies a scenario (Internet, Mobile, Telesales) in which a specific combination is valid. Some products can be sold within this scenario, whereas consulting is needed for others, so that, for example, they cannot be offered via the Internet or in a Telesales context.
A consumer goods producer produces 100 different types of ice cream and sells these via his call center. Not all his customers have 100 types of ice cream on offer: Supermarkets sell almost all types to their customers, a kiosk or a cinema perhaps only 10 different types. If a call center agent calls a supermarket, he offers him the entire range of ice cream. During the conversation with the kiosk owner, he only suggests 10 types. This consists of a partner/product range, that is, a quotation that is tailor-made for a specific business partner or business partner group.
An integral part of the partner/product range is the Time factor. The greatest demand for ice cream is in summer. For this reason, the ice cream producer would call his customers less often in winter, and the product range would be considerably smaller at this time.
Partner/product ranges can refer to other partner/product ranges, that is, if specific products are maintained in a partner/product range, they don’t have to be entered again in a partner/product range for new creation. All the changes made to the initial partner/product range have immediate effect in the partner/product ranges that use this as a reference. You can use a complete PPR as a reference, or all business partners, products and/or validity periods contained in a PPR.
The exclusion flag for a partner/product range means that the products contained cannot be sold to the listed business partners during the validity period. Partner/product ranges with exclusion flags have priority: if a partner/product range without an exclusion flag contains a valid combination of products and business partners, but, at the same time, a partner/product range with an exclusion flag is active, the product cannot be sold.
Business partners and products mentioned in this documentation also refer to the following: Business Partner Group Hierarchies, Marketing Segments, Product Hierarchies and Product Catalogs (variants, views).
Integration
In order to be able to create and process a partner/product range, you need to have set the product master data and business partner master data components accordingly.
Features
· Creation of partner/product ranges, that is, combinations of business partners and products and their references
· Defining of validity time for partner/product ranges
· References to other partner/product ranges or business partners, products and/or validity periods for other PPRs
· Exclusion of specific items / references to a partner/product range
· Exclusion of entire partner/product ranges
· Freely definable rules for business partners, products and validity periods
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Partner/product
ranges can be archived. Information on this is available under 
Archiving
Partner/Product Ranges
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