Pricing conditions are used to calculate prices in business transactions, such as sales orders and purchase contracts.
Pricing conditions can be specified for individual products on
the Product
page and for an entire category
of products at category level in the Assigned Prices
assignment
block on the Product Hierarchy
page. This is
particularly advantageous when working with a large number of products, as
pricing conditions, such as prices, discounts, and surcharges, can be defined
at the category level for an entire category of products, instead of at the
product level solely for individual products.
Pricing conditions replicated from SAP ECC that are specific to a category with the sales hierarchy (generally R3PRODHIER) can be displayed at category level in a product hierarchy.
Pricing is based on the condition technique. For more information, see Pricing and The Pricing Process.
You have made the following Customizing settings:
Two pricing-relevant hierarchies, PRCATHIER1 and PRCATHIER2, are supported and delivered in the standard system. The pricing-relevant hierarchy R3PRODHIER is used to display pricing conditions replicated from SAP ECC.
Assign your product hierarchy to the
pricing-relevant hierarchy. The Assigned Prices
assignment
block is not available on the Product Hierarchy
page
if the product hierarchy is not relevant for pricing.
If you have downloaded pricing conditions from SAP ECC, assign the sales hierarchy downloaded from SAP ECC to R3PRODHIER.
If further hierarchies are required in addition to the standard two delivered, you also need to make the following Customizing settings:
If you want to display pricing conditions replicated from SAP
ECC at category level in a product hierarchy, check the Customizing
for the pricing-relevant hierarchy R3PRODHIER in the Customizing activity Assign
Field Catalog Fields to Pricing-Relevant Hierarchy
, by choosing
.
Pricing is based on the condition technique. Prices can be specified
on the Product Hierarchy
page for an entire
category of products:
You specify prices for the relevant category in the Assigned
Prices
assignment block on the Product Hierarchy
page.
You can create, change, and delete prices with the price types defined in
the standard version. You can check which condition types apply in Customizing
by choosing .
The relevant maintenance group delivered in the standard version is PRCAT_CRM.
As with other conditions, you specify validity periods for the price records
you create.
The condition types supported include, for example, price, surcharge, and discount. The access sequence maintained at the condition type level defines the access steps required for condition determination.
Prices at category level are not inherited within the hierarchy, as the access sequence within the condition technique is used to determine which pricing condition is relevant.
The pricing steps are processed when triggered by SAP CRM order management.
For more information about product prices, see Prices.