This function allows you to create a list of prices valid for a certain date for a certain list of products and group of business partners.
You can use price lists to make your current prices available in list form at any time. You can create price lists individually for customers or customer groups and certain products.
Example
The furniture company Holz & Leim
publishes a color catalog every year without details of prices. It includes a specific price list with the catalog for each customer group: Price list A for major customers contains quantity discounts and no value added tax,
price list B for end customers contains prices with tax.
You can use price lists in the following functions and processes:
Product Proposals
The system simulates price lists so that it can display product proposals with prices in a sales transaction before pricing for the sales transaction takes place. You can find more information under Product Proposals in Sales Transactions.
Trade Promotion Management
In Trade Promotion Management, you use price lists to calculate the prices of a promotion.
You have assigned a pricing procedure to your required price list type in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management
under .
If you want to print or send the price list by e-mail, you must assign an action profile in this activity.
If you want to increase system performance during the creation of price lists and during repricing, you can enable parallel processing in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management
under .
If you want to enhance parallel processing for price lists, you can change the settings in the standard system in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management
under .
The price list has a validity period. The pricing date corresponds to the price list’s valid-from date.
The system can create price lists from the following master data:
Business partners and products
You can also enter the node of a business partner group hierarchy.
Partner/product ranges (PPRs)
Business partners and PPRs
If the PPR also contains partners, the partners of the intersection are chosen.
The system uses the sales unit as the unit of measure. If no sales unit is available, the system takes the base unit of measure from the product master.
The system creates one list per customer. In the list, the products, sorted by product ID, are displayed with their prices.
You can print the list, send it by e-mail, or save it as a file.
You can display price lists for an account in the account overview page in SAP CRM by choosing
. Your sales employees can then search for a price list for an account and find out about the product prices that are valid for this account.If no price list is assigned to an account, this menu option is not displayed.
If multiple price lists are assigned to an account, a dialog box appears on the user interface in which you can choose the required price list.
A PDF document then opens that displays the relevant price list for an account with the products and their prices.
Note
You can adjust the layout of this PDF document to your requirements and, for example, add more information. To do so, you need to edit Smart Form BEA_CNPL_BILLING_SF, using transaction SMARTFORMS.
Prerequisite: You use action profile NETPRICELIST in the default Customizing for actions in the price list. For more information, see Customizing for Customer Relationship Management
under .
Two reports are available that you can schedule as background jobs:
Create price lists (BEAR_CNPL_PDL_PROCESS)
The system generates a document when creating a price list. You can use this document to assess, send, and archive the data afterwards.
Update price lists (recalculate prices) (BEAR_CNPL_PL_PROCESS)
You can change the validity period of existing price lists, and update the prices.
On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose
.