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Function documentationPrice Lists

 

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 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.

End of the example.

Integration

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.

Prerequisites

  • You have assigned a pricing procedure to your required price list type in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Price List End of the navigation path.

  • 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 Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Price List Next navigation step Enable Parallel Processing for Price Lists End of the navigation path.

  • 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 Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Price List Next navigation step BAdI: Configure Parallel Processing for Price Lists End of the navigation path.

Features

Selection

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.

Output

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.

Price List Preview

You can display price lists for an account in the account overview page in SAP CRM by choosing Start of the navigation path More Next navigation step Price List Preview End of the navigation path. 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 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 Start of the navigation path Basic Functions Next navigation step Actions Next navigation step Actions in the Price List Next navigation step Change Actions and Conditions Next navigation step Define Action Profiles and Actions End of the navigation path.

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Activities

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 Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Price List End of the navigation path.