Additionals: Analysis of Sales Price Changes 

Use

You have created purchase orders for articles to which additionals are assigned. The system generates purchase orders and IDocs for additionals that are to be procured from external vendors.

This analysis allows you to determine whether any changes have been made to conditions to affect the sales price since additionals IDocs were last created. You can then generate new additionals IDocs and transfer the latest data for the additionals to the external vendor.

Integration

You can go straight from the results display for the analysis to the additionals monitor, where you can generate new additionals IDocs.

Prerequisites

In Customizing for additionals, you have entered the condition type that is used to update the price information for additionals documents.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Logistics - General under Additionals ® Enhancements for Properties of Merchandise Categories of Additionals.

Activities

On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Logistics ® Retailing ® Sales ® Additionals ® IDoc Request ® Change Analysis SP ® Change Analysis.

       1.      Enter criteria to select the articles or additionals document items that the system is to check for sales-price-relevant changes.

       2.      The system compares the current conditions for the article with the conditions that existed at the point of IDoc creation using a check sum that takes into account all the conditions in the article.

       3.      The system displays a list of the determined items.

Depending on the processing mode you have selected, process the worklist that the system has structured from your selection criteria, immediately or at a later date. If you want to process the worklist later, choose the relevant processing mode. The system saves the worklist with your user ID. You can call this worklist later for further processing.

The system only saves the worklist until you make a new selection. The worklist for the new selection overwrites the old worklist.

       4.      You can switch to the additionals monitor, process the items and generate new additionals IDocs.

Your authorization determines whether you can use functions in the additionals monitor for processing additionals documents.

Example

You assigned a price ticket additional (printed by an external vendor) to article 3114 (blouse, red, size 42) using the article master data. After you ordered the blouse, an additionals IDoc was generated for the price ticket and transferred to the external vendor.

The sales price for the blouse, article 3114, changes after additionals IDocs have been created but before the blouse is delivered. Using change analysis, you discover this price change shortly before the price tickets are due to be printed. You therefore create a new additionals IDoc in the additionals monitor and transfer the new data to the external vendor who is then able to provide you with correctly priced sales tickets.

See also:

Additionals: Additionals Monitor