Use

You use this function if you want to extend pricing to use complex pricing rules in sales documents, purchasing documents, and in the trading contract. Pricing for commodities is based on agreed complex rules rather than fixed prices or amounts in the Commodity Pricing Engine (CPE). These complex rules determine how price quotations and exchange rates are used to calculate the price of the document.

Integration

Condition types integrate pricing with commodity pricing. Commodity pricing takes place for condition types with calculation type Q . Each condition type can have a maximum of one CPE formula. No condition determination takes place for these condition types; the CPE formulas are copied from the corresponding price-relevant preceding documents and can be processed in the current document. Pricing calls commodity pricing and transfers the valid application ( V for SD, M for MM) in addition to the business attributes.

Prerequisites

You have made the necessary application-specific settings for ERP pricing.

You have created application-specific condition types with calculation type Q and included these condition types in your application-specific pricing procedure.

If you use a sales process that starts in SAP CRM, you have made the necessary settings with the Solution Manager.

Features

The CPE determines condition rates and condition values, and makes these results available in ERP pricing.

The CPE evaluates the CPE-relevant condition types FA00 and FA0R. The system transfers the prices and values that the CPE determines to ERP pricing.

Activities

During ERP pricing at item level, the system performs the following steps:

Before the valuation of each condition type, commodity pricing takes place for all formulas in this item. Commodity pricing results in condition rates and values for the corresponding formulas.

During the valuation of each condition type, these condition rates and values are selected if the condition type has calculation type Q.

Example

During ERP pricing at item level, the system performs the following steps:

The pricing procedure contains a list of condition types, including several with calculation type Q

The system evaluates the CPE formulas for all condition types with calculation type Q

ERP pricing determines the values of all condition types; during this process, the values for calculation type Q are transferred from the CPE.