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 Creating Pricing Reports

Use

You can create your own pricing reports in Customizing for Sales and Distribution under Start of the navigation path Sales and Distribution Next navigation step Basic Functions Next navigation step Pricing End of the navigation path (Transaction V/LA). Technically speaking, pricing reports represent ABAP/4 programs.

Note Note

The SAP Standard System contains pre-defined pricing reports, that can be started via the application menu (Choose Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Sales and Distribution Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Information system Next navigation step Conditions and Pricing Next navigation step Pricing Reports Next navigation step ). Pricing reports can also be used for maintaining conditions. Read End of the navigation path Maintaining Condition Records .

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Procedure

Check the extent to which the pricing reports in the SAP Standard System can be used. You can also display the defined pricing reports.

Create new pricing reports (in Customizing under Start of the navigation path Sales and Distribution Next navigation step Basic Functions Next navigation step Pricing Next navigation step , transaction V/LA). Proceed as follows: End of the navigation path

  • Enter a short text name, consisting of two characters, the first of which must be a letter, and the title of a pricing report that you would like to create. On the next data screen you will see all key fields used in conditions, listed in alphabetical order. Select all key fields that should be taken into consideration in the pricing report.

  • If you choose "Edit -> continue with AND", all condition tables are evaluated, that contain at least one of the selected key fields. If you choose "Edit -> continue with AND", all condition tables are evaluated, that contain at least one of the selected key fields. In the next dialog box, mark all condition tables that are to be evaluated.

  • Choose "Continue to list structure" to define the screen structure for the pricing report. Make sure that on the next screen all key fields from the selected tables appear. Fields, that are not used as selection criteria when displaying the list later, can be removed by undoing selection in the "Selection" column. Fields can be marked as obligatory fields on the selection screen. The structure of the pricing reports means that information can be placed in different places in the list. The layout contains the following elements:

This layout element...

has the following function in the list...

Page header

Information that applies to each report page

Group header

Subdivides information into categories

Item

Specific information from a condition record

Example

The following figure illustrates a section from a sample pricing report that provides information about customer-specific prices but does not include details of pricing scales. The different layout elements are indicated in the figure.