Pricing - SAP Documentation

Use

In Warranty Claim Processing, pricing serves to determine specific prices and post them to Financial Accounting for each warranty claim item and each warranty claim version. The system determines the appropriate condition records and therefore also the prices using the condition technique (see also: Introduction to the Condition Technique ).

Integration

Pricing in Warranty Claim Processing is the same as the pricing functions that are used in Sales and Distribution (SD-BF-PR). The only difference is the application RW for Warranty Claim Processing .

You can find further information in the standard documentation under Pricing and Conditions .

Prerequisites

You have entered a partner with a customer or vendor master record in the version for which pricing is to be performed.
You have entered a material number for each item in the warranty claim for which pricing is to be performed. The material number can be determined automatically in the background via a catalog or an external number can be entered.
You have defined the following in Customizing for Warranty Claim Processing under Pricing :

Pricing procedure

Condition type

Access sequences

Tables

Field catalog

(Usage A for Pricing , application RW for Warranty Claim Processing ).
If required, you have defined default condition types for header conditions in Customizing for Warranty Claim processing under Pricing Define Default Values for Header Conditions.
If you want to work with header conditions, you have linked screen group S2025 into the screen layout of your warranty type in Customizing for Warranty Claim Processing under Layout Define Screen Layouts.
You have assigned a pricing procedure to each warranty claim type in Customizing for Warranty Claim Processing under Define Warranty Claim Types .
You have defined condition records for pricing ( transactions WYP1, WYP2, WYP3 ).
If you use pricing procedure WT0001 that is delivered with the standard system (see below) and want to work with condition 597 , you have defined which condition type is to be restricted to which category and for which item type (material, labor value, external service) this restriction should be valid.You do this in Customizing for Warranty Claim processing under Pricing Restrict Validity of Condition Types ).
You have defined copy procedures in Customizing for Warranty Claim Processing under Control Data Copying Control Define Copy Procedures and assigned a copy procedure to each possible copying transaction within a warranty claim type under Control Data Copying Control Assign Copy Procedures to Claim Types. By doing this you have defined whether, per item type, the prices should be copied or not when you copy versions.

Features

Pricing on Version and Item Level

The version in the warranty claim corresponds to the header in the SD sales order. Each version can contain pricing information, i.e.: pricing functions are available at any time and in any version. Price changes are basically only possible for active versions that have not yet been posted to FI.

When you create a new version, pricing is always carried out again. The basis for this is the copying of the price information from the referenced version (see Customizing for the copy procedure), a manual entry or an access to master data.

The item in the warranty claim corresponds to the item in the SD sales order. This means that you can call the pricing screen for each item and execute a pricing separately.
Manual/Automatic Pricing

When a new version is created, pricing can be principally always be carried out automatically based on the master data or manually by transferring external price conditions.
Posting to Financial Accounting

In Customizing for Action Control ( Define Action Controls ) you can define which categories can be posted in FI. In principal, all four categories can be posted in FI. However, it is recommended to choose just one category from each of the category pairs: Versions from Claimant/Versions to Claimant (credit memo, payable) and Versions from Reimburser/Versions to Reimburser (debit memo, receivable).
Customizing in the SAP Standard System Delivery

The following pricing procedures are delivered with the SAP standard system:
- Pricing procedure WT0002 (simple procedure) supports four pricing condition types (one per category), several addition/deduction condition types and two condition types for VAT and input tax. The four pricing condition types allow you, for example, to post the amounts for the four possible categories to different accounts and enter different account keys.
- Pricing procedure WT0001 supports 12 pricing condition types; within the pricing condition type it differentiates not only by category but also according to material/labor value/external service. The other settings are such that the person responsible for the standard postcrediting case has a type of history and can track how much was originally requested by the claimant, the amount that was forwarded to the reimburser, the amount that the reimburser approved and how much was finally agreed on as payment to the claimant.
- Pricing procedure WT0012 supports the posting of an amount to an interim account (G/L account) before this amount is posted from the interim account to the warranty revenue account in a second step (see: Posting in Accounting (FI/CO) ). These reserves make sense if, for example, amounts should not yet be paid to the warranty revenue account in a precrediting case as long as the warranty claim is still in process. Account key WY3 is used for posting from the interim account to the warranty revenue account; the appropriate indicator is set for this account key in the pricing procedure.
- Pricing procedure WT0022 allows you to change the CO account assignments that are determined automatically for individual condition types.
Note
You can find further information on these pricing procedures in the system documentation for IMG activity Define Pricing Procedures .

End of the note.

Activities

Check the cumulated prices for all items of a version on the tab page Prices - Version . You can also enter header conditions for this version manually on this tab page, for example percent discounts and absolute discounts. If you then choose Activate or save the claim, the amounts you have entered are distributed amongst the individual items (absolute discount) or the percentages for the individual items are calculated (percent discount).

Choose Update to execute pricing again.
Check the prices per item on the tab page Item Detail . Only those condition types for which condition records have been found are displayed and/or those condition records without an access sequence, in other words without condition records, for which prices can only be entered manually. Condition types that have been defined in Customizing as manual are not displayed. Where required, change the prices manually and/or add further item condition types. You can only choose condition types for which you can make manual entries.

Choose Analysis to go to the condition analysis. The system displays a list of all the valid condition types for the item with a brief overview of the transactions involved in the automatic pricing. You can use this information to help you check how the individual pricing elements for the item were calculated in the system.

Choose Update to execute pricing again.
If you work with screen group S2025 (see: prerequisites), you can, if required, enter header conditions for all versions of a warranty claim manually in this overview screen, for example percentage discounts and absolute discounts. If you then choose Activate or save the claim, the amounts you have entered are distributed amongst the individual items (absolute discount) or the percentages for the individual items are calculated (percent discount).