Determining Future Prices (Automatically)

Procedure

Choose Logistics Materials Management Valuation Material Price Change Maintain Future Prices

Choose Accounting Controlling Product Cost Controlling Actual Costing/Material Ledger Material Ledger Set Prices Maintain Future Prices

Enter the data for the material for which you want to maintain the future valuation price.
Enter the validity date of the marking.
If you want to maintain future valuation prices automatically , choose Rule Maintenance .

The Material Ledger Is Not Active

Set the following criteria for determining future valuation prices:

Which existing price (such as standard price or periodic unit price ) is to be used.
By what factor the result is to be multiplied (for example, with a factor of 0.5 the price will be halved)

The Material Ledger Is Active

Set the following criteria for determining future valuation prices in each currency and valuation:

Which currency or valuation is to be used
Which existing price (such as standard price or periodic unit price ) is to be used.
The date from which the translation exchange rate is taken (only in cases with different currencies)
The exchange rate type ( average rate , for example) (only for differing currencies)
By what factor the result is to be multiplied (for example, with a factor of 0.5 the price will be halved)

Maintain the values.
Choose Execute .

Result

The new future valuation prices are updated in all currencies and valuations in the material ledger data and also in the company code currency in the material master record.

If you have activated the actual cost component split , the cost component split data of the reference price is transferred during automatic price maintenance.

You can release the new future valuation prices. For more information, see Releasing Planned Prices .

See also:

Determining Future Prices (Manually)