Price Confirmation
When the supplier confirms a purchase order item, he or she can enter a price that differs from the requested price. However, the customer may not want the supplier to confirm a different price, or may want to set tolerances within which the confirmed price may lie. Therefore, when the supplier saves or publishes the purchase order, SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) checks whether the confirmed price is acceptable by using deviation analysis. If the confirmed price is not acceptable, a warning is created (upon saving) or an error is created (upon publishing). The supplier can publish a purchase order, only if the confirmed price is acceptable.
Note
Price confirmation is not possible as part of work order collaboration. This is because in work order collaboration, the supplier is only allowed to create work order confirmations. Once the customer and supplier have agreed on the work order content, the purchase order copies the confirmation data from the work order. Since price confirmation is not available in work order collaboration, price confirmations are also not relevant to purchase orders from which a work order was created.
Prerequisites
You have activated price confirmations in Customizing for
Supply Network Collaboration
under
Purchase Order
Make General Settings for Purchase Orders
.You have specified whether deviation analysis compares the confirmed price with the requested price or with the original price. In the standard system, deviation analysis compares the confirmed price with the original price. In the standard system, SAP SNC uses the original price. For more information, see Customizing for
Supply Network Collaboration
under Basic Settings
Consensus Finding
Consensus Profiles
Maintain Consensus Price Profiles
Features
Deviation Analysis of Confirmed Price
When the supplier publishes or saves a purchase order confirmation, the PO_PRICE_CONFIRMATION
validation check calls deviation analysis for price confirmations.
If the confirmed price is acceptable, SAP SNC copies the confirmed price to the requested price using the PO_CONF_PRICE_COPY
validation check. This validation check is not active in the standard system.
Original Price
When the customer sends a purchase order to SAP SNC for the first time, SAP SNC transfers the requested priced to the Original Price
field. If, after the supplier has confirmed a price, the customer subsequently sends an updated purchase order to SAP SNC, SAP
SNC does not change the original price if the new requested price is the same as the confirmed price in the purchase order. If, however, an updated purchase order contains a requested price that differs from the confirmed price, SAP SNC copies this requested price to the Original Price
field.
Price Confirmations Received from Supplier Back-End System
When a purchase order confirmation is received from the supplier back-end system, the following validation checks are relevant for the confirmed price:
POCONF_PO_CURRENCY_IDENTICAL
This checks that the currency of the price in the confirmation matches the currency of the purchase order in SAP SNC. If it does not match, SAP SNC stops processing the purchase order confirmation.
POCONF_PO_CONFPRICE_ADJUST
This checks that the base unit of measure of the net price and the base quantity of the net price in the confirmation matches the base unit of measure and base quantity for the price in the purchase order in SAP SNC. If they do not match, SAP SNC converts the net price of the confirmation so that it uses the base unit of measure and base quantity of the net price in the purchase order in SAP SNC.