1. Cond Technique In Pricing

Question 0

2. Module objectives (2 items):

Answer 0

1. Basics of pricing

2. Intro to cond technique

Question 1

1. Module objectives (7 items):

Answer 1

1. How to use cond in pricing
2. How to use cond records
3. Locate cond types in customizing
4. Explain meaning of pricing procedures
5. Describe pricing procedures and access sequences
6. Describe special features of header cond
7. Control new pricing using pricing type

Question 2

3. Cond master data (2 items):

Answer 2

1. Master data for cond is stored in cond records

2. Levels at which pricing is most commonly carried out have been predefined and shipped in the std version

Question 3

4. Examples of important cond groups (4 items):

Answer 3

1. Prices - price list, mat price, customer specific
2. Disc / surcharges - customer, mat, price grp, mpg
3. Freight - incoterms
4. Taxes - departure country / dest. country, domestic, export

Question 4

5. Structure of cond records (3 items):

Answer 4

1. Cond records are always defined for a key comb that is assigned to the respective cond type (i.e. cond tables)
2. You can specify a validity period to limit a pricing agreement to a specific period
3. The values in a cond record can be defined according to a scale

Question 5

6. Cond types (2 items):

Answer 5

1. Cond type determines the category of a cond and how it is used
2. The calc type and the scale base type can be controlled for each cond type

Question 6

7. Cond maintenance (2 items):

Answer 6

1. Mass maintenance available with SAP R/3 release 4.6A and later
2. Or you can use “Select using cond type” transaction

Question 7

8. Intro to pricing procedure (2 items):

Answer 7

1. All cond types permitted for a transaction in pricing are contained in the pricing procedure
2. The pricing procedure is determined in customizing according to sales area, sales doc (doc pricing procedure) and sold-to party (customer pricing procedure)

Question 8

9. Examples of control fields in pricing procedure (6 items):

Answer 8

1. Level in the pricing procedure determines the sequence in which the cond are processed and placed in the sales doc
2. The pricing procedure can contain any number of subtotals
3. Reference level lets you define an alternative base for calc the cond value (default value is the current value from processing prev cond type) and for consolidating cond for subtotals
4. You can specify requirements to determine how system uses cond types
5. You can mark a cond type in the pricing procedure as being: mandatory, manual (any access sequence is ignored) or statistical
6. There are also technical attributes such as calc formulas, base formula and print indicator

Question 9

10. Access sequence (6 items):

Answer 9

1. Access sequence is a search strategy to find cond records for a cond type
2. This search strategy defines the sequence in which the system reads the cond records for a cond type
3. Access sequence can be assigned to a cond type, except for header cond
4. Each access in access sequence is defined in a cond table
5. Cond table is a combination of fields that form the key for a cond record
6. If an access sequence contains more than one access they are usually arranged from specific to general descending order

Question 10

11. Changing prices manually in docs (5 items):

Answer 10

1. Prices determined automatically by the system can be changed manually and are then marked as such
2. In the con records you can specify limits within which a manual change can be made
3. Cond can also be entered manually in the docs and are marked as such
4. You can prevent one cond type from being changed manually in customizing
5. You can change or create cond on the cond screen

Question 11

12. Header cond (2 items):

Answer 11

1. Are valid for all items and automatically distributed among the items based on net value
2. The basis can be changed in the pricing procedure by selecting the appropriate routine (e.g. gross weight, net weight, volume)

Question 12

13. New pricing and pricing types (3 items):

Answer 12

1. You can configure pricing behavior in pricing type
2. In the new pricing function in the sales doc, you can update prices on the cond screens and choose pricing type in dialog box or use the new pricing doc function after assigning a pricing type in customizing
3. These functions are supported for both sales and billing docs

Question 13

14. Pricing in billing doc (2 items):

Answer 13

1. Copying control makes it possible to handle repricing of billing docs for diff scenarios
2. What happens to pricing calc during billing is a customer specific decision