3. Working With Cond Rec

Question 0

2. Module contents (1 item):

Answer 0

1. Pricing reports and maintenance

Question 1

1. Module objectives (5 items):

Answer 1

1. Maintain cond using pricing reports
2. Create, change and copy cond records
3. Creating net price lists
4. Use cond index to find cond records
5. Use release procedure for cond records

Question 2

3. Pricing reports - customer-specific prices (5 items):

Answer 2

1. Generate a list of cond for an overview of existing cond records
2. You can check customer-specific prices within a certain period
3. Which incoterms cond records are stored
4. Which price lists carry scale prices
5. Set in customizing the structure of price list and cond records to be evaluated

Question 3

4. Pricing reports - tables (5 items):

Answer 3

1. First decide the views in which you want to analyze the cond records, by selecting specific fields from cond tables
2. System generates a list of tables containing at least one of the fields selected
3. From the list of tables you can select the tables for the report
4. The list layout is set by positioning and sorting the fields from the selected tables
5. These fields appear in one of three sections of the report: page header, grp header, items

Question 4

5. Cond maintenance via cond lists (5 items):

Answer 4

1. Cond maintenance has 2 interfaces
2. The new interface allows mass maintenance of cond records, across all cond types and tables
3. Also available is the old maintenance transaction, choosing “Select using cond type”
4. Mass maintenance interface can be config using area menus
5. The std area menu has the technical name COND_AV, while user-specific area menus can be created using t-code SE43 by copying the user menu COND_AV and changing it

Question 5

6. Creating cond records w/ reference (3 items):

Answer 5

1. New cond records can be created w/ ref to existing records
2. Changes can be made to rate, validity period and sales data
3. This function provides an efficient method to update cond records simultaneously

Question 6

7. Changing cond records (3 items):

Answer 6

1. Individual cond records can be maintained manually
2. Price change function allows you to maintain multiple cond records
3. Use change docs to review and monitor changes to cond records

Question 7

8. Copying cond records (4 items):

Answer 7

1. Multiple cond records can be created by copying an existing record
2. You may select from a range of copying rules
3. If copying a customer-specific record, you can create the target cond records over a specified range of customer numbers or material numbers
4. Copying rules are maintained in customizing and you can create your own

Question 8

9. Long texts in cond records (4 items):

Answer 8

1. You can maintain long texts for agreements (rebates, sales deals and promotion) and pricing
2. These provide info about creating cond records, approvals and invalidity
3. Long texts can be copied from agreements to documents
4. Long texts are not copied from pricing records to documents

Question 9

10. Net price lists (4 items):

Answer 9

1. Net price list offers the option of creating price info for a customer on selected materials
2. Net prices are determined by simulating a billing doc
3. List is displayed via ABAP list viewer
4. Customer-specific display variants are easily created via the fields in VBRP table

Question 10

11. Cond indexes (4 items):

Answer 10

1. Create and use indexes to find cond records
2. Activation function displays a list of all the available cond indexes and indicates which ones are active
3. You must first activate the indexes in customizing for sales before you can use them
4. If you create your own index the system automatically activates it, but you must specify an update requirement for it, defining whether the system updates the index when a new cond record is posted

Question 11

12. Release procedure for cond (4 items):

Answer 11

1. You can allow a release procedure to be used when a cond table is created by selecting “With release status” checkbox
2. The fields KFRST (release status) and KBSTAT (processing status) are added
3. The statuses defined are released (predefined), blocked, released for price sim (net price list) and released for planning and price sim (planning in CO-PA)
4. Release status is set indirectly by defining a processing status in customizing for pricing and assigning a release status to the processing status

Question 12

13. Calc types (3 items):

Answer 12

1. Calc type for a cond type is set in customizing
2. Calc type determines how prices, discounts and surcharges are calc for a cond
3. When creating new cond records, you can select a calc type diff than one in customizing