Pricing and the Condition Technique in SAP ERP

Ursula Becker, Werner Herhuth, Manfred Hirn

• Publisher: SAP PRESS
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781493214211
• eBook ISBN: 9781493214228
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Computer Science General
• Index: Computer Science

Wrap your head around pricing and the condition technique with this nuts-and-bolts guide! First become versed in the fundamentals: condition types, master data settings, and condition lists. Then employ standard configurations, from condition records to pricing in sales documents. Use function modules, deploy user exits, and create custom workarounds to pick the right price for your products! Fundamentals Walk step by step through the essential elements of the condition technique and see how condition records, tables, and types form the basis of your calculation. Then set up condition master data and filter condition records with condition lists. Standard Configuration Learn to create a condition table and access sequence, maintain a release status, handle pricing in sales documents, and determine taxes. Advanced Techniques Want to implement data determination via the condition technique? Handle freight surcharges? Add a second or third subtotal field? Kick your pricing practices up a notch with advanced techniques!

Highlights:

• Condition technique
• Pricing
• SAP ERP
• Materials Management (MM)
• Sales and Distribution (SD)
• Master data
• Function modules
• User exits
• Configuration
• Performance and testing
• Rebate processing

Part I

Foundations

The first part of this book introduces the condition technique, which represents the core of pricing. The condition technique was originally developed for pricing. As it evolved, the condition technique was also used for many other determination processes such as output determination. This part includes an introduction to the application areas and elements of the condition technique, the maintenance of the condition master data for pricing, and their evaluations and worklists.

The condition technique is a configurable method that was built to define and access master data. It was developed as a generic solution for determination processes. In this first chapter, essential basic functionalities are presented and we will become familiar with the terms of the condition technique.

1 Application Areas and Elements of the Condition Technique

Every business function requires master data: Customer order management and billing use customer master data and material master data, purchasing needs vendor master data and posting documents need G/L accounts. When designing master data objects, you always ask yourself how the key structure of these objects should look. Should the data depend on the sales organization, the company code, or other organizational elements? This is not always an easy decision, especially because SAP as a vendor of standard software aims to meet not only the known requirements but also as much as possible potential future challenges. This means that a maximal flexibility is needed. SAP’s response to this challenge is the condition technique.

The basic idea for the condition technique was born during the development of the pricing functionality, but it soon became clear that the underlying construction principles were also perfect for other application areas. The condition technique is also used in all new functionalities where the key structure of the master data objects was not fixed from the start, but instead highly dependent on the customer demands. Examples of this are material listing, material exclusion, and material substitution.

To differentiate between application areas, the term condition usage (or simply usage) was introduced. Before we look at some examples of this condition usage, we will concentrate on properties of condition master data (condition recor...

Table of contents

• Dear Reader
• Notes on Usage
• Table of Contents
•   Preface by Manfred Hirn
•   Preface by Werner Herhuth
•   Preface by Ursula Becker
•   Introduction
• Part I   Foundations
• 1   Application Areas and Elements of the Condition Technique
• 2   Pricing Condition Master Data
• 3   Condition Lists
• Part II   Standard Configuration
• 4   Pricing Configuration
• 5   Working with Condition Records
• 6   Pricing in the Sales Document
• 7   Special Functions in Pricing
• 8   Pricing Procedures and Condition Type s in Sales and Distribution
• Part III   Advanced Techniques, Tips, and Tricks
• 9   Special Features of the Condition Technique in Pricing
• 10   Important Programs for Pricing
• 11   System Adaptation Using Requirements, Formulas, and User Exits
• 12   Typical Practice Demands on Pricing and Their Solutions
• 13   Pricing in Selected Applications
• 14   Performance and Testing
• Part IV   Rebate Processing in Sales
• 15   Rebate Processing in Sales
• A   Condition Type Profiles
• B   The Authors
• Index
• Service Pages
• Legal Notes