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Handling of Price Fixation Options (New)

Use

As of SAP enhancement package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0 (SAP_APPL 617), you can use the price fixation process to define and exercise price fixation options when defining pricing rules in the commodity pricing engine (CPE). You define the price fixation option at CPE-term level. As a prerequisite, you must use price quotations based on derivative contract specifications (DCS).

For more information, see Market Data Based on DCS or Market Data Based on DCS. Within price fixation, the following features are available:

  • Price Fixation Option
  • Definition of Price Fixation Option

  • Exercise of Price Fixation Option

  • Price Fixation and Business Documents
  • Price Fixation in Purchasing

Price Fixation Option

Depending on the different interests and the market power of the parties involved, the price negotiation for each commodity usually results in one of the following price types when conducting commodity sales and purchasing activities:

  • Floating price
  • Fixed price
  • Mixture of a floating and a fixed price

A price fixation option means that for the whole price-relevant quantity, a floating price is defined as the starting value and the option can then be used to replace the floating price with an agreed fixed price, either in part or for the whole pricing-relevant quantity.

The price fixation process consists of the following steps:

  1. Definition of the price fixation option
  2. Exercise of the price fixation option and its documentation in the system
  3. Use of the agreed fixed prices during the net price calculation

Definition of Price Fixation Option

When you create a price fixation option, the following functions are available:

  • You can select a CPE term to create a price fixation option.
  • You can define the earliest (optional) and the latest exercise date to determine the period in which the option can be exercised. For each date, you can use the price fixation exercise date routine with the following default values:
  • 1: End of configured QP

  • 2: Manual Date Entry

  • 3: Reference Date

  • 4: Start of configured QP

Note: If you exercise the price fixation option or a part of it after the latest exercise date, the system only informs you about this fact but does not prevent you from performing any further exercise activities.

  • You can enter a comment for the price fixation option.
  • You can define the price fixation limit routine that calculates the overall used quantity to which a fixed price can be assigned. You can choose between the following available routine implementations:
  • 1: Manually entered maximum quantity, for example 700 TO.

  • 2: Manually entered maximum percentage. You define the percentage by using a combination of factors, for example if factor 1 is three and factor 2 is four, the combination is three-quarters which corresponds to 75%.

The percentage refers to the calculated quantity used within the term evaluation.
You configure the calculation of the quantity by selecting the quantity split routine of the CPE formula.
Example: Item quantity 1000 TO, quantity split routine implementation 1 Whole Quantity for every Term, factor 1 is three and factor 2 is four, the combination is three-quarters which corresponds to 75%.
The calculated price fixation limit is 75% of 1000 TO = 750 TO.

Note: If you choose this routine implementation, the price fixation limit is recalculated during each net price calculation or CPE formula evaluation. If the delivered quantity billed in the invoice (1060 TO) differs from the planned delivery quantity in the order (1000 TO), the price fixation limit changes from 750 TO to 795 TO (= 75% x 1060 TO).

  • You can define the quantity distribution routine for price fixation to determine the quantities that are calculated with a fixed price. The remaining quantity is calculated with a floating price. You can choose between the following available routine implementations:
  • Proportional distribution based on entered factors, for example for an item quantity = 1000 TO:

70% price 1 = 700 TO price 1
20% price 2 = 200 TO price 2
The system calculates the remaining 10% non-fixed quantity, in this case 100 TO, using the agreed floating price rule.
  • Proportional distribution based on calculated ratio between entered absolute quantities and calculated sum of the entered absolute quantities, for example for an item quantity = 1000 TO

700 TO price 1 = 70% price 1
200 TO price 2 = 20% price 2
The system calculates the remaining 10% non-fixed quantity, in this case 100 TO, using the agreed floating price rule.

Exercise of Price Fixation Option

For each CPE formula term for which you have defined a price fixation option, you can create multiple exercise terms. For each exercise term, you can enter the following data:

  • According to the quantity distribution routine that you selected for the price fixation when defining the price fixation option, you can enter the following quantities or percentages:
  • Agreed proportional distribution based on entered factors, for example 70% fixed for first fixation.

  • Agreed proportional distribution based on a calculated ratio between entered absolute quantities and the calculated sum of the entered absolute quantities, for example 700 TO of 1000 TO fixed for first fixation.

  • Agreed entered absolute fixed quantities, for example 700 TO.

  • An agreed fixed price, a date or a period. If you enter a date or period, the system refers to the same market data that is referenced by the corresponding CPE formula term. For example, you enter either 7000 USD per ton or you enter quoted at August 1st, 2012. The system automatically refers to the market price, for example LME Copper.
  • Agreed fixed currency exchange rate, for example 1.25678 USD per 1 EUR.

Price Fixation and Business Documents

A prerequisite of the price fixation process is that the pricing data in the business document can still be changed, for example a sales order is not yet fully and finally invoiced.

If you have a scenario where the price fixation option is defined in one business document and the option is exercised in a subsequent business document, before you can exercise the price fixation, you must ensure that the definition of the price fixation option is created in the preceding document for the same combination of condition type and CPE term number.

In the same way as is done for the classical pricing data stored in database table KONV, all data belonging to the price fixation option is copied to the pricing-relevant subsequent document, for example from sales order to invoice.

We recommend that you define and exercise the price fixation option in a specific combination of business document categories, depending on how you have implemented your sales or purchasing process. This ensures that the price fixation functions will be integrated smoothly and seamlessly into your existing process design. For more information, see SAP Note 1860953.

Note: The price fixation functions are only supported for scenarios that have 1:1 cardinality between order item and delivery item (SD and MM).

You can define or exercise a price fixation option in the following business documents:

SD documents:

  • Inquiry
  • Quotation
  • Sales contract
  • Sales order
  • Invoice

MM documents:

  • Purchase order

GTM documents:

  • Trading contract
  • Precontract

Price Fixation in Purchasing

The following additional settings are a prerequisite for using the price fixation process on the MM side:

  • The price determination date is equal to the goods receipt (GR) date: The Pr. Date Cat. (Price Determination (Pricing) Date Control) field is set to 5.
  • The purchase order item to which the goods receipt item refers must be relevant for goods-receipt-based invoice verification (checkbox GR-Based IVon the Invoice tab page).
  • The purchase order item must be relevant for differential invoicing (Differential Invoicingfield on the Invoice tab page).

The following business functions are a prerequisite if you are using condition types in the pricing scheme that enable calculation via the commodity pricing engine (CPE):

  • Logistics, Commodity Pricing Engine in SD and MM (LOG_CPE_SD_MM) is available as of SAP enhancement package 3 for SAP ERP 6.0.
  • CPE: BAdI-Based Formula Handling (LOG_CPE_FA_FE) is available as of SAP enhancement package 6 for SAP ERP 6.0.

Effects on Existing Data

Effects on Data Transfer

Effects on System Administration

Effects on Customizing

You make the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for Sales and Distribution, under Basic Functions -> Commodity Pricing -> Commodity Pricing Engine -> General CPE Settings -> Define Partner- or Customer-Specific CPE Routine -> Price Fixation

You make the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for Materials Management, under Purchasing -> Commodity Pricing -> Commodity Pricing Engine -> General CPE Settings -> Define Partner- or Customer-Specific CPE Routine -> Price Fixation

Further Information

Release notes LOG_SD_COMMODITY_02: Business Function Contract-to-Cash for Commodities 2 (New), LOG_MM_COMMODITY_02: Business Function Procure-to-Pay for Commodities 2 (New).

SAP Library for SAP ERP under SAP ERP Central Component -> Logistics -> Sales and Distribution -> Pricing and Conditions -> Commodity Pricing

SAP Library for SAP ERP under SAP ERP Central Component -> Logistics -> Materials Management -> Purchasing -> Conditions and Price Determination -> Commodity Pricing






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