Pricing

To retrieve the correct pricing information for calculating the price, discount, or transportation costs of an order, load, or shipment, you can specify pricing matrices. A matrix is a structure in which pricing information is grouped according to particular criteria.

You can use price books to store base prices, discounts and other information about items. You can use repair price books to store fixed repair prices for internal subcontracting for depot repair.

You can use a supplier price book to quickly retrieve and maintain prices for a buy-from business partner, ship-from business partner, and item combination.

You can use discount schedules to calculate discounts for an item. The discounts defined in a discount schedule are expressed as a percentage or an amount and are subject to a minimum or maximum quantity or value.

You can use promotions to apply an additional discount, value off, or premium to a sales order based on predefined order levels of selected items. Two types of promotions exist: order level and line level.

You can use freight rate books to store freight rates. A freight rate is used to calculate transportation costs for items listed on loads, shipments, and orders. A freight rate includes, for example, an amount per distance or zone, a weight, service level, or carrier.

Retrieval and calculation of prices, discounts, and promotions takes place in one run when an order or contract is saved. Freight costs are calculated when load building is performed, or when the user launches the freight cost calculation process from sales orders, purchase orders, freight orders or shipments.

You can specify the pricing data for operation subcontracting, item subcontracting, or service subcontracting to retrieve subcontracting purchase prices.

You can perform the following: