Friday, September 6, 2013

SAP Special Pricing Functions with Promotions and Sales Deals


I have been longing to write this since a few years and finally I am. In SAP, apart from the regular pricing using the PR00 condition type for price maintenance and K00X condition types for discounts maintenance, SAP has a unique pricing functionality called special pricing functions.

The special pricing functions are used for carrying marketing plans during particular promotional events for the organization with what is called the Promotions and Sales Deals in SAP.

Promotion: A promotion is typically a plan to be executed for a group of materials/customer or any certain criteria based on the organizational requirement. In SAP this promotion is a virtual representation of a plan with just a few control parameters like it has a number, validity period, payment terms and some text maintenance with the master data residing in what is known as the Sales Deals.

Sales Deals: Sales deals as mentioned is actual representation of a promotion with multiple sales deals tied to a promotion. The sales deal could be unique per each product line or per each customer group etc. A sales deal in SAP is defined as a group of two or more condition types executed during the order processing for the promotional period. The actual master data for the condition record data resides in the sales deal via the condition type combination.

Both the Promotions and Sales Deals are referred to as Agreement Types from a configuration stand point and a key in the Agreement type differentiates a promotion from a sales deal. A hierarchical representation of a promotion, Sales Deal and Condition type is show below and the details of the configuration will be posted in the subsequent blog. In the mean time to check the details, use transaction code VB31 for promotion (0030) and VB21 for sales deal (0020).


P.S - Source: SAP Help


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