Conditions and Price Determination in SAP

Conditions and Price Determination in SAP

What are Conditon Types

The condition type is at he heart of the condition technique in SAP R/3. Essentially, a condition represents a major aspect or representation in R/3 of pricing activity in your organization. For example, there may be a condition type for the basic price of a material, there may be another condition type to determine a material discount, a customer discount, or a sales promotion. A material’s price might then be determined by a combination of condition types used within a pricing procedure.

To examine existing condition types, as used in an order, do the following:

• Pull up a previously created order
• Click in the box to the left of the item.
• Select Item –> Pricing F7 from the menu.
• Click on the button and examine the header of the next screen.

Understand Condition and Price Determination

The term pricing is used broadly to describe the calculation of prices (for external use by vendors) and costs (for internal purposes, such as cost accounting). Conditions represent a set of circumstances that apply when a price is calculated. For example, a certain quantity of a particular product is ordered on a certain day from a certain vendor.. The variable factors here – the vendor, the product, the order quantity, and the date – determine the final price the company will pay. The information about each of these factors can be stored in the system as master data. This master data is stored in the form of condition records.

This component enables the company to store pricing stipulations agreed with the vendor (such as applicable discounts or surcharges, or stipulations regarding the payment of freight costs) in the system. It can be possible to enter these conditions in quotations, outline purchase agreements, and info records. There is also the option of entering general conditions at vendor level, for example. The system then applies the conditions in determining the price in purchase orders (POs). In addition, further conditions can be maintained directly in the PO itself.

There are three kinds of price in Purchasing:

  • Gross price – Price without taking any possible discounts and surcharges into account
  • Net price – Price taking any applicable discounts and surcharges into account
  • Effective price – Net price after deduction of cash discount, with allowance for any miscellaneous provisions, delivery costs, and non-deductible taxes.

It is possible to enter conditions for items in respect of which an invoice is not expected to be received in purchase orders and outline agreements.

Time-Dependent and Time-Independent Conditions
A distinction is made between conditions that are valid for a certain period and conditions for which no special validity period can be specified. In the latter case, the validity period corresponds to that of the purchasing document. Whether time-dependent or time-independent conditions are created is determined via the document type.

Noted that if a percentage vendor discount is entered in a PO, this is a time-independent condition. However, if this discount condition is maintained in a contract, this is regarded as time-dependent.

Conditions Requiring Subsequent (End-of-Period) Settlement
It is also possible to store conditions that do not take effect immediately, but only at the end of a certain period. Settlement with regard to such conditions takes place subsequent to the settlement of vendor invoices relating to individual purchase orders.

Understand more about Pricing Conditions in this PDF file

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5 responses to “Conditions and Price Determination in SAP”

  1. Winnie Avatar
    Winnie

    just in time! i need it. thx

  2. Pat Avatar
    Pat

    I’m wondered that the attached file is regular-vendor-procedure.pdf which is not relevant to the condition topic, is it the correct attachment?

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      admin

      Oops, sorry for the wrong attachment. I have correct it now.

      Thanks Pat.

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    Pat

    Thanks for correction and very useful documents in this web

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    xudong

    ineed it thank you!!!!

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