SAP ABAP Data Element MRM_PRICE_OPTION (New Pricing Option)
Hierarchy
☛ ECC-DIMP (Software Component) DIMP
   ⤷ MM-IV-LIV-ERS (Application Component) ERS
     ⤷ ISAUTO_MRM (Package) Enhancements to Log. IV; ERS With Handling Surcharge, Reval.
Basic Data
Data Element MRM_PRICE_OPTION
Short Description New Pricing Option  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type MRM_PRICE_OPTION    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 1    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 1    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name    
Search Help: Parameters    
Parameter ID   
Default Component name    
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 NewPricing 
Medium 20 New Pricing Option 
Long 28 New Pricing Option 
Heading 28 New Pricing Option 
Documentation

Definition

Controls price determination in the settlement run in evaluated receipt settlement (ERS).

Use

For the settlement run, you can define whether a new price determination should be carried out and if so for which transactions.

Note
Unlike the standard ERS procedure, the ERS procedure (Automotive) can carry out a new price determination when the settlement document is created.

You have the following options for price determination:

  • New Price Determination for All ('_')
    For all transactions (that is for all goods receipts selected) a new price determination is carried out. Independent of the purchasing document (purchase order, scheduling agreement) the time-dependent conditions (for example, from the info record or the scheduling agreement/contract) are redetermined at the time of ERS.
    The date of the price determination (for example, order, delivery, current or goods receipt date) is determined using the price date category of the corresponding purchasing document item.
    If you want to use time-independent conditions (document conditions) that you have saved in the purchasing document, printed and if applicable, have changed between goods receipt and settlement, for price determination instead of using the time-dependent conditions, then you should either use New Price Determination on the GR Date (1) or No New Price Determination (2) for the ERS run.

    Note
    You should be aware that if you have set the price date category No Control ('_') in the purchasing document and set New Price Determination for All for ERS, then the settlement date will be used for the new price determination. The system interprets the price date category No Control ('_') as the date on which the purchase order was created, however in the ERS-run, the systems interprets the price date category as the date of settlement creation. This may lead to unwanted results, because these date specifications can in practice be relatively far apart, so that different prices may be valid in the time-dependent conditions.

  • New Price Determination on GR Date (1)
    In this case a new price determination is carried out on ERS only for those transactions, for which the price date category 5 is defined in the relevant purchasing document item (scheduling agreement or purchase order).
    This means, the GR posting date is used to determine the time- dependent conditions.
    You should use this price determination for all transactions for which you want a current value calculation at the time of goods receipt (purchase document items with price date category 5), and if the time-dependent conditions were retrospectively changed between goods receipt and the settlement run.
    This is intended above all for settlement of scheduling agreement releases, so that time-independent conditions that have been changed due to the long validity period of the contract are taken into account during settlement. For scheduling agreements the system automatically uses the price date category 5.
  • No New Price Determination (2)
    In this case - as in the ERS standard - no new price determination is carried out. The values that were already determined during calculation of value at the time of goods receipt (that is, the values from the purchase order history) are copied into the settlement documents.

Recommendation
If you work with scheduling agreements and purchase orders, but for purchase orders you want to use the conditions established in the document for settlement calculation of value as well, then you should not use New Price Determination for All.
New Price Determination on GR Date is often more suitable (above all for management of scheduling agreements), because retrospective price changes (in the time-dependent conditions) between goods receipt and evaluated receipt settlement - in relation to the GR date - can still be taken into account.
If there are too many unwanted results due to the new price determination at the time of settlement, then you should use No New Price Determination.
In this case, the ERS procedure (Automotive) functions in the same way as the standard ERS procedure and uses the GR values (that is, the values from the purchase order history) in the settlement document as well.

Dependencies

Price determination either takes place when you create the purchasing document or when you post the calculated goods receipt.

You define this date for the purchasing document item in question using the price date category.

  • Price Determination on Creation (Purchase Order)
    The price date categories '_' and '1' to '4' determine which validity period of the time-dependent conditions is taken into account when purchase orders are created and is used as the document condition.
    When purchase orders are created, time-dependent conditions (for example from an info record or contract) are generally determined and used as document conditions.
    • The conditions that are determined when purchase orders are created are not automatically updated, if, for example, the conditions in the info record have been changed, instead these conditions are valid for this purchase order and can only be changed in the purchase order. Therefore, once the document conditions have been determined, they are no longer date-dependent.
    The calculation of value (that is, quantity multiplied by conditions) takes place at the time of goods receipt, based on the conditions in the purchase order.

If Customizing is carried out accordingly, scheduling agreements can also have document conditions; generally however, master conditions are used. (Scheduling Agreement -> Define Document Types: Time-dependent Condition)

  • Price Determination on Goods Receipt (Scheduling Agreement and Purchase Order)
    The price date category GR Date (5) defines that, at the time of goods receipt, a current price determination always takes place for scheduling agreements and is optional for purchase orders (for example, contract release orders).
    In this case, the date of GR posting is used as the price determination date. The time-dependent conditions valid for this day (for example, from the info record or the contract) are determined and used for value calculation.

Example

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20050301 
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