S4 HANA SALES PRICING AND FIORI APPS

Question 1

Sales Order pricing

Answer 1

Sales orders are priced based on pricing schema determined for the order

Question 2

Sales Order pricing overview pt 1

Answer 2

Pricing schema contains pricing elements like gross price, discounts, taxes freight and the related master / condition data to store the element values. These are dfined as configuration and master data in the application

Question 3

Sales Order pricing overview pt 2

Answer 3

In the sales ordr, the pricing schema is determined for the entire order and the pricing values are determined based on the order context – sales area, business partner, materials of the order

Question 4

Sales Order pricing overview pt 3

Answer 4

Some of pricing values are releveant for the entire order, while some are applicable to individual items

Question 5

Sales Order pricing overview pt 4

Answer 5

Net line item value and tax are displayed for each line item, while the Net document value and total tax are displayed at the overview level

Question 6

Sales Order pricing overview pt 5

Answer 6

Manual pricing is allowed for certain scenarios when the business need recommends the user to manually apply discounts, freight etc.

Question 7

Statistical condition types

Answer 7

Condition types just for statistical purposes. They are included in the sales order conditions tab, but are not included in calculations of the Net and Tax prices for all the items.

Question 8

Sales order item pricing

Answer 8

Sales order item pricing is calulated by executing all the relevant pricing elements in the schema.

System loops through all conditions in the schema for each item to arrive at line item pricing values.

Question 9

Sales pricing configuration overview

Answer 9

FOr the pricing to work properly many of the following configurations are to be in place

• Pricing schema with all pricing elemnts (condition types) defined
• Pricing schema determination
• Conditions types, condition tables and access sequences
• Condition records to store actual pricing values

Question 10

Pricing Schema

Answer 10

Contains all the condition types relevant for priing along with some important control parameters.

Question 11

Pricing schema parameters

Answer 11

Manual, automatic or statistical indicator

From & To indicators to set the base value for % based conditions

Alternate base value type

Alternate calculation type

Requirement routine number to implement condition exclusion, suppress pricing etc

Accural and account keys to identify G/L accounts

Question 12

Different Pricing schemas

Answer 12

It is possible to provide different pricing schemas for different customer groups and also based on the sales order scenario

• This is achived by two indicators set; one in sold-party master and another in sales document type

Question 13

Pricing schema determination

Answer 13

Pricng schema is determined at the entry of sales order transaction.

It is based on the sales area, and document type of the current order

Question 14

Sales order - pricing shcema at header level

Answer 14

System applies the condition types for all the line items and calculate the prices

Header level condition types are always calculated manually

They either apply full amount to each of the line item or apportion to the line values on a proportionate basis

Question 15

Pricing Condition Technique

Answer 15

Individual pricing element values (condition records) are determined based on the condition technique framework

Question 16

Condition types

Answer 16

Model pricing elements - prices, discounts, taxs freight etc.

• Condition category provides classication for the conditon type
• Access sequence is assigned if price is determined automatically based on condition records
• Caluclation type identifies how the value is caluclated – amount, percentage, formula
• Condition supplements pricing procedure is assigned. Header or item condition indicator is set

Question 17

Condition tables

Answer 17

model key combinations (from most specific to most general)

Ex

• Sales org/customer/material
• Customer/material
• Material

Question 18

Access sequences

Answer 18

Lists condition tables in a sequence. Include the condition tables from most specific to general in a sequence. System searches for condition values in that order.

• Exclusion indicator stops the search for condition records after a record is found

Question 19

Condition records

Answer 19

Model pricing element values and they are created for required key combinations – condition tables

Master data

Question 20

Conditon technique process

Answer 20

System searches for the condition records by taking the order context values like sales org, customer, material and looks up in each condition table to find the condition record value

Question 21

Pricing analysis

Answer 21

In a sales order, provides the current execution details of pricing (tells you how the price is being derived). It is helpful to identify missing prices and errors.

Question 22

Header, item and group conditions

Answer 22

Pricing allows to configure header, item and group conditions based on the different business requirements

Question 23

Header conditions

Answer 23

Always manual, hence no access sequnce is assigned.

Question 24

Item conditions

Answer 24

Are both manual and automatic. If automatic, access sequence is attached. They are applicable to the sales line item.

Question 25

Group conditions

Answer 25

Applicable to a few line items based on same material group, price group.

They can also be header conditions.

Question 26

Item Condition Type

Answer 26

Automatically identified, (if accss sequence is assigned) in the sales order line

Question 27

Condition exclusion

Answer 27

Used to select the best possible price among a set of conditions. It is implemented in many ways

• By setting a exlcusion indicator either in the condition type or reocrd and using reuqirment routines
• By creation of condition exclusion groups and conditon types to exclusion groups
• By default, only one active prie is active in the sales order

Question 28

Exclusion by way of Condition class ‘B’

Answer 28

If two prices belonging to condition class ‘B’ are determined, then the system by defualt makes the last price inactive.

Question 29

Free goods pricing

Answer 29

• Free goods pricing schema is defined and determination configuration (standard) is in place
• Free goods condition type is defined and assigned to the avoce pricing schema
• Free goods item category determination
• Free goods condition – inclusive /exclusive are defined

Question 30

Free goods condition - Inclusive

Answer 30

Free goods are included in the total quanity

e.g

Buy 10 get 1 free (out of 10, 9 are priced)

Question 31

Free goods condition - Exclusive

Answer 31

free goods are exclusded in the total quantity

e.g

Buy 10 get 1 free (out of 11, 10 PC are priced)

Question 32

Output Management

Answer 32

S/4 HANA uses Adobe server (doc) output formats to communicate business documents like invoices etc.

• BRF+ transaction used to define business rules for output
• Adobe is the target architecture
• NAST based output management is not available
• Supported channels
• Print using spool
• Email
• XML (Ariba integration)
• IDOC (limited support)

Question 33

‘OPD’

Answer 33

Output management: transaction

Question 34

Fiori App: Order performance monitor

Answer 34

Used to manage the order-to-cash performance