Assigning Pricing Criteria to Products

Define pricing criteria for products in the product record to ensure that the product maintains these pricing criteria regardless of what group or branches are placed on an order.

Set the following criteria for products in the product record:

To assign pricing criteria to a product:

  1. From the Maintenance menu, select Product to display the Product Maintenance window.

  2. In the Product field, enter a product ID to display the product record.

  3. Select Pricing > Product Price Maintenance to display the Product Price Maintenance dialog box.

  1. Select File > Hierarchy, enter a branch, and click OK to view the settings for a specific branch and where those settings came from. All territories that contain that branch display in the Branch /Territory  column below the branch, in the order of the  territory priority. For more information, see Branch Hierarchy Details.

  2. Complete the following fields as needed:

Field

Description

Price As

Enter the product ID whose pricing will be copied. Use this option for one of the following reasons:

  • To assign to this product the same price sheet that is assigned to another product. These price sheets use corresponding effective dates and prices.

  • When the product is a substitute for another product. This eliminates the need to populate the product's pricing information on the Product Price Sheet Maintenance window (Files > Product > Pricing > Price Sheet).

Matrix Type

enter the product matrix type to override the customer price class used to price this product. This field is required only if the Valid Product Matrix Types control maintenance record is populated.

Without a matrix type defined, when pricing a product, the system determines the ship-to customer’s price class from either a branch-specific price class override or from the default price class override.

With a matrix type defined, the system looks at the ship-to customer’s price class/product matrix type pairings to determine a price after looking at the branch-specific override, and before using the default price class. If the product has no matrix type, or if the customer has no price class/product matrix type pairing, then the system uses the default price class to determine a price.

Serial Number Option

Do one of the following:

Commission Groups

Enter the appropriate commission group, if required.

Sell Package Quantity

Enter a number to allow only order quantities that are evenly divisible by this number.

The unit of measure associated with the sell package quantity is the base unit of measure listed in Product Maintenance.

Users assigned the SOE.PACKAGE.QTY authorization key can override this restriction.

Price Sheet

Enter a name of a price sheet to maintain different price sheets for different branches.

Discount Class

Assign price sheet discount classes to products in defined branches.

  1. Complete the following menu items as needed.

Menu Item

Description

Pricing > Price Sheet

Use to create a new effective date for a price sheet for a product, and then assign values to its cost and price bases. If you enter a product in the Price As field on the Product Price Maintenance window, pricing information will be copied from that product.

Pricing > Ranks

Displays the branch ranking information the last time the ranking process was run for a product.

Pricing > Quantity Break

Use to assign product-level quantity breaks to use for a product-specific pricing matrix cell that is assigned the P (product) matrix type.

Pricing > Branch Costs

Shows average cost, last cost, landed average cost, and landed cost for the product in the branches to which you have access.

Pricing > Additional Data

Use to assign the following settings for products on the Additional Price Maintenance window:

  • Freight factor

  • Freight charges

  • Pass-along discounts

  • Label printing specifications

Pricing > Groups

Use to assign a product to buy or sell groups.

File > Find Branch

At the prompt, enter the branch to find in the list and click OK.

File > Insert Branch

Adds the branch to the list that is selected at the prompt.

  1. Save your changes and exit the dialog box.

See Also:

Product Pricing Overview

Assigning Products to Buy or Sell Groups

Assigning Price Sheet Discount Classes to Products

Units of Measure Guidelines in Pricing