Thursday, November 11, 2010

Order Management Concepts - Basic Vs Advanced Pricing

Oracle offers two levels of pricing functionality: Basic and the separate enhanced product, Advanced Pricing. While both levels of functionality share some similarities, the licensed Advanced Pricing application extends the ability to adjust pricing.

Price Lists:
The creation of price lists within both levels carries many of the same elements. Both are able to add items to, and copy price lists. However, as you implement Advanced Pricing, the ability to use Qualifiers, Pricing Attributes, and Secondary Price Lists becomes extended from only allowing the default or one context element in Basic, to an unlimited number of values being available.

Agreements:
The use of Agreements is the same for both Basic and Advanced Pricing. They are both able to identify customer items, create price lists, use versioning, and define price breaks.

Formulas:
Both Basic and Advanced Pricing allow Static Formulas, while only Advanced Pricing allows the use of Dynamic Formulas.

Modifiers:
While both basic and Advanced Pricing have the ability to execute Discounts, Surcharges, Freight Charges, and point-based price breaks, Advanced Pricing extends this functionality greatly. Advanced Pricing also allows price modifications via Coupons, Terms Substitution, Promotions, Item Upgrades, and Other Items discounts. Additionally, Advanced Pricing
allows you to implement adjustment functionality that will change the list price used for the adjustment; affect the timing of when the adjusting activity will occur; and enable you to define rules affecting which adjustments may be used at the same time. In Advanced Pricing,
you can also flag discounts as exclusive, which implies that only that discount will be eligible and no others.

Note: Additionally, Advanced Pricing enables you to derive prices from external sources. For further information on the Advanced Pricing functionality, please refer to the Advanced Pricing User and Implementation Manuals.

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