The objective:

Any company to be competitive in a global trade has to implement a pricing policy based on a real and quick study.

To meet these needs efficiently, Constep has created the Costing&Pricing instrument according to its costumers needs. This instrument provides a cost and a price for spare part selling and reparation in Customer service.

What is:

The Costing & Pricing Cockpit has this purpose:

• Using data in ECC compliting with data for costs and price
• Being flexibile to make price calculations (with specific logic for spare parts)
• Adapting to new needs and new calculation parameter to meet the new selling logic quickly and efficiently
• Being easy application

Costing & Pricing Cockpit – Spare parts selling

The APP can be used in different business because is based on use of standard “transazionali” objects

• Purchase Order, contracts or delivery plan, purchase inforecord
• Series and Receipt of production
• Price condition and record price condition

To establish the price there are two phases:

• Costs calculation is made by standard transition with logic defined by the company for mark-up or specific cost

The cost calculation includes User Exit Standard (with own logic as ISTAT coefficient and exchange rate to actualize purchase price.

• Selling price calculation, using ECC standard pricing, using specific condition to memorize the selling price increase from the first cost

Costing & Pricing Cockpit – Reparation selling

This cockpit has been improved to satisfy reparation process of expensive components (it can’t be used a standard price).

The APP is made up of two phases:

• Cost calculation using the purchase order or reparation order; spare parts used for the reparation are defined by the cost made up of APP “Costing and Pricing spare parts selling”
• Price selling calculation for any customer. Spare parts prices used for the reparation are defined by the price made up of APP “Costing and Pricing spare parts selling

Which technology:

Cockpit Costing & Pricing are made by standard Dynpro classiche and ALV, and is linked to main standards components of the system as:

• Material registry
• Distinte base.
• Purchase order
• Price condition

Cost and price calculation is the “core” of this product and it can be developed on several user interface as ABAP Web Dynpro.

References:

Costing & Pricing has been implemented in AgustaWestland and Mikron.