Commodity Management Solutions from SAP

Configurable User Interface for Pricing - Overview

SAP Enhancement Package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0
July, 2013
Business Context and Benefits

Business Context

 Pricing for commodities has the following attributes:

– Very complex
– Depends on large amounts of data and settings
– Involves a wide range of roles
 Target audience: Sales, purchasing, and risk managers

Benefits

 Quickly and efficiently create and change the pricing data.

 Easily get an overview of all pricing data in a business document.
 Use profiles to tailor the user interface to the specific requirements of different roles.
 Drill down to the required level of information.
 Adapt the user interface for various business use cases.

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View Concept – Classical Pricing Views

Starting Point:

 Single screen for a large amount of

formula details
 Difficult to navigate
 Not optimized for fast data entry
 User interface is not customizable

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View Concept – Predefined Views on Pricing Data

Three standard views are available

 Pricing Elements: Table
 Pricing Elements: Tree
 CPE Formulas and Terms

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View Concept – Non-Predefined Views on Pricing Data

Additional views can be added, using the following non-predefined view

types:
 Configured View (see screenshot)
 Custom View

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View Concept – Pricing Elements: Table

Optimized for the

following:

 Get an essential overview of

all item conditions.
 Retrieve detailed information
about a condition, if needed.
 Use it as a fast entry of
classical conditions.

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View Concept – Pricing Elements: Tree

Optimized for the

following:

 Quick navigation to relevant

parts of all item pricing
elements.
 Choose the required detail
level of information.
 Access all pricing elements
directly, including the
following:
– Commodity pricing
engine (CPE)
– Configurable parameters
and formulas (CPF)
– Classical conditions and
subtotals

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View Concept – CPE Formulas and Terms

Optimized for the

following:

 Focus on CPE formula

and term data.
 Display CPE formula and
terms of multiple CPE
conditions at once.
 Use it as a fast entry of
CPE data.

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View Enhancement Concept – Non-Predefined Views

Configured View

 Can be used for fast entry and display of several conditions, for example configurable
parameters and formulas (CPF).
 Can be used to group related conditions on one view (for example, Bonus and Penalties).
 Layout of displayed data is defined as table format.
 Displayed columns and content of pricing elements can be customized (no coding needed).
 Multiple view instances with the possibility of independent configuration.

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View Enhancement Concept – Non-Predefined Views

Custom View

 View can be implemented without modification by customers or partners to enhance the UI

for specific use cases.
 Allows arbitrary layout, that is possible with SAP GUI.
 SAP delivers business logic that can be easily reused for custom views.
 Multiple view instances are possible.

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UI Customizing – Pricing View Definition

Characteristics

 Define additional pricing views

– Custom view
– Configured view (see screenshot)
– Standard view (only defined by SAP)
 SAP delivers the previously
introduced views as standard:
– Pricing Elements: Table
– Pricing Elements: Tree
– CPE Formulas and Terms

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UI Customizing – Profiles

Characteristics

 Collection of Customizing decisions made for pricing UI:

– Determine the visibility of a view.
– Define the field behavior in a pricing view (for example, set a certain field to be hidden or display only,
when a certain profile is assigned).
– Configure the displayed texts for all pricing element tree nodes in the Pricing Elements: Tree view
 All of the mentioned decisions can be made without using profiles, which are then valid for
all users.
 To make these decisions dependent on specific criteria (for example, an assigned user role),
profiles must be used.
 These profiles should not be confused with user profiles that are already available.

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 Fact Sheet: Configurable UI for Pricing

“So what’s it about?“

As the requirements of the different roles can vary, the user

interface must be designed to be flexible and configurable to
fulfill these needs.

Profiles ensure a very high granularity in order to tailor

configurations to a specific role. In addition, the flexibility is
guaranteed by providing further views. This could be done by
either implementing custom logic, or configuring subsets of
displayed data.

Key Pain Points Addressed

 Limited possibilities to provide a suitable user interface for

specific user roles

Facts & Figures: Key Product Features

Sales Manager, Purchase Manager, Risk • Use different views to cover all business use cases efficiently.
• Role: Manager
• Use profiles to tailor the user interface to the specific
Commodity Sales, Commodity Procurement requirements of different roles.
• Target Segment:
• Add new views or adapt the user interface to various business
SAP Enhancement Package 7 for SAP ERP use cases.
• Planned Availability: 6.0 • Profit from the improved navigation between views.
• Use the fast entry of data for CPE and CPF.

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