R12.x Oracle Advanced Pricing Fundamentals

This course will be applicable for customers who have implemented Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 or Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.

Oracle Advanced Pricing provides the flexibility to meet the needs of complex pricing situations for a range of industry business requirements including: consumer goods, telecommunications, services, high technology, automotive, and aerospace/defense businesses that sell to other businesses; and, telemarketing, mail order catalog, and web store businesses that sell directly to consumers.

Learn To:

• Use multiple currency price lists that enable global pricing
• Create modifiers to set up price adjustments (for example, discounts and surcharges), benefits (for example, free goods, coupons) and freight and special charges
• Generate price books that list all orderable products and their prices
• Set up and use price lists with pricing lines to define item and/or item category prices
• Define pricing rules and price products or components at any level in either customer or product-based hierarchies

Audience

• Functional Implementer
• End Users

Course Topics Overview of Advanced Pricing

• Learning basics about Oracle Advanced Pricing
• Understanding benefits of Oracle Advanced Pricing
• Learning about features of Oracle Advanced Pricing
• Learning about the Oracle Advanced Pricing process
• Understanding the role of the pricing engine

Generic Implementation Setup

• Overview of setup steps
• Understanding Oracle Advanced Pricing concepts
• Analyzing pricing needs
• Developing pricing solutions
• Understanding customer and product hierarchies
• Establishing pricing controls

Price Lists

• Overview of price lists
• Creating price lists and price list lines
• Using price breaks
• Setting up multicurrency price lists
• Creating GSA price lists
• Creating pricing agreements
• Setting up bulk loader for price list

Formulas

• Overview of formulas
• Understanding component types
• Creating pricing formulas
• Using Get Custom Price
• Setting up profile options for formulas

Qualifiers and Qualifier Groups

• Creating list and line-level qualifiers for modifiers and price lists
• Creating qualifier groups
• Using qualifiers with product or customer hierarchies - Oracle TCA (Trading Community Architecture) Parties
• Appending qualifier groups

Modifiers

• Overview of modifiers
• Setting up modifiers in forms and HTML user interface
• Identifying types of modifier lists and lines
• Defining modifier lists and lines
• Setting up price breaks
• Using promotional limits with modifiers

Price Books

• Overview of price books
• Understanding full and delta price books
• Learning price book implementation steps
• Creating a price book
• Defining price book publishing options
• Maintaining price books
• Republishing price books

Attribute Management

• Overview of attribute management
• Defining pricing transaction entities
• Understanding and using contexts and attributes
• Linking and mapping attributes

Pricing Security

• Understanding levels of pricing security
• How to assign security rules to pricing entities
• Setting up default security rules
• Understanding relationship between pricing security and multi-organization access control (MOAC)

Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

• Using the pricing engine request viewer
• Understanding the diagnostic concurrent programs
• Learning about pricing engine messages and diagnosis

Course Objectives

• Understand how to use price books that list products and their prices for a specific customer
• Understand how to use attribute management to extend your pricing capabilities
• Learn how to set up pricing security to control users' access to pricing entities (such as price lists and modifiers) and pricing actions
• Learn about diagnostic and troubleshooting tools to help you resolve pricing issues
• Learn fundamentals of Oracle Advanced Pricing
• Understand generic implementation setup
• Set up price lists and multicurrency price lists
• Define formulas to calculate the list prices of items and discounts applied to them
• Create qualifiers and qualifier groups to determine eligibility rules
• Define modifiers to set up price adjustments (for example, discounts and surcharges), benefits (for example, free goods and coupons), and freight and special charges