Item attribute – based pricing 

Objective: The objective of this document is to provide ability to price an item on the sales order based on certain item additional attributes.

This will be useful in cases where the business has a lot of SKU’s and it will be difficult to maintain price list for each individual items.

Business use cases:

ABC Technologies is a semiconductor chip manufacturer. They have over 30,000 make to stock SKU’s and in addition to that they make custom parts on request which they sell to the customers.

The SKU’s which share a similar set of characteristics such as operating temperature, frequency, package size etc have the same price. It will be difficult for the business to maintain the price at each SKU level to price the sales order.

Requirement:

Create a base price for items which will be automatically adjusted based on certain item attributes which are defined at the item level.

Implementation:- 

Create Item Extended attributes to capture the attributes required for pricing, Here we are looking at a few attributes such as Operating Temperature and Frequency range

Navigate to Manage Item Classes and create an Attribute Group and Assign the context segments

Create a Page and assign the attribute group to the page

Assign this page to the Functional Item Pages to the Functional Area – Pricing

Add these new attributes in Matrix class in Pricing (Pricing Administration-> Manage Matrix Class)

Create new condition columns and associate the pricing contexts created in the previous steps

Create Price Adjustment Matrix on the price list by selecting the required Item extended flexfields

Add the required price adjustment such as discount percentage, markup amount, override price as required. In this particular example, I am overriding the price

Edit the pricing algorithms by creating a revision to allow the usage of item extended attributes and publish the revision

Manage Pricing Algorithms -> Set Initial Values -> Set Initial Values

Create an Item and assign values to the extended flexfields

Enter Sales order and check that the pricing is reflecting the prices setup

Conclusion:-