SAP Note 26231 - Discounts on characteristic level (VA00, VA01)

Symptom:

In object dependencies, a price and a discount are set up as actions on characteristic level. The price was given condition type VA00. The discount was given condition type VA01. When a sales order is created and this characteristic is chosen, the price VA00 and discount VA01 are taken.

However, discount VA01 affects not just the VA00 condition for the same characteristic, but also the entire price which was accumulated up to the corresponding level of the pricing procedure.

Cause and prerequisites

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Solution
In Release 2.2:
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Define different condition types for each characteristic and add further levels to the pricing procedure.
Example: 50 VA00 ( Variant condition for characteristic A )
51 VA01 (Discount for characteristic A, i.e. ref.step 50)
60 VB00 (Variant condition for characteristic B)
61 VB01 (Discount for characteristic B, i.e. ref.step 60)

As of Release 3.0:
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Explode BOM for the configurable material in the sales order. If a component results for every characteristic/characteristic value, and this component is an independent item in the sales order, then material price PR00 can also be used for the component instead of pricing it via VA00. A 'normal' material discount (instead of discount VA01) can then also be used for this item.

Additional key words

KMAT, configuration, variant pricing, pricing