What's new in Price Manager
- 29 May 2024
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What's new in Price Manager
- Updated on 29 May 2024
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Read about product and feature updates in each release.
Q2 2024
Enhanced error messages
PM-E-133
Enablement requirements
- To get this update, upgrade Price Manager. Contact your Zilliant representative to learn more.
- No additional configuration is required.
Description
Starting from this release, notebook services communicate with IQ Interface on which Price Manager is built to handle and return error messages. Such error messages are available in the dashboard execution log and in the worksheet activity log. This enhancement reduces your dependency on the Zilliant team, as it provides you with sufficient data to diagnose and resolve issues independently.
Price Manager notebook errors that can appear in IQ Interface
| Message | Related action | Cause |
|---|---|---|
| Couldn't create the workbook ID workbook. Enter a name for your workbook. | Build Workbook | You tried creating a workbook without a name. |
| Couldn't build the scenario workbook due to outdated template configuration. Rerun the Extract Template Configuration action. | Build | The template or template configuration was modified after you ran the Extract Template Configuration action. Or the worksheet names are invalid (we've already resolved this issue in the code to prevent the error). |
| The job ID job has reached the timeout limit of sec seconds. The job will continue to run on the server. | Build | The job triggered within the action has reached its timeout limit. This issue changes the scenario status to Build Timeout, but job continues: job ID. |
| Couldn't process the view name view after three attempts due to conflicts or errors. Review and resolve any issues, then retry. | Build Workbook | The app couldn't update fields and joins of the view. |
| Couldn't refresh the scenario data during the build due to reason. Actions to take. | Build | The app couldn't refresh the scenario while building the workbook. |
| Couldn't create or update the worksheet. The method request to url failed with the status status: reason. | Process Base Workbook | The app couldn't create a worksheet. |
| Couldn't set the flags to perform the action action. Review and resolve any issues, then retry. | Publish, Refresh, Build | The app couldn't set the flags to perform the needed action. |
Previous releases
Q3 2023
Enhancement to the Price List Management quick start
PM-E-120
Enablement requirements
- This feature is not automatically enabled in your environment. To get this update, request a new Price Manager install.
- Additional configuration is required. The End Date feature works for the Price List Management quick start. If a project uses custom base data tables, this feature will not function as intended.
Description
We introduce an improved method for identifying active prices in the Price List Management quick start. We added the End Date column to multiple worksheets and removed the ActiveRank and IsFuturePrice columns. The active status of a price now depends on its start and end dates. As a result, data processing is now faster, especially when you create, refresh, or publish a scenario.
Logic of the End Date column:
- You can leave the End Date field empty.
- If you add a new price with the latest start date compared to other prices, the application will automatically set its end date to 1/1/2099.
- If you add a new price with a start date that comes before the end date of a previous price, the application will automatically update the end date of the previous price to be one day before the start date of the new price.
IDs of affected worksheets:
- GCPL_MD_CountryDiscounts
- GCPL_MD_CountryFinalDiscounts
- GCPL_MD_CountryOverrides
- GCPL_MD_CountryProductCosts
- GCPL_MD_CurrencyExchange
- GCPL_MD_GlobalListPrices
- GCPL_MD_ProductCosts
- GCPL_MD_RegionDiscounts
- GCPL_MD_RegionFinalDiscounts
- GCPL_MD_RegionOverrides
- GCPL_MD_RegionProductCosts
- GCPLT_Global_List_Update
- GCPLT_Region_Price_Update
Simplified configuration of the data load
PM-E-129
Enablement requirements
- This feature is not automatically enabled in your environment. To get this update, request a new Price Manager install.
- Additional configuration is required. There is no migration script for the Source Data UI. You must set it up manually.
Description
We've streamlined the process of setting up the loading of data into your templates. Previously, this process required cumbersome, time-consuming manual mapping of worksheets and columns. With this update, we've added a user-friendly UI section in the Worksheet Properties dialog to simplify the process. This new Source Data section is intuitive and easy to navigate. As a result, the configuration is now faster, easier, and more efficient.
More information
Q1 2023
Pagination enabled for the Dashboard execution log
UI-E-98
Enablement requirements
- This feature is automatically enabled in your environment.
- No additional configuration is required.
Description
To reduce load time of the execution log that appears on the Price Manager dashboard, results are now loaded in multiple pages and support infinite scrolling.
The execution log loads results in groups of 50 actions. The most recent actions appear first. As you scroll, older actions are loaded and appear in the log.
Q2 2022
- Quick Start for Global and Country Price Lists
- Workbook scenario creation
Quick Start for Global and Country Price Lists
The Quick Start for Global and Country Price Lists streamlines price management functions for global companies. This solution offers a standardized price waterfall and a variety of global and country list management functions that ease the effort of managing diverse price lists.
With this quick start:
- Easily update global list prices as costs change, using pre-defined cost pass through strategies
- Perform currency conversions to calculate country list prices
- Make country factor adjustments to list prices
- Provide scoped user access to centralized and decentralized pricing teams in the same system of price management
You have a centralized, global view of pricing across your business. Users can work independently on different areas of responsibility, such as country and product categories.
Workbook scenario creation
You can now create scenarios from an existing workbook. This allows you to update and compare information as part of the pricing process, without modifying the data source until ready.
In the Scenarios worksheet, view previously created scenarios and navigate quickly from a hyperlinked field. When you open a specific scenario, a blue banner in the header indicates you are in a scenario workbook or worksheet.
Breadcrumbs are provided in the banner, allowing you to go back to the source workbook or worksheet. This ensures updates will be in the appropriate place and you can direct others to a designated area to test and analyze price changes.
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