Simulate pricing

About pricing simulation

This pricing simulation uses Zilliant CPQ to create a quote and configuration but with pricing coming directly from ERP. This is known as external pricing because it happens outside of CPQ.

For more information on external pricing and other pricing approaches in CPQ, see About Pricing Engine

CPQ users can create a price simulation in ERP to get the individual price of sales items and the quotation price together with pricing conditions. All of the pricing conditions, pricing procedures, and the determination of pricing procedures are maintained in the SAP ERP system.

This BAPI-based pricing simulation makes use of different BAPI’s depending on the implementation. The result of the pricing simulation is the sales item price, quotation price, pricing condition, and scheduled delivery items.

Primary simulation use cases

Following are primary simulation use cases:

Use case 1

A customer implementation with non-configurable products in a quote that is also using SAP Cloud for Customer (C4C) with a SAP C4C add-on installed on their ERP. In this use case, CPQ uses the following BAPI:

BAPI COD_SALESORDER_SIMULATE 

This BAPI supports features such as credit limit check and delivery information. However, it does not support the passing of configuration data to ERP.

Use case 2

A customer implementation that uses ERP product models in CPQ and the products/items in the quotes are a combination of configurable and non-configurable products. The configuration engine in use is SSC to render product models coming from ERP. In this case, CPQ uses the following BAPI for a price simulation:

BAPI_SALESORDER_SIMULATE 

This BAPI accepts the configuration of the configurable products and pricing conditions. However, it does not support the customer credit limit check.

Use case 3

CPQ uses its own product models for configurable products. Note that you can still use classified product and pricing conditions from ERP.

BAPI Overview

The following sections discuss the BAPIs used for price simulations.

Price Simulation Using the Cloud for Customer (C4C) Add-On

Execute a price simulation with Cloud for Customer Add-On using the following BAPI:

COD_SALESORDER_SIMULATE – BAPI 1

This BAPI cannot be used with variant configuration.

Price Simulation Using the Standard BAPI

An especially useful BAPI with the use of SSC is the following:

BAPI_SALESORDER_SIMULATE – BAPI 2

It is helpful if the customer has written custom code in pricing logic on the ERP side. Calling the pricing simulation executes the pricing logic in ERP.

This BAPI is best used together with Variant Configuration (LO_VC) or with CPQ configuration logic.

The two BAPIs introduced in this section work for pricing simulation and most of the input and output parameters are the same. However there is an exception to the following BAPI:

BAPI_SALESORDER_SIMULATE

With this BAPI, the following data points/features are not supported:

* CREDIT_LIMIT (Credit limit of an account)
* CREDIT_EXPOSURE_AMOUNT (Exposure amount of an account)
* CREDIT_EXCEEDED_AMOUNT (Exceeded amount of an account)
* NET_PRICE (Unit Price of Sales Item)
* NET_VAL_HD (Total Price of Quote)

Import parameters for external pricing

The following table lists import parameters for external pricing:

Export parameters for external pricing

The following table shows export parameters for external pricing:

Pricing simulation results

After executing the ERP pricing simulation successfully, the following column names appear on the price item table.

1. Quantity: The amount or number of sales items.
2. Net Price: The value for one quantity or unit price of the sales item in the order line item.
3. Net Value: The value for all the quantities of the sales item in the order line item.
   4.Total Price: The net price x quantity

The value could bind from SPARQL or IMC Script with custom logic applied to it. For example, when some manual prices (called shipping fee or service fee) are added to the sales item, but not defined in ERP, ERP does not contain the manual price. The total price SPARQL or IMC script can apply those manual price items fees to the sales item.

The price item table displays details of the price item/pricing conditions returned from SSC, as shown in the following table: