R12 Oracle Advanced Pricing Fundamentals

What you will learn

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:
  • Define pricing rules and price products or components at any level in either customer or product-based hierarchies
  • 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
Audience
 End Users
Functional Implementer

Course Objectives
 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
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 about Oracle Advanced Pricing

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-based 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