Materials pricing rules

You add materials pricing rules to a customer agreement price schedule in the Customer Agreements application. These pricing rules are used to create billing transactions for materials used on a ticket or work order to which the price schedule is applied.

Specify pricing rules on the Materials subtab of the Pricing Rules subtab, on the Price Schedules tab. Default calculation percentages are added to reported costs for stocked and non-stocked items. Non-stocked items do not have an associated item number. You can enter a positive or negative percentage value to apply a markup or discount to the item cost or price. You can enter a positive or negative percentage value to apply a markup or discount to the material cost. You specify the price book to use for the item list price.

You can also specify a markup or a discount value to be applied to certain commodities. This markup or discount is applied if the item used contains that commodity or commodity group. If a zero value is specified for a markup, the cost of the item or material is charged as the price. If a zero value is specified as the discount, the list price is charged as the price. If the No Charge check box is selected, the price for the item is zero.

Example of multiple price books

Silver Star Management (SSM) provides building services to several customers in the Boston area. To be competitive and to offer incentives to their customers, SSM offers three levels of pricing for the items that are used for repairs, and three pricing levels for their repair services. SSM has these prices published in six separate price books. They have Gold Pricing for services and items, Silver Pricing for services and items, and Bronze Pricing for services and items. The Gold Pricing is offered to customers who have the most business with SSM.
The item Gold Pricing price book contains material items. There are two approved revisions of this price book: Revision 0, which is effective from 1/1/09 thru 7/15/09, and Revision 1, which is effective from 7/16/09 and has no ending date. The item Gold Billing price book is referenced by customer agreement price schedules when calculating a price for material used on a work order, or when the material item is used in a billing schedule. The revision that is used to determine the price is determined as follows:
Planned Material: Find the approved, revised, or expired revision where the reported date on the work order is within the range of the price book effective date and end date. If no revision is found, the price is zero.
Actual Material: Find the approved, revised, or expired revision where the actual date is within the range of the price book effective date and end date. If no revision is found, the price is zero.
Returned Material: Find the approved, revised, or expired revision where the original issue date is within the range of the price book effective date and end date. If no revision is found, the price is zero.


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