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Managing GSA pricing involves:

• Creating GSA prices: You can sell to GSA customers using the same price lists you use for commercial customers. Define GSA customers, negotiate prices for GSA customers, and associate discounts with any of your standard price lists. GSA discounts are fixed-price discounts, so price increases for commercial customers do not affect GSA prices. See: Defining GSA Pricing Structure.

• Managing GSA violations: As you enter orders, you can see whether the customer is eligible for GSA discounts. You have the option to hold orders for non-GSA customers when a GSA violation occurs. You can also manually release orders from GSA Violation hold. See: Releasing Orders from GSA Violation Hold.

• Disabling GSA pricing: You can disable individual discounts, customers, or bill-to sites without affected existing orders. You can also allow non-GSA customers to have discounts equal to or greater than those of GSA customers. See: Disabling GSA Pricing.

• Preventing pricing below an allowable price: You can create discounts fixing the lowest allowable price for an item, and disallow entry of any discounts below the base level. See: Preventing Pricing Below a Lowest Allowable Price.

Note: You cannot use GSA pricing in conjunction with group discounts by item category or customer class. However, if OE: Verify GSA Violations is set to Yes and you define an item category or customer class discount that violates GSA rules, any order line that uses such a discount will be placed on hold in accordance with standard functionality.

• Using GSA pricing features in non-GSA business environments: Even if you have no GSA customers, you may have a similar business need. You can use GSA pricing functionality to provide preferred customers with the lowest possible selling prices and to define industry or contractually fixed prices to a subset of your customer base without having to enter each customer on each discount. See: Pricing in Non-GSA Environments.