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Processing Order of Bundling and Aggregate Type Pricing Factors

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Because these two pricing factor types apply to multiple items within the quote, order or agreement, they are applied at a different time from other types of pricing factors:

Single, matrix-based, or script-based pricing factors. Applied when a user adds an item to the shopping cart or changes the quantity of the item in a quote, order, agreement, or component-based product.
Aggregate and bundling pricing factors. Applied when the user saves a quote, clicks Reprice All, or checks out. (Not applied if the system saves a quote—for example, because a data connection is broken.)

Siebel ePricer must apply all the single, matrix-based, or script-based type pricing factors in the model before it can apply the bundling or aggregate type factors. It must apply adjustments to individual product prices (single line items) before it can apply aggregate adjustments to groups of products (multiple line items).

In addition, Siebel ePricer must apply bundling type pricing factors before aggregate type pricing factors. Bundling type factors can change the price of a subset of products in the quote, order, or agreement, which affects the total price. For this reason, they should be applied before aggregate type pricing factors that are based on the total price.

When you are specifying the sequence of pricing factors, be sure that bundling type factors come before aggregate type factors, be sure they are executed in the following order:

Single, matrix-based, or script-based type pricing factors
Bundling type pricing factors
Aggregate type pricing factors

Use this order when you create the pricing model and assign sequence numbers to pricing factors, and when you use the Pricing Factor Flow Chart Designer to specify the sequence of pricing factors.

If a bundling type pricing factor is in a component-based product pricing model, then ePricer must complete the single pricing factor adjustments on all components in that model before it automatically executes the bundling factors within the component-based product configuration session.

NOTE:  Pricing models for component-based products can include bundling type pricing factors but cannot include aggregate type pricing factors.

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