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Siebel ePricer

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Siebel ePricer provides a solution for creating, assessing, administering, and deploying flexible pricing strategies. Siebel ePricer consists of the following:

• A set of administration views that allow users to define pricing adjustments and the conditions under which they should be applied.
• An engine that evaluates the condition statements and determines which pricing adjustments should be applied.
• A testing area that allows assessment of the pricing adjustments.
• Integration with end-user interfaces, such as Quotes, Orders, Siebel eSales, Siebel PRM, and Siebel eConfigurator.

Siebel ePricer is composed of the following components:

• Price lists. Price lists contain base prices.
• Pricing models. Pricing models are a management tool to control a set of related pricing factors.
• Pricing factors. Pricing factors are statements that define conditions and pricing adjustments.
• Scripting. The scripting capability lets you use business services with a pricing factor to extend the pricing calculation and to access external data.
• Pricing validation. The validation facility lets you test pricing factors and the pricing model before releasing for use by end users.
• Reports. The reporting facility lets you print reports of pricing factors.
• Pricer Engine. The Pricer engine evaluates conditional statements and applies pricing adjustments.

For more information on accessing and using the State Model views, see Pricing Administration Guide.

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