Oracle Advanced Pricing Command Center

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Advanced Pricing Command Center Overview
• Pricing User Dashboard

Advanced Pricing Command Center

Advanced Pricing Command Center Overview

The Oracle Advanced Pricing Command Center presents pricing managers and pricing users with an integrated view of the pricing setup data across entities. On the Pricing User Dashboard, use key metrics, drillable graphs, and a tag cloud to gain insight into the pricing data and to improve your operational and process efficiency. To resolve pricing issues proactively, you can take immediate action by drilling down to the underlying business processes in Oracle Advanced Pricing.

Note: You can use the Advanced Pricing Command Center only after the installation and common configurations are completed as described in My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2495053.1, Installing Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework, Release 12.2. For additional ECC overview information, see Overview of Enterprise Command Centers, Oracle E-Business Suite User's Guide.

Searching in and Refining Enterprise Command Center Dashboards

Use the sidebar to search for and refine (filter) the data on a dashboard. You can select a value or record from the Available Refinements component, or you can use the Search field to find a keyword, a value, or a specific record. When you submit a search, or select an available refinement, the search term or refinement is added to the Selected Refinements list, and all of the dashboard data is refined. You can add multiple refinements and remove any of them at any time. Use Saved Search to create and save your search. You can edit, delete, or refer to this saved search. You can also use data sets to further refine your search.

Use an asterisk (*) or a percent sign (%) to perform a partial keyword or record search that matches any string of zero or more characters. You can also use a question mark (?) to perform a partial search that matches any single character.

Additional Information: For more information about searching for and refining data in enterprise command centers, see Search in Highlights of an Enterprise Command Center, Oracle E-Business Suite User's Guide.

Pricing User Dashboard

See Advanced Pricing Command Center Overview.

Use the dashboard to:

• Manage and maintain the pricing setup data by monitoring price lists and modifiers such as discounts, promotions, and surcharges.

• Track and review ongoing promotions to prevent promotion budget overruns.

• Take timely action to ensure that the pricing data is always accurate and up-to-date.

  • Follow up on expiring price lists and modifiers.

  • Update information for price lists by drilling down to the Pricing page in Oracle Advanced Pricing.

  • Perform bulk update of price lists and modifiers based on your business requirements. For example, search for price lists for a specific customer or an item category and then update all the price lists.

• Implement informed decisions by comparing pricing headers, lines, and qualifiers.

Access the Pricing User Dashboard using the following navigation:

Oracle Pricing User responsibility > Advanced Pricing > Pricing User Dashboard

Important: The pricing data that you view on the dashboard is determined by the security mechanism that your pricing administrator has set up.

Pricing User Dashboard

The following table describes the dashboard:

Component	Description
Pricing Entities Summary (summary bar)	This summary bar shows the number of pricing entities that are active: Price Lists Modifiers: This metric includes the following list types: Deal Freight and special charge list Discount list Promotion Surcharge list Agreement Price Lists You can further refine the data by clicking a metric. When you do this, a refinement is added to the Available Refinements list and the application refines data across pricing entities.
Pricing Entities (tag cloud)	This tag cloud shows pricing entities by the number of records for each pricing entity. The entities are displayed in relative sizes by frequency of occurrence. Click a tag cloud to filter the data based on the relevant tag cloud. For example, to view data for discounts, click the Discounts tag cloud.
Pricing Entities Timeline (tabbed component)	This tab contains the following charts: Headers: By default, this stacked bar chart shows the number of pricing headers that are expiring within the predefined time buckets. Each stack represents a list type. To view the pricing headers that are recently updated, select the Updated Headers group dimension. Lines: By default, this stacked bar chart shows the number of pricing lines that are expiring within the predefined time buckets. Each stack represents a list line type. To view the pricing lines that are recently updated, select the Updated Lines group dimension.
Pricing Entity Details (tabbed component) Headers, Lines, and Qualifiers (results tables)	This tab shows the details for pricing entities based on the selected filter. In the Headers result table, you can perform the following row-level actions. Click the row-level Actions icon and select an action. To edit the details for a pricing entity using the Update Price List page, select Edit. The Edit feature is available for price lists and modifiers but not for agreement price lists. You can edit all modifier list types except freight and special charges. To change the start and end dates and update the status of a modifier, select Quick Update. In the Update List Header dialog box, update the status of the modifier and change the start and end dates. When you click Submit, a confirmation message appears and the application automatically updates the records to display real-time data on the dashboard. If you deselect the Active check box for a modifier, then that modifier becomes inactive and is no longer available on the dashboard. Note that the Quick Update icon is not available for Agreement Price List and Charges list types.
Options (table-level actions)	See Performing Actions.

Performing Actions

The following sections describe the actions that you can perform from the Options icon in the results tables.

Common Actions

The following are the common actions that are available from the Options icon in the results tables.

• Compare: Select multiple rows to compare information.

• Export: Use this action to export the search results in a comma-separated values (CSV) file.

The following table describes the actions that are available when you select the Options icon in the Headers results table. Select one or more rows and click the Options icon to act on your selection.

Headers Tab Actions

Actions for Headers

Action	Description
Web ADI: Update Modifiers	Use this action to add or modify multiple modifiers at a time using the Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator (Web ADI) integration with Microsoft Excel. See the following topics for more information: Creating Modifiers Using Web ADI Updating Modifiers Using Web ADI
Web ADI: Update Price Lists	Use this action to add or modify multiple price lists at a time using the Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator (Web ADI) integration with Microsoft Excel. See the following topics for more information: Creating Price Lists Using Web ADI Updating Price Lists Using Web ADI