Dynamic Pricing Procedure Workflow

The Dynamic Pricing Procedure workflow, as shown in the following figure, provides the advanced pricing capabilities. It contains steps and subprocedures that populate the List Price, Start Price, and Net Price fields. It also calculates the monthly recurring and nonrecurring subtotals for root Customizable Products. These prices and subtotals are calculated based on information from price lists, customizable product adjustments, volume discounts, attribute adjustments, aggregate discounts, service price details, product promotions, and manual discounts.

Note: The Dynamic Pricing Procedure replaces the Pricing Procedure - Default.
The Dynamic Pricing Procedure workflow is described in the surrounding text.

Workflow Description

This workflow does the following:

  1. Checks for price list effectivity. The application will throw any error if the price list is not yet effective or has expired.

  2. Calculates the extended quantity of all component products of a CP instance. Also, it carries over some useful information from the CP root to CP components for later use.

  3. Gets the list price for each row in the row set, and appends other values from the Price List Item Buscomp to the row.

  4. Puts the CP Root Price List Item Id on each component of the CP for later use.

  5. Moves those rows with an action code that are not priced to another row set that will not be priced throughout the procedure.

  6. Gets CP Pricing Designer adjustments for components of a CP.

  7. Initializes the start price value as the list price value.

  8. Applies attribute adjustments to the start price and throws an error when an invalid combination for attribute pricing occurs.

  9. Moves service products from the row set into another row set for use in the service pricing subprocedure.

  10. Calls subprocedure Pricing Procedure - Calculate Net Price for nonservice products.

  11. Updates the covered product net price field on the service product rows in the row set.

  12. Calls subprocedure Pricing Procedure – Service to handle the service product-specific pricing for service products.

  13. Calls subprocedure Pricing Procedure - Calculate Net Price for service products.

  14. Merges the service and nonservice row sets into one row set.

  15. Establishes the NRC and MRC prices for one-time and monthly recurring price types, which will later be used for Customizable Product Rollup.

  16. Merges the priced and unpriced row sets into one row set.

  17. Spreads the discount of the root bundle products to the bundle component products.

  18. Rolls up the prices of component products to the CP root.

    The following table lists the steps in the Dynamic Pricing Procedure workflow with the business service and method that is called by each step.

    Name Type Business Service Method Sub Process Description

    Check Header Price List

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Query Transform

    Not applicable

    Determines if the header price list is expired or not yet effective.

    Raise Expired Error

    Business Service

    Pricing Manager

    Raise Price List Expired Error

    Not applicable

    Halts execution and provides an error message to the user if the header Price List is expired.

    Raise Not Effective Error

    Business Service

    Pricing Manager

    Raise Price List Not Effective Error

    Not applicable

    Halts execution and provides an error message to the user if the header Price List is not yet effective.

    Customizable Product Roll-Down

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Hierarchical Transform

    Not applicable

    Calculates the quantity of a component product of a CP instance.

    Get List Price

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Simple Look-Up Transform

    Not applicable

    Gets the list price for each row in the row set. Appends other values from the price list item Buscomp to the row.

    Get Root Price List Item Id

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Hierarchical Transform

    Not applicable

    Puts the CP root price list item ID on each component of the CP for later use.

    Split Unpriced Actions

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Split Transform

    Not applicable

    Moves those rows with an action code that are not priced to another row set that will not be priced throughout the procedure.

    Customizable Product Adjustment

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Simple Look-Up Transform

    Not applicable

    Gets CP adjustments for components of a CP.

    Start = List

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Conditional Action Transform

    Not applicable

    Initializes the start price value as the list price value.

    Matrix Adjustment

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Dynamic Lookup Transform

    Not applicable

    Applies attribute adjustments to the start price.

    Invalid Combination?

    Decision Point

    Not applicable

    Not applicable

    Not applicable

    Determines if there was an invalid combination for the attribute pricing matrix.

    Display Invalid Combination Error

    Business Service

    Dynamic Matrix Retrieval Service

    Throw Invalid Combination Error

    Not applicable

    Halts execution of procedure and throws an error when an invalid combination for attribute pricing occurs.

    Split Service Products

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Split

    Not applicable

    Moves service products from the row set into another row set for use in the service pricing subprocedure.

    Discount Non Service Products

    Sub Process

    Not applicable

    Not applicable

    Pricing Procedure – Calculate Net Price

    Not applicable

    Update Covered Product Net Prices

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Row Set Lookup Transform

    Not applicable

    Updates the covered product net price field on the service product rows in the row set.

    Price Service Products

    Sub Process

    Not applicable

    Not applicable

    Pricing Procedure – Calculate Net Price

    Prices the service product row set.

    Discount Service Products

    Sub Process

    Not applicable

    Not applicable

    Pricing Procedure – Service

    Service Pricing.

    Merge Service Products

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Merge Transform

    Not applicable

    Merges the service and nonservice row sets into one.

    Get MPT Prices

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Conditional Action Transform

    Not applicable

    Establishes the NRC and MRC prices for One-Time and Monthly Recurring price types.

    Merge Unpriced Actions

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Merge Transform

    Not applicable

    Merges the priced and unpriced row sets into one.

    Roll-down bundle prices

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Hierarchical Transform

    Not applicable

    Spreads the discount of the root bundle products to the child products.

    Customizable Product Roll-ups

    Business Service

    Row Set Transformation Toolkit Service

    Hierarchical Transform

    Not applicable

    Rolls up the prices of component products to the CP root.