Pricing Comparison

This ERD (see the following figure) illustrates the pricing comparison feature. A competitor's customer is viewed as an opportunity and by creating a quote using that competitor's price list the size of the opportunity can be quantified. Comparison quotes are generated using products and services from the internal price list that are similar to the competitor's offerings, to calculate the savings the customer could achieve by switching from the competitor.

Products and services provided by companies have complex pricing structures including tier-based pricing. Pricing also varies by region, payment method, service type, credit risk, and so on. The tier prices are associated with the attributes of the product or service that is provided.

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The following table lists the entities in this ERD and their corresponding tables.

Entity	Table
Object Class	S_VOD, S_VOD_VER
Object Class Extended Attribute	S_XA_ATTR
Opportunity	S_OPPTY
Price List	S_PRI_LST
Price List Item	S_PRI_LST_ITEM
Pricing Matrix	S_PRI_MTRX
Pricing Matrix Item	S_PRI_MTRX_ITEM
Product Extended Attribute	S_PROD_INT_XA
Product or Service	S_PROD_INT
Product or Service Structure	S_PROD_ITEM
Quote	S_DOC_QUOTE
Quote Item	S_QUOTE_ITEM
Quote Item Extended Attribute	S_QUOTE_ITEM_XA
Tier Price Value	S_VDISCNT_ITEM
Tier Pricing	S_VOL_DISCNT