Pricing Rate-Based Contract Lines

This section discusses how to define rate sets, define rate set targets, and define rate plans.

Pages Used to Price Rate-Based Contracts

Page Name Definition Name Usage

Rate Sets Page

PC_RATE_DTL

Define the source criteria that is used to select the transactions from feeder systems to which the defined rate pricing structure will be applied.

Rate Sets - Target Page

PC_RATE_DTL_LN

Define target data for rate set source rows.

Rate Plans Page

PC_RATE_PLANS

Create any combination of cost, billing, and revenue rate sets together to perform complex pricing scenarios.

Rate Sets Page

Use the Rate Sets page (PC_RATE_DTL) to define the source criteria that is used to select the transactions from feeder systems to which the defined rate pricing structure will be applied.

Navigation:

  • Customer Contracts, and then Contracts Center, and then Definitions, and then Setup PC Rate Sets CA

  • Setup Financials/Supply Chain, and then Product Related, and then Contracts, and then Templates, and then Setup PC Rate Sets CA

  • Setup Financials/Supply Chain, and then Product Related, and then Project Costing, and then Pricing Structure, and then Rate Sets

Field or Control Description

Business Unit

Displays the PeopleSoft Project Costing business unit. This is a required field and must be entered when creating a new rate set.

Rate Set Type

Displays the type of rate set. Values include:

  • Standard: When defining a rate set, select Standard for the rate set type to make this rate set generally available for pricing all contract types.

  • Contract: When defining a rate set, select Contract to limit the rate set for use in pricing a specific contract line.

Rate Definition Type

Identify the types of rates in a rate set by entering the rate definition type. Rate definition types indicate to the system to use the rate set to create indirect costs from direct costs, price transactions for billing, or price transactions for revenue. Rate definition types are used to stack rate sets for more complex pricing scenarios. Select from one of the following rate definition types:

  • Billing: Select to calculate billable rows to pass to PeopleSoft Billing for invoice generation.

  • Cost: Select for rates that are used to track and calculate contract, project, and indirect costs. You must define a costing rate set to calculate indirect costs for cost-plus contract lines.

  • Cost/Billing: Select to create cost and billing target rows.

  • Revenue: Select to calculate revenue recognition rows to pass to PeopleSoft General Ledger. This rate definition type is only available if the Separate Billing and Revenue check box is selected on the Installation Options - Contracts page. This option is only used with cost-plus contact lines.

Note: The rate definition type can be changed after saving the page. However, the target analysis type must adhere to the selected rate definition type.

See PeopleSoft Project Costing: Rate Sets Page.

Rate Sets - Target Page

Use the Rate Sets - Target page (PC_RATE_DTL_LN) to define target data for rate set source rows, and access the Rate Variance History page to define variance rates for costing rate sets.

Navigation:

  • Click the Target link on a source row on the Rate Sets page.

  • Setup Financials/Supply Chain, Product Related, Contracts, Templates, Rate Sets, Target

  • Setup Financials/Supply Chain, and then Product Related, and then Project Costing, and then Pricing Structure, and then Rate Sets, and then Target

The Rate Sets - Target page enables you to enter the target definitions for the source rows that you defined on the Rate Sets page. One source transaction row can have multiple target definition rows associated with it to enable you to track costs, indirect costs, billable rows, and so on depending on the type of rate set that you are defining.

See PeopleSoft Project Costing: Rate Sets - Target Page.

Rate Plans Page

Use the Rate Plans page (PC_RATE_PLANS) to create any combination of cost, billing, and revenue rate sets together to perform complex pricing scenarios for your cost-plus contract lines.

Revenue rate sets can only be defined if the Separate Billing and Revenue check box on the Installation Options-Contracts page is selected.

Navigation:

  • Setup Financials/Supply Chain, and then Product Related, and then Project Costing, and then Pricing Structure, and then Rate Plans

  • Project Costing, and then Project Costing Center, and then Configuration Pricing Structure, and then Rate Plans

See PeopleSoft Project Costing: Rate Plans Page.