What's the difference between a price break and a price tier?

Both price breaks and price tiers are used to identify price reductions being asked for by the buyer or being offered by the supplier.

The main difference is that price tiers are available with all negotiation outcomes, but price breaks are only available with documents having a purchase agreement negotiation outcome. Also, price breaks can be cumulative across the life of the agreement.

Additionally, price breaks can base price reductions on Ship-to Organization, Location, Quantity, and Start and End dates. Price tier reductions are based only on Quantity.

For quantity based price tiers, only the price tier in effect for the awarded line is passed to the purchasing application. For price breaks, the information on the entire price break structure applicable to the awarded line is passed to the purchasing application.