Enhanced Effectivity Date Support in Pricing Engine

Oracle CPQ 26A introduces support for automatic end-dating when new pricing is defined. This feature adds Adjust End Dates Automatically and Start Dates Required options for Price Models, Price Agreements, Attribute-based Charge templates, and Scripting Price Model templates.

• When Adjust End Dates Automatically is enabled, you only need to enter the start dates to manage the effectivity dates of charges. End dates will be automatically adjusted based on the start date and will be read-only.
• When Start Dates Required is enabled, start dates must be entered when adding new charges. You can't enable this option unless start dates are set for all existing charges.

This feature provides the following customer benefits:

• Reduces the effort required by Pricing Administrators to manage effective dates.
• Ensures effective date accuracy and validity automatically to avoid inaccuracies and ambiguity.
• Supports efficient handling of frequent and high volume pricing updates needed in dynamic pricing environments.

Steps to Enable and Configure

Refer to the Oracle CPQ Administration Online Help once this feature is generally available in Oracle CPQ Update 26A.