2.6 Charges Maintenance

This topic describes the information to maintain the charges in Supply Chain system.

Banks are empowered to configure flexible and preferential pricing as per corporate profile and assessment. The levying of the charges can be triggered by specific events such as auto-debit, EOD, etc. Once configured, the charges would get levied for manual as well as auto processing mode for transactions.

Charge pricing is determined by configuring various pricing methods such as fixed amount, fixed percentage, slab based pricing, tier based pricing and so on. The frequency of calculation and collection, such as, daily/weekly/monthly/yearly, can also be defined for a charge. Both standard and discount type of charge is supported.

This topic contains the following subtopics:

• Charge Code
  This topic describes the information to setup the reference data for charge codes in Supply Chain Finance system.
• Charge Rule Maintenance
  This topic describes the information to setup the rules for charge pricing/charge calculation based on the bank’s requirements. Charge rule enables user to create a template for pricing method and link the same to a product/program or corporate through other submenus like charge decisioning and preferential charge pricing
• Charge Decisioning
  This topic describes the information to map the charge rule template and charge code to a specific products, program, event etc. The party, calculation, and collection frequencies for the charge can be defined as well.
• Charge Preferential Pricing
  This topic describes the information to configure the special pricing or charge application for a specific corporate.