Regular - Rules

Using the selected strategy and the DEFAULT_SET strategy, all the business rules relevant for the run are populated in the Rules screen. For example, if no competitor price constraints are available in the selected strategy but they are available in the DEFAULT_SET, then these constraints are borrowed from the DEFAULT_SET strategy. The specific set of rules associated with the selected strategy are always given preference and used in the run.

This stop is divided into two tabs, Rules and Price Ladder, as shown in the two figures below:

• The Rules tab contains all the rules associated with every item in the run, and the user can only view the different rules associated with items. The Rules tab contains all the rules associated with every item in the run, and the user can only view the different rules associated with items. Rules can be further divided into self-rules, inter-item rules. and inter-location rules.

  Self-rules means that the rules are applied within the group and there is no relation to another location/price zone or item. However, inter-item rules are applied between two items, and inter-location rules are applied for the same item but between two locations or price zones.

  Note:

  None of these rules can have RULE_SUBTYPE_ALLOWED_FLG as Y. That is, there cannot be multiple values for the same rule at the same criteria.
• The Price Ladder tab contains the price ladders provided for the run at the PRO_REG_PROD_PROCESSING_LVL (for example, class).

Unlike the Promotion and Markdown rules, there are two distinctions: the rules for a regular pricing optimization are all applied as a soft constraint unless configured, except for price ladder, and the rules for a regular pricing optimization have a rule priority except when it is a hard constraint. Soft constraint means that the optimization will try to satisfy the constraint, but it is allowed to violate the constraint when necessary. Rule priority gives the preference order for the constraint. That is, lower ranked rules are allowed to be violated first before a higher ranked rule is relaxed.

Figure 6-2 Regular Run - Rules

Figure 6-3 Regular Run - Price Ladders

Figure 6-4 Regular Run - Price Matrix