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• Create and modify new custom pricing strategies

  • Use pre-defined variables, product attributes and custom lookups in arithmetic and logical blocks

  • Create reusable lookup blocks for standard Pricefx master data like Product Extension, Company Parameters and Competition data.

  • Create a new custom pricing strategy based on a pre-defined template (Cost+ Percentage/Absolute) or a completely customized one

• Live preview of product’s calculated price

  • Show all calculated elements and variables which contribute to the total price (ie. custom lookups, pre-defined variables,etc)

  • Recalculate in real-time

• Multiple strategy selections are possible (ie. Add, modification and deletion)

• Ability to save your pricing strategy configurations to partition

  • Save pricing rules into Company Parameter tables

  • Deploy generated Groovy library

• Load configuration from partition

Functionality

The use of Strategy Workflow Designer and pricing workflow configuration is performed in three steps:

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Here the user can design his pricing workflow strategy using a drag & drop interface leveraging visual framework while seeing the impact of the changes in the Live Preview.

visual preview.

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Design Features:

• Create, rename and delete a strategyworkflow

  • Create a strategy from a template (Cost+ Absolute/Percentage/Selling PointQuote, Pricelist, Rebate, etc. )

  • Create a completely custom strategy

• Modify workflow strategies

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  • Add product attributes

  • Add PSP’s default variables (Product Cost, Base Price, …)

  • Add logic (when-then-else, and/or blocks, comparison block)

  • Add values (text, number, true/false)

  • Add arithmetic operations (+, -, ×, ÷)

  • Add custom lookups

• Define and manage custom lookups

  • Based on a product extension (similar to PXLookup function in formula language)

  • Based on a price parameter (similar to VLookup)

  • Based on competition data

    • Add filters using comparison of the data row’s attributes to any value or supported variable

    • Select highest/lowest/average competitor price

• • approval steps

  • Add unique Approvers

  • Add conditional tests

  • Add functions (Is Null, As Number, etc.)

• Preview of the strategies and custom lookups

  • After selecting a product, the user can see:

    • the result price of the strategy

    • the values of the variables and custom lookups used in the calculation

  • The user can see a preview of the generated code

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Preview

In this step, the user defines priorities of the strategies, basically populating the GlobalStrategySelection PP table.

Select Features:

• Add, modify or delete rules

• Highlighted changes for easier orientation and instant visual feedback

• Auto-populating dimensions with valid combinations to prevent duplicate rules

will identify which workflows to deploy and review the primary tables that will be updated and their corresponding values.

Preview Features:

• Selection of workflows to deploy

• Review of ApprovalWorkflowSetup entries

• Review of Approvers entries

• Review of ApprovalCondition entries

Deploy

In the final step, the user can hit the Deploy button in order to deploy everything the workflow to the partition .

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and update the corresponding logics and tables.

Deploy Features:

• Single button to deploy everything

• Output with the deployment progress

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