Symptom
You want to know how the list prices in project purchase request and follow-up purchase request are determined.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Project Management work center
- Go to Projects view
- Open project ABC (ABC represents for the project ID)
- View all and navigate to Products tab - Product Overview sub-tab
- Select product DEF (DEF represents for the product ID)
- Click on Create Project Purchase Request - For Released Project Tasks
- In the new pop-up window, you want to know how the List Price here is determined
Cause
Price maintained in Project purchase request is only used to trigger approvals.
Resolution
The system will pick the price automatically in project purchase request and Purchase request according to below Hierarchy:
- First priority goes to Fixed source of supply
- Second preference goes to Purchasing Contract
- Third goes to List Price
- If none of the above are maintained, the system will determine the purchase orders which has lowest pricing for a particular service
Note 1 - If there are no open purchase orders, then system will default the net price as zero in the project purchase request.
Note 2 - System considers only open purchase orders meaning the purchase order should be in Sent or Follow Up Document status. Finished purchase orders are not considered.
Note 3 - Further there is no priority between sent or Follow Up Document status. But system finds the open purchase order which has a least price.
Note 4 - Price shall not flow from project purchase request to corresponding purchase request.
See Also
2380966 - Product Price is not Automatically Populated in new Purchase Orders
3340162 - Manual Price Entered in the Project Purchase Request Does not Transferred to Purchase Request
Keywords
price in project purchase request is not same in Purchase request; Net price in project purchase request