Pricing Authorization Keys

The following authorization keys apply to Price Line Maintenance, Price Sheet Entry, Commission Plan Maintenance, and Pricing Management.

BR.AUTH.VIEW.PRIC

New in Release 9.0.2

Allows users to view product pricing information for their authorized branches. Authorized branches are based on the Authorizedfield inUser Accessible Branches settings in User Maintenance.

BR.COST.ACTIVITY.VIEW

Allows access to view branch cost entries in the Product Activity Log and allows access to view the Branch Costs Inquiry window. ClosedMore

Job Roles

Purchasing Agents

Levels

None

Dependencies

Additional Information

Assign this authorization key to anyone who needs to compare average cost, last, cost, landed average cost, or landed costs for products in a branch. The system maintains costs at the branch level because your buying patterns might differ across multiple branches.

For information about the product activity log, see Viewing Product Activity Logs. For information about viewing and comparing costs at each branch, see Viewing and Editing Branch Costs.

 

BUY.SELL.GROUP.MAINT

Allows access to Buy/Sell Group Maintenance to view (Level 1) and edit (Level 2) records.

COMM.PLAN.MAINT

Allows access to Commission Plan Maintenance to view (Level 1) and edit (Level 2) commission plans.

PRICE.CHANGE.OVRD

Allows access to override pricing on a product that has a restricted matrix.

Required for:Creating Individual Matrix Cells

PRICE.LINE.MAINT

Allows access to Price Line Maintenance to view and edit records. ClosedMore:

Job Roles

Purchasing agents.

Levels

Level 1 - Allows access in view-only mode.

Level 2 - Allows access to edit price lines listed in the VALID.PLINES authorization key.

Level 3 - Allows access to edit all price lines.

Required For:

Price Line Maintenance

Buy/Sell Group Maintenance

Product Maintenance

Combination Group Maintenance

PRICE.SHEET.ENTRY

Allows access to Price Sheet Entry to view and edit price sheets. ClosedMore:

Job Roles

Purchasing Agents

Levels

Level 1 - Allows access in view-only mode.

Level 2 - Allows access to edit price lines listed in the VALID.PLINES authorization key.

Level 3 - Allows access to edit all price lines.

Required For:

Price Sheet Entry

PRICE.SHEET.MAINT

Allows access to Product Price Sheet Maintenance to view or edit prices and costs. ClosedMore:

Job Roles

Purchasing agents, pricing managers.

Levels

Level 1 - Allows access in view-only mode.

Level 2 - Allows access to edit prices and costs if the basis is 0.00, or the number of days since the basis was assigned a non-null value, or an effective date exceeds the days specified in the Number Of Days After Which The Users Can Edit Old Prices control maintenance record. You cannot edit the tilde (~), default price sheets.

Level 3* - Edit any local price sheet basis that is not marked to inherit values from the default price sheet.

Level 4* - Allows access to edit all prices and costs on any price sheet except the tilde (~) price sheets. These are also called null price sheets.

Level 5* - Allows access to edit all prices and costs on price sheets without restrictions.

Additional Information:

*New or changed in Release 8.7.8.

During upgrade any users with previous Level 3 access are automatically switched to Level 5 access to ensure backward compatibility for users.

Required For:

Price Sheet Entry

Assigning Pricing Values to Product Price Sheets

Maintaining Price Sheets for Different Branches

PRICE.SHEET.UPDATE

Allows access to use the Update Prices option on the Price Sheet Entry window to display the Price Sheet Entry/Update window.

Required for:Manually Updating Prices and Printing Worksheets for Manual Updates

SELL.GROUP.REBATE.MAINT

Allows access to manage sell groups using Sell Group Rebate Maintenance. Users not assigned this authorization key cannot access this window. ClosedMore:

Job Roles

Purchasing agents, pricing managers.

Levels

Level 1 - Allows access in view-only mode.

Level 2 - Allows access to edit prices sell groups.

Additional Information

Users not assigned this authorization key cannot access this window.

Required For:

SOE.MIN.SELL.PRICE

Allows the user to set a minimum sell price basis in the Buy/Sell Group Maintenance and, if repricing, allow the user to enter a price below the minimum sell price set. ClosedMore:

The system checks the product's sell group first for a valid minimum price. If a basis field is not selected, the system defaults to the price line level.

In Sales Order Entry, if a user tries to manually override a selling price using the Unit Price field, the GP% field, the Subtotals option, or Job Bid Subtotal Maintenance the system compares the price entered to the price specified in the Minimum Sell Price basis field in Buy/Sell Group Maintenance. The user cannot change the price to less than the minimum price indicated.