The Strategic Pricing Strategic Costing tier allows you to inflate, or puff, a sell basis on your current pricing structure. The Strategic Costing level is a tier below the Silver tier.
This level does not require you to upload price files and can apply to any matrix using the Enable Price Cube Factors for Non-Strategic Pricing Matrix Cells check box in the Customers pane of Strategic Pricing Maintenance. In addition, categorizing and sizing your customers is optional in Strategic Costing.
Strategic Costing uses a coreness score which provides a more precise statistical sensitivity rating that Strategic Pricing Associates calculate at the Sell Group and Product level. This coreness score is a four decimal score ranging from .0000 to 1.000, although it could be higher than 1.000. The system defaults to 1.000.
In Strategic Pricing Maintenance, you can disable the Price Cube Factors application by Sell Group, if needed. Use the Disable Price Cube Factors check box in the Sell Groups pane.
You can disable the price cube application at the individual sell matrix level, if needed. Use the Disable Price Cube Factors check box to eliminate that check on the sell matrix.
Strategic Costing uses the branch, customer, sell group, and matrix settings to control how the pricing is applied. You can use authorization parameters to control how the pricing applies by user. You can limit price changes on products that are strategically priced based on user authorization while leveraging the pricing categories, pricing sizes, core status, and sell group vendor visibility.
For more information, see Defining Strategic Pricing Authorization Levels in this document.