Find the first set of important scoping questions in the scoping element General Business Data  Products  Materials.

Question:             Materials GTIN – Would you like to allow the creation of materials with duplicate GTIN(Global Trade Item Number)?

The GTIN is a globally unique identification number. Nevertheless, a duplicated GTIN is useful if there are configurable products in your product portfolio.

Question:             Product Sales area ACL – Would you like to control the product access based on blocked sales data?

This Business option allows you to control the data access to a product also based on blocked sales data in product master. Without this business option, products with blocked sales data can be accessed by all users. Selecting this business option enables the usage of sales area-based access restriction rules for the product master regardless of whether the products sales data is blocked.

Question:             Special Characters in Material ID – Do you want to create the Material ID with special characters ?

The Special Characters in Material ID business option allows you to create a Material ID with characters such as ., +, =, space, #, @, %, (, ), &, < or >. To create an ID with _, -, /, :, and \, selecting this option is not mandatory. It is also allowed to use language related special characters such as ä, ö, ü for the german language.

Another set of important scoping questions – especially for internal pricing – can be found in the scoping element General Business Data  Product and Service Pricing  Sales Price and Discount Lists.

Question:             Base Price Lists – You can maintain base price lists.

The Base Price Lists business option allows you to maintain base prices for your products and services. This price is the initial price of a product before additional surcharges and discounts are added.

Question:             Base Price Lists – Do you maintain price lists for customer groups?

This Business Option allows you to maintain price list for customized customer groups. This option streamlines special pricing strategy to define prices on these criteria.

Question:             Base Price Lists – Do you want to maintain price lists for account hierarchies?

Maintain your prices for all accounts within an account hierarchy.

Question:             Base Price Lists – Do you maintain base price lists for product categories?

The Base Price Lists by Product Category business option is a list of regular prices for a particular category of products. In contrast to Base Price Lists, it is possible to release multiple price lists for different product categories. This helps you to structure the price lists and reduce the number of entries in each price list.

Question:             Discount Lists – Do you want to maintain discount lists for account hierarchies?

Maintain discounts for all accounts within an account hierarchy.

Question:             Discount Lists – Do you maintain general discounts on customer level?

The Customer Discount Lists business option is used to define general discounts for a list of customers.

Question:             Discount Lists – Do you maintain general discounts on customer group level?

The Customer Group Discount Lists business option is used to define discounts at customer group level.

Question:             Discount Lists – Do you maintain customer discounts on product level?

The Product Discount Lists business option allows you to maintain discounted prices on various products for a certain customer.

Question:             Discount Lists – Do you maintain customer discounts on product category level?

The Product Category Discount Lists business option allows you to create a list of discounts for product categories that are assigned to a particular customer.

Question:             Specific Price Lists – Do you maintain price lists for customers?

The Customer Specific Price Lists business option allows you to maintain a list of prices for various products as defined for a particular customer.

Question:             Specific Price Lists – Do you maintain price lists on distribution chain level?

The Distribution Chain Specific Price Lists business option allows you to create lists of product prices that relate to a specific distribution chain. This allows you to group price lists according to sales organizations and distribution channels.

Question:             Specific Price Lists – Do you maintain price lists on distribution chain level for product categories?

The Distribution Chain Specific Price Lists by Product Category business option allows you to create a list of prices for particular product categories as applicable to a certain distribution chain. In contrast to Distribution Chain Specific Price Lists, it is possible to release multiple price lists for the same distribution chain but for different product categories. This helps you to structure the price lists and reduce the number of entries in a given price list.

A second set of important scoping questions for internal pricing can be found in the scoping element General Business Data  Product and Service Pricing  Communication for Product and Service Pricing.

Question:             Price and Discount Lists – You can print price and discount lists.

A Price and Discount List document is used to display details about selected products, prices, and discounts. Each document automatically includes essential information about the price or discount list, such as the name, description, validity, status, and currency. You can use this standard template to provide price list and discount list information to your customers.

A last set of important scoping questions – especially in handling with products in Sales Orders – can be found in the scoping element Sales  New Business  Sales Orders.

Question:             Enable or Disable text item types – Would you like to enable text item types for Sales Order?

This Business Option allows the Business User to add text item types in a Sales Order.

Question:             Product List for Sales Orders – Do you want to allow adding products only from Product List?

Add products from product List only