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Issue with Standard functionality - Weekend Rule in F&A pricing

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Former Member

‎11-03-2009 5:23 AM

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Hi All,

We have a scenario of price feeds coming from PLATTS & OPIS into SAP between Monday through Ffridays. For weekends, the weekend rule works to get the prices from Friday or the subsequent Monday depending on the rule set for customers in F&A condition records.

The problem:

We are introducing OPIS price feeds on Saturdays. These prices will be utilized only for select customers for whom there will a new weekend rule set. This weekend rule will pick Saturday prices from the table. For other customers, it was expected that weekend rule will pick prices from Friday or Monday.

While analyzing, we understand that SAP standard functionality picks up prices from the tables ir-respective of the day. If prices are not found, they look for non posted day rule or the weekend rule.

Now, since weekend rule is not working as expected, we are unable to handle the customers who do not want the saturday prices.

Any ideas or thoughts around this?

Regards

Ganesh

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Former Member

‎11-03-2009 6:03 PM

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Two ways to handle it -

1. Create a seperate quotation for this pricing - while copying it from the source you will need to copy it into two quotations for weekdays and only one type for saturday

Like Quotation - OPIS_WEEK_DAY_GAS_NYC and OPIS_ALL_DAY_NYC when you receive quotes from OPIS copy it into both for Mon-Fri. For Saturday copy only into OPI_ALL_DAY_NYC. Now use this all_day for the specific customers.

2. Create a routine for the weekend rule to specifically check for saturday or to ignore for saturday and use this routine.

Hope this helps.

Ashutosh

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Former Member

‎11-03-2009 6:03 PM

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Two ways to handle it -

1. Create a seperate quotation for this pricing - while copying it from the source you will need to copy it into two quotations for weekdays and only one type for saturday

Like Quotation - OPIS_WEEK_DAY_GAS_NYC and OPIS_ALL_DAY_NYC when you receive quotes from OPIS copy it into both for Mon-Fri. For Saturday copy only into OPI_ALL_DAY_NYC. Now use this all_day for the specific customers.

2. Create a routine for the weekend rule to specifically check for saturday or to ignore for saturday and use this routine.

Hope this helps.

Ashutosh

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‎11-04-2009 4:39 AM

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Thanks Asutosh,

Point 1 will work. We do have an issue with Point 2.

We have already created a new weekend rule to take care of Saturday quotes. But, due to standard IS OIL functionality, it looks for the prices in the table (for any day), if found picks up and proceeds. It triggers the rules only when the prices are not available in the tables.

While, we are bringing in the Saturday prices into the tables, the above Standard functionality is getting over-ridden and the rule is ignored. In fact this is a surprise to all of us and i have raised an OSS note to address this standard logic. If it is a weekend, functionality should trigger the weekend rule.