Pricing events and price-change calendars with approval

Elements

The pieces this function usually contains in a large organisation:

• Draft price events
• Approval workflow before go-live
• Rollback to prior prices

Catalog items that already cover part of it

• Scheduled price change PRC-0011
• Promotion calendar DISC-0024
• Purchase approval INV-0093

What is not described

approval flow for price events.

Classification

Status

Present partially

Fit

Core candidate

Suggested module

PRC: Pricing & Tax Rules

Suggested attributes

Lite and Pro; priority Standard; always offline. Starting points only.

Cluster

Pricing, promotions and merchandising

Public excerpts

domain analysis

Archetypes and companies

Big-box, warehouse club and mass merchants; Supermarket and grocery chains; Apparel, department and specialty retail; Home improvement and building-supply retail; Fuel retail, forecourts and convenience stores.

Example companies in these archetypes: Walmart, Costco, Target, Sam's Club, BJ's Wholesale Club, Meijer, Kroger, Albertsons, Publix, Ahold Delhaize USA, H-E-B, Whole Foods Market. These come from general knowledge unless a source code is shown on the archetype page; it is not a statement that each company runs every element, and it implies no relationship.

Closest industry pages

• General merchandise and big-box stores
• Grocery and supermarkets
• Apparel and footwear retail
• Specialty retail (books, toys, sporting goods, jewelry, pets, crafts)
• Travel retail and duty-free
• Home improvement and hardware stores
• Furniture and home furnishings
• Fuel and gasoline stations
• Convenience stores

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Status is a hand review against catalog names and descriptions and can be wrong. See the method.