Schedule Update of Price Details for Central Purchase Contracts
Application component: Conditions
App type: Transactional
Line of business: Sourcing and Procurement
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Central Purchase Contract Processing (S/4, Ariba Ctrl Proc.)|Central Purchasing Analytics (S/4, Ariba Ctrl Proc.)
Description: With this app, you can schedule jobs to determine and update price trend and price history information of central purchase contract items.
An application to update the price trend and price history information of Central Purchase Contract Items based on the Time Dependent Conditions maintained in the Purchasing Documents
Key features:  You can use this app to do the following:   Create and schedule the job according to your requirements Schedule the update of price details for central purchase contracts. To schedule a job, from the initial screen, choose Create and select the job template Update Price Details for Central Purchase Contracts.   Choose Step 2 and enter your required scheduling options. You can either start the job immediately or you can schedule it to start later. If you schedule a job, the system carries out the job in the background. You can define whether a job should recur and accordingly set up a recurrence schedule. Once you have defined all the relevant parameters, you can check the correctness of the specified data and schedule the job. The new job appears in the Application Jobs list.   Choose Step 3. Select the load mode based on your requirements such as, Ad-hoc load, delta load or initial load and enter the required parameters for them. Parameters Definition  Initial load  The initial data is prepared using the initial load. Provide a valid date that is mandatory, and all the central purchase contracts that are valid for the mentioned date are considered for preparing the price trend and price history details of the document.   Delta load  Any changes done to the price trend and price history details of the central purchase contract after the initial load will be updated.   Ad-hoc load  Performs a job run for data at ad-hoc basis. Provide the central purchase contract item number and it determines the data accordingly.  Note   You can perform the various loads only if the central purchase contract is in active or release completed/approved status.   You cannot enter the central purchase contracts that are deleted, not released, or not approved.     Click Check  to ensure the application job is error-free.   Once all information has been entered, you can choose Schedule to schedule the job. Click Check to verify that the information is complete and the job can be scheduled, or Template to save or manage your template.   View the results of scheduled jobs in the Application Jobs list on the initial screen. You can, for example, see whether a job was carried out successfully or if it was cancelled. You can filter the list based on different criteria, such as, date, job description, and the person who created the job.   Copy an existing job to schedule a new job. If you want to schedule a job that is similar to an existing job, you can copy the existing job and then modify the copied job as required.   Restart failed jobs   Cancel the failed jobs from the list if they are no longer relevant.   Check the logs of every scheduled job directly from the Application Jobs list.   
Business roles: Configuration Expert - Business Process Configuration
Configuration Expert - Business Process Configuration : 
Performs business process configuration and other tasks required for implementing SAP solutions, such as scoping the solution, configuring the business processes, performing manual rework activities, and changing business process configuration.