Knowledge Management

Question:
Hi MM support group,
I need your help / ideas on this.
PO supports quantity scale pricing, but it works only within the PO you are currently in. In others words, if you have say,
from qty 1 $ 50
from qty 20 $ 45
from qty 40 $ 40
This scale does not take into account the purchase quantity from earlier POs. My customer wants earlier purchase quantity to be factored into the discount scale. How to do this in PO? any idea?
Customer does not want End -of -period rebate settlement, wants this to be a rolling discount across purchase orders.
Thanks in advance.
nmysore
Answer:
Hi,
As you are aware that PO is the spot purchasing document which details the procurement transaction mutually entered into and between the seller and buyer at a certain period of time and since this is the SPOT purchasing transaction, any previous debit or credit incurred or enjoyed in another procurements shall not be taken into consideration in this particular PO. Therefore, except for using the Rebate Agreement, I do not think that you can find out another alternative solution to meet your specific business requirement. Perhaps, you can contact directly with SAP AG to check if this sort of business scenario will be taken into their consideration for the next release of SAP.
Cheers,
HT