How Enable calculates support and pricing

This article will walk you through the different pricing and support mechanisms you can use within special pricing agreements to calculate the final price to the end customer and the amount of support to be claimed back. Every contract will have a specific support mechanism defined. It is also possible to specify the end customer pricing using a customer pricing contract; learn more here, which utilizes pricing mechanisms. This article will describe:

The purpose of pricing mechanisms is to specify how the supported price to the end customer is calculated on a customer pricing contract. There are two mechanisms available to use in agreements:

• Specified contract price: You define the exact price for the products the customer will pay rather than use a price list. You can learn how to set these values here.
• Percentage discount off of a price list: Using this mechanism, you would define a specific discount for the products in the agreement, which would be used to calculate the discounted price to the end customer. This mechanism requires a trade price list, i.e., a list of the manufacturer’s product prices before any discounts have been applied. Discounts are applied as tired percentages; a walk-through of this process is available here.

The purpose of support mechanisms is to define how the distributor is compensated in eligible SPA transactions.

Support calculations are triggered based on the following actions: a SPA being approved, transaction imports, price list changes, and updating the dimension collection attribute values for products. Whenever new transactions are uploaded into Enable, each transaction line is cross-referenced with the library of SPAs to determine if it qualifies for support under a SPA, whether via an agreement reference or based on eligibility criteria.

A simple support mechanism specifies the exact amount of support to be paid per unit sold.  Here is the formula and an example of how the support is calculated:

Support = Fixed amount * Units

• Fixed amount: this is specified within the products tab of the DSC; learn more about the DSC product settings here.
• Units: this is the number of units on eligible transactions; you can learn about importing transactions here.

Allows the distributor to maintain a specific profit margin relative to the discounted price to the end customer. So the profit margin is defined, and then the support owed is calculated to ensure that the margin is met.

Support = Units * (PriceListPrice - (SupportedPrice * (1 - Margin)))

• Units: this is the number of units on eligible transactions; you can learn about importing transactions here.
• PriceListPrice: this is the price from the price list or pricing program chosen on the DSC detail tab or SPA details tabs.
• SupportedPrice: this is the price calculated from eligible transactions using the value and units set on the transaction template during upload (learn more about the transaction template here). Further information about supported price behavior can be found here.
• Margin: this is the decimal equivalent of the percentage set on the mechanism setting or included product settings within a DSC.

Using this mechanism, the support is calculated based on a percentage of a product’s price as specified on a price list.

Support = PriceListPrice * SupportedDiscount * Units

• PriceListPrice: this is the price from the price list or pricing program chosen on the DSC detail tab or SPA details tabs.
• SupportedDiscount: this is the percentage set on the DSC detail tab or SPA details tabs.
• Units: this is the number of units on eligible transactions; you can learn about importing transactions here.

By taking the difference between two price lists support can be calculated.

Support = PriceListPrice1 - PriceListPrice2

Both PriceListPrice1 and PriceListPrice2 are set on the DSC; learn more here.

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