Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2
Test scenario ............................................................................................................................................. 2
Configuration ................................................................................................................................................ 3
Define Condition Exclusion Groups........................................................................................................... 3
Assign condition types to the exclusion groups ........................................................................................ 4
Maintain condition exclusion for pricing procedures ............................................................................... 5
System Demo ................................................................................................................................................ 7



Introduction
Condition Exclusion is very commonly used functionality in SAP SD area to determine best condition or
condition value in the sales order. For example, if you have multiple discount condition records setup in
the system and you want only the best condition to appear in the sales order and not all discounts, then
you can use this functionality.
Lets see how you can configure condition exclusion in SAP.
Test scenario
For test purpose, I will use below example. Lets say I have below 4 discount conditions setup in my
pricing procedure.
ZDS1 AW Discount 1
ZDS2 - AW Discount 2
ZDS3 - AW Discount 3
ZDS4 - AW Discount 4
Now the business requirement is to achieve below in the sales order creation;
1. If ZDS1 is present, then it should exclude all other discounts ZDS2, ZDS3 and ZDS3
2. Sum of ZDS2 and ZDS3 should be compared with the discount ZDS4 and only lowest sum
should be applied in to the sales order. Eg: If sum of ZDS2 and ZDS3 equals 15% and the
ZDS4 is 20%, then 15% should be applicable.
I can graphically summarize above requirements as shown below in the SAP terms. Table appear in the
top left side has more priority over bottom right side.

In SAP terms it is;
Exclusion group 1 should exclude group 2 and 3
Best (Most favorable) out of group2 and 3 is applicable
Now lets see how you can achieve this kind of a business requirement.
Configuration
Define Condition Exclusion Groups
Under this IMG path you can define the condition exclusion groups, which can be used to group your
discount condition types. As per my above example, I need to have 3 exclusion groups.
IMG Path:
->
Use button to add your new exclusion groups

Save the new exclusion groups

Assign condition types to the exclusion groups
Under this IMG node, you have to assign individual condition types in respective group
IMG Path:
->
Use button to assign the condition type in to the condition exclusion group
Based on the above figure, I will assign my discount conditions as follow;

Save the assignment

Maintain condition exclusion for pricing procedures
IMG Path:
->
Under this IMG node, you have to define the exclusion logic.

This needs to be done based on the pricing procedure. In my example, I will use my test pricing
procedure ZAW and therefore I have to define the exclusion logic for this pricing procedure.
Select the pricing procedure and double click on the Exclusion node

Click on button to define exclusion logics
First lets define the logic -> Exclusion group 1 should exclude group 2 and 3: In order to achieve
this, you need to have below entry

Here you need to select condition exclusion procedure as D. This is because you AW01 group to
exclude all conditions in the group AW02 and AW03
You have below options available there:


For the second requirement -> Best (Most favorable) out of group2 and 3 is applicable; I need to
setup below;

Save the exclusion logics

System Demo
Lets create a sales order and apply these condition types to see how the condition exclusion logic works
based on my customizing settings: We need to keep below logic in mind;
s
First I will apply ZDS2 10% (From Group AW02) to the sales order -> This condition is now
active in the sales order

Now let me put the condition ZDS1 6% to the sales order
Regardless of the value of ZDS1, system deactivate the ZDS2 in the sales order and make
ZDS1 active

This is because we have set up the exclusion logic in a such a way that, conditions out of
exclusion group AW01 to exclude all conditions in exclusion group AW02 or AW03
Now lets put ZDS4 (From exclusion group AW03) in to the sales order.
Still only ZDS1 is valid as it is in the exclusion group AW01 (Which has to most priority)

Now I will remove the ZDS1 in the sales order. After that this sales order contains only ZDS2
(From exclusion group AW02) and ZDS4 (From exclusion group AW03) -> Now the system
should apply only the lowest discount to the sales order, in this case it should be ZDS2 10%

Now lets enter ZDS3 15% and see how the system behave here;

Only ZDS4 20% is active. This is due to below reason;

Total of the exclusion group AW02 was compared with the total of the exclusion group
AW03 and the best was proposed.
o Total of the exclusion group AW02 = (ZDS2 10%) + (ZDS3 15%) => 25%
o Total of the exclusion group AW03 = (ZDS4 20%) => 20%
Therefore ZDS4 30% is active in the sales order
Now if I reduce the ZDS3 to 5%, the totals will be as below;
o Total of the exclusion group AW02 = (ZDS2 10%) + (ZDS3 5%) => 15%
o Total of the exclusion group AW03 = (ZDS4 20%) => 20%
Therefore system should now set ZDS2 and ZDS3 active in the sales order

Likewise you can do some more testing on this area to see the rest of the condition exclusion
procedures.

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