Pricing Conditions
What is a Pricing Condition?
Medline's pricing condition is a pricing hierarchy/logic of how Medline's system selects pricing for each customer
What SAP screen could you go to when looking up a price for your customer?
ZK13
What is the name of the report that provides lines that are being held due to price discrepancies?
Price Assurance
How often are you supposed to work Price Assurance?
Customer specific
Daily or Weekly
What does GPO stand for?
Group Purchasing Organization
What does ZMCP stand for?
Manufacturer Contract Pricing
When in ZK13, if there are multiple pricing contracts loaded, how can you confirm which contract is pulling as the WC?
Winning Contact #
(WC#)
What do you use Expired contract & connection report out of insight for?
To provide your customer a list of current contracts connected to their accounts, check expiration and proactively work alongside your PCN.
Recommended to run monthly
Name 3 pricing Best Practices? What tasks do you do to maintain your PA%
Price Assurance
PCN
Pricing Tracker
Credit Tracker
Releasing PA
Holding Meetings to Review Pricing
ETC…..
Who works Medline Brand Pricing issues?
Medline Sales Team
What does ZWEB stand for?
Default/Base Pricing
What screen in SAP do you use to release PA?
ZVPAM
What is INSIGHT?
Internal Medline Hub of Reports for Pricing and Inventory. Both internal and customer friendly,
Where do you go to run a credit, and who do you submit it to?
Webfocus
&
PricingCredits@medline.com
When a customer wants a GPO to pull over a local contract, what needs to be done?
Customer needs to communicate with the vendor to expire the local, vendor needs to notify Medline and then we can rank the GPO as the winning contract.
What are pricing condition codes for non-contracted pricing? Name at least 3.
ZWEB
ZCEP
ZHST
ZNAP
ZSPA
ZMGC
ZAGM
Why can you not show a customer ZK13?
Mbase and Cbase cost is listed
What is Price Parity and how can you verify?
Pricing that is aligned between multiple accounts.
You can run a Price Parity report from Insight to see pricing that does not align between multiple sold-tos
Who do you reach out to within Medline for discrepant lines that need resolving on your price assurance?
Distributed Pricing Div 17
(distributedpricing@medline.com)
Sales for MB
How long after reaching out to DP, does it take for your ticket to close due to vendor non-response?
14 Days
After your ticket closes you need to work with Customer and GPO rep
What is the hierarchy ranking for pricing conditions? (NON Z list)
Local
GPO
Non-Contract
What SAP transaction can you download a contract and item details?
Viztex/Agreement workbench
Which Insight reports do you use to maintain your PVA Pricing Metrics?
PVA Price Assurance Summary
Price Assurance Performance Summary (Monthly /Weekly)
When getting a credit denial email what is the first step you take upon receiving?
How can you decipher a local, gpo or non contract price?
Condition Hierarchy. (Z)
Also Accept: SAP (vendor contract and GPO contract data)