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What is SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing

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1 Service Guide for Pricing Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.1 What is Pricing service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2 What's New for Pricing Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3 Initial Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Enable the Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.4 Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.5 Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.6 Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.7 Monitoring and Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2 Service Guide for Variant Configuration Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.1 What is Variant Configuration service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.2 What's New for Variant Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.3 Initial Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Enable the Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.4 Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.5 Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.6 Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
2.7 Monitoring and Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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1 Service Guide for Pricing Service

This service guide contains all the information required by you to decide on the relevance of the Pricing service
for your application or scenario. It also contains information about how to set up, consume, and run the Pricing
service.

1.1 What is Pricing service

Calculate prices for configurable and non-configurable products.

The Pricing service lets your sales teams, customers, and channel partners price your products accurately and
efficiently. Leverage your knowledge of SAP sales pricing to model your pricing rules and use them everywhere.
That allows smooth end-to-end data flow between your cloud applications and your SAP back end. Relevant
pricing data is replicated from SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA in the SAP Cloud to allow the Pricing service to use
that data independently of the back-end load or availability.

Environment

This service runs in the Cloud Foundry.

Contract Type

This service requires a subscription to use it. Not offered via Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement.

Features

Document pricing Price calculation is based on pricing procedures and supports: Price, discount and
surcharge calculation. Calculation rules. Currency and quantity conversion. Scale
determination with different scale types. Manual overwriting for header and item
conditions.

Stateless pricing Same functionality as for document pricing above, but no manual changes possible for
conditions, only automatic determination. In contrast to document pricing, there is only
one single API that gets all the needed input and does the price calculation.

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Pricing The Pricing service provides persistence for pricing runtime data. Every change in the
persistence pricing results during the pricing process is saved in the database. Only applicable to
document pricing, not to stateless pricing.

Condition Use condition technique in your SAP back end to maintain the pricing rules. Condition
technique determination for standard and custom defined condition types.

External Item conditions with data source other than condition technique are considered as
Conditions external conditions. They require input via API from an external data source. Supported
calculation types: Percentage, Fixed Amount, Quantity.

Prices for Pricing via so called variant conditions for simple and multi-level configurable products.
configurable
items

Taxes Simple, condition-based tax calculation like MWST is possible. However, multiple tax
levels, tax exemption licenses (for example for Italy and France) or tax calculation via
external tax engine are not supported.

Pricing APIs Retrieve pricing procedure details, such as dynamic pricing attributes or manual
condition types, that are needed to do the actual pricing calls. Calculate a price via single
call to stateless pricing or via consecutive calls to document and item pricing APIs.

Extensibility A custom web service can be specified that is called by the pricing engine for each
custom routine. The customer is responsible for correctness and potential performance
impact of calls to his web service implementation.

Support Content

● More information about configuration and pricing services

● Differences between Pricing service and SAP ERP sales pricing
● SDI installation quick guides
● Troubleshooting data replication issues

1.2 What's New for Pricing Service

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Pricing Exten­ Cloud Copy The new service endpoint POST /api/v1/pricing/ Rec­ New 2021-1
Serv­ sion Foun­ API documents/{documentId}/items/{sourceItemId}/ om­ 0-20
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Devel­ pricing document and trigger repricing. The old source item d
op­ id and the desired new target item id must be specified. The
ment new target external id can be specified. A list of subitems can
Effi- be provided to copy them with the new target item ids. All
ciency customers should use this feature.

See: Development Guide for SAP Variant Configuration and

Pricing Services

See also: API Definition

Pricing Exten­ Cloud Limits Lower and upper limits can be maintained in the back end for Info New 2021-1
Serv­ sion Foun­ for condition records and for condition types. Those used not to only 0-20
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Devel­ ual service only accepts values within the given limits and raises
op­ Condi­ a corresponding warning message when the given value had
ment tions to be corrected to be within the allowed range.
Effi-
ciency

Pricing Exten­ Cloud Rate- High load on one tenant used to slow down other tenants by Re­ Chang 2021-1
Serv­ sion Foun­ limita­ occupying shared resources. This issue was corrected by bet­ quired ed 0-20
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Devel­ tion. The maximum number of parallel calls is restricted to
op­ 250 calls per tenant. HTTP error code 429 is returned when
ment the rate limit is reached. This change of behaviour impacts all
Effi- users.
ciency
See: Development Guide for SAP Variant Configuration and
Pricing Services

Pricing Exten­ Cloud Input The input validation for the pricing attribute names used to Re­ Chang 2021-1
Serv­ sion Foun­ Valida­ have a length restriction of maximum 20 characters. Now, quired ed 0-20
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Devel­ for This change of behaviour impacts all users.
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nent bility ment Title Description Action Type as of

Pricing Exten­ Cloud Input Input validation used not to reject condition rates like Info Chang 2021-1
Serv­ sion Foun­ Valida­ 999999999999999.00, which led to inactive pricing condi­ only ed 0-20
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Devel­ for only accepts condition rates with up to 11 digits before the
op­ Condi­ decimal point, and condition values with up to 13 digits before
ment tion the decimal point. Both, rates and values, with up to 5 deci­
Effi- Rates mal places.
ciency and
Values

Pricing Exten­ Cloud Hier­ Pricing service used to generate an exception when a condi­ Info Chang 2021-1
Serv­ sion Foun­ archi­ tion access used a hierarchical access type in combination only ed 0-20
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Pricing Exten­ Cloud Input When changing the calculation type of a manual condition to Info Chang 2021-1
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Pricing Exten­ Cloud Proc­ Now there is an indicator for the condition types of SAP S/ New 2021-
Serv­ sion Foun­ ess 4HANA to control the processing of conditions with value 07-28
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If the indicator is not set for the condition type and the
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condition value is zero, the condition is not considered in the
ment Are
exclusion logic and the price condition becomes inactive (if
Effi- Equal
not a group condition).
ciency to
Zero If the indicator is set for the condition type and the condition
value is zero, the condition is considered in the exclusion logic
and the price condition remains active.

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Com­ Envi­ Avail­
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nent bility ment Title Description Action Type as of

Pricing Exten­ Cloud Reject Pricing service used to process pricing procedures that where Chang 2021-
Serv­ sion Foun­ Pricing not added to the administration UI for replication. That led to ed 07-28
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Devel­ dures that were difficult to analyze. Pricing service now rejects calls
op­ That with such pricing procedures.
ment Were
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Pricing Exten­ Cloud Copy The new service endpoint POST /api/v1/pricing/ New 2021-
Serv­ sion Foun­ Docu­ 07-28
documents/{documentId}/copy is used to copy a pricing
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Devel­ API and new item ids during copying.
op­
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Pricing Services and API Definition
Effi-
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Pricing Exten­ Cloud Up­ Service endpoint PATCH /api/v1/pricing/documents/ Chang 2021-
Serv­ sion Foun­ date ed 07-28
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Effi-
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Pricing Exten­ Cloud Modify The new service endpoint PUT /api/v1/pricing/ New 2021-
Serv­ sion Foun­ Item 07-28
documents/{documentId}/items is used to efficiently
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Devel­ chy for a caller to keep track of all manual changes to reapply
op­ API them after modifying an item structure, for example, after
ment product configuration changes.
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nent bility ment Title Description Action Type as of

Pricing Exten­ Cloud Heade Now the platform converts all header keys to lower-case to Chang 2021-
Serv­ sion Foun­ r Pa­ comply with the HTTP/2 standard. This also applies to all ed 04-21
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Pricing Exten­ Cloud New In addition to the already available stateless pricing API, a New 2021-
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Devel­ Pricing changes to a price document, e.g. adding items without un­
op­ APIs necessarily re-determining pricing conditions for already ex­
ment isting items, and they allow to overwrite manual conditions at
Effi- the document header and item level.
ciency
See: Development Guide for SAP Variant Configuration and
Pricing Services

See: API Definition

Pricing Exten­ Cloud New A set of new APIs was introduced to allow reading the set­ New 2021-
Serv­ sion Foun­ Pricing tings of a pricing procedure and its condition types. This 04-21
ice Suite - dry Cus­ helps the calling application to display the pricing results and
Devel­ tomiz­ to decide which condition can be overwritten manually and in
op­ ing which way, e.g. at document header or item level.
ment APIs
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Effi-
Pricing Services
ciency
See: API Definition

Pricing Exten­ Cloud Exten­ Certain pricing extensions can now overwrite the statistical New 2021-
Serv­ sion Foun­ sion flag and inactive flag of a price condition. They can also over­ 04-21
ice Suite - dry Con­ write an item’s subtotals and set an exclusion indicator that
Devel­ cept – can be read by following custom requirements.
op­ New
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nent bility ment Title Description Action Type as of

Pricing Exten­ Cloud State­ The inactive flag for statistical items used to be W. Boolean Chang 2021-
Serv­ sion Foun­ less field statistical is used for that purpose too. Now, we prioritize ed 04-21
ice Suite - dry Pricing other reasons for being inactive different from W. For statisti­
Devel­ API – cal items, you can also see other reasons such as condition
op­ Return exclusion, subsequent price, etc.
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Pricing Exten­ Cloud State­ The new item input structure duration was introduced with New 2021-
Serv­ sion Foun­ less the fields startDate and endDate to allow the pricing engine to 01-20
ice Suite - dry Pricing calculate the duration factor for calculation types M-Monthly
Devel­ API – Price, N-Yearly Price, O-Daily Price, and P-Weekly Price. This
op­ Con­ factor is applied to the relevant condition rate to calculate the
ment tract condition value for the given duration. The new response field
Effi- Start durationFactor is returned accordingly for relevant condition
ciency and types in pricing results.
End
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Date

Pricing Exten­ Cloud Exten­ Custom pricing attributes, that are not part of a condition ta­ Chang 2021-
Serv­ sion Foun­ sion ble, used not to be forwarded to the pricing extension imple­ ed 01-20
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Devel­ cept – See: Extension Guide for SAP Variant Configuration and Pric­
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nent bility ment Title Description Action Type as of

Pricing Exten­ Cloud Cus­ The customizing cache used not to be cleared after one hour Chang 2021-
Serv­ sion Foun­ tomiz­ like the other cache regions. This issue has been corrected. ed 01-20
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Devel­ Cache
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Pricing Exten­ Cloud State­ For condition types that were not marked as Variant Chang 2021-
Serv­ sion Foun­ less Condition in back-end customizing, Pricing service used to re­ ed 01-20
ice Suite - dry Pricing turn variant conditions instead of skipping the accesses to
Devel­ API – condition tables that contain variant condition keys. This is­
op­ Con­ sue has been corrected.
ment sider
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Condi­
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Flag

Related Information

2020 What's New for Pricing Service (Archived)

2019 What's New for Pricing Service (Archived)
2018 What's New for Pricing Service (Archived)

1.3 Initial Setup

Introduction

You can get started with the Pricing service using the standard procedures for SAP Business Technology
Platform Cloud Foundry environment.

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1.3.1 Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure that you have all required versions of the software you are integrating. For that
please refer to SAP Note 2711932 .

To exchange data between cloud solution SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing and the licensee’s local on-
premise SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA back end, SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing also comprises the SDI
Data Provisioning Agent, which is part of SAP HANA smart data integration. The SDI Data Provisioning Agent is
an on-premise application that is to be installed and operated locally in the customer’s on-premise landscape.

For data exchange with SAP ERP systems, using a third-party runtime database obtained from SAP, such as
Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle DB, certain restrictions apply according to the applicable on-premise license
agreements for the third-party runtime databases. One such restriction is that the licensee may not access
these databases directly via systems or technologies that have not been licensed specifically for use with such
runtime database. Therefore, the corresponding SDI Data Provisioning Agent Adapters provided with SAP
Variant Configuration and Pricing may not be used to directly access, or replicate data from, such third-party
runtime databases licensed from SAP.

For third-party database licenses not obtained from SAP, please refer to the respective license agreements on
the available options for data exchange via direct database accesses.

For more information about interoperability and maintenance rules for the Data Provisioning Agent, see SAP
Note 2546811

Preliminary tasks or checks in the system:

● Get your SAP Business Technology Platform welcome email.

● Logon to the cloud cockpit and find the global account mentioned in the welcome email.
● Add users and change global account description.

When your organization signs a contract for SAP Business Technology Platform services, an e-mail is sent to
the IT contact person specified in the contract. The e-mail message contains the link to log on to the system,
the SAP Cloud Identity credentials, and the user ID for the specified user. These credentials can also be used
for sites such as the SAP Store , SAP Community , Software Downloads and the SAP Support Portal
for example, to download Data Provisioning Agent.

You will find different information in that e-mail depending on the licensed product.

For example:

● 3 x SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing (8006356)

If you have licensed 3 blocks of 10GB each of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing for api-based
integrations, to build your own applications or integrations with configuration and pricing services. With
only 1 block of 10 GB, one test tenant is included. To obtain one test and one productive tenant, 2 blocks
are required. Each additional block after the initial 2 blocks includes the option to use the additional block
for one additional test tenant for the cloud services or to expand the size of the productive tenant.
● 1 x Cloud T&D f SAP Variant Config a Pricing (8005772)
If you have licensed 1 partner test & demo tenant of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing for api-based
integrations, to build your own applications or integrations with configuration and pricing services. Partner
companies can also combine this license with partner test & demo licenses for SAP Commerce Cloud and
SAP CPQ to test and demo the corresponding standard integrations.
● 100 x SAP CPQ, professional edition (8007056)

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 If you have licensed 100 users of SAP CPQ, professional edition.This license does not only include one
productive and one non-productive tenant for SAP CPQ, but also for SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing
to use the standard integration.
● 1 x SAP CPQ, prof edition, test tenant (8008154)
If you have licensed 1 additional test tenant for SAP CPQ, professional edition, it also includes an additional
test tenant for configuration and pricing services to use the standard integration.
● 1 x SAP CPQ, pro ed Commerce, orders, access (8008503)
If you have licensed 1 block of 50.000 orders of CPQ add-on for SAP Commerce Cloud. (For detailed
definition of metric orders, please refer to SAP Price List. In short: Orders is defined as the number of sales
and service orders processed in a contract year by a customer and its affiliates through the cloud service.)
This license includes one productive and one non-productive tenant for SAP Variant Configuration and
Pricing to use the standard integration. The corresponding SAP Commerce Cloud license is required as
prerequisite. If additional test tenants of configuration and pricing services are needed for the SAP
Commerce Cloud integration, they must be licensed via 8008154. See above.
● 1 x SAP CPQ, pro ed Commerce, GMV, access (8008501)
If you have licensed 1 block of 12.000.000 Gross Merchandize Value (GMV) of CPQ add-on for SAP
Commerce Cloud. (For detailed definition of metric GMV, please refer to the SAP Price List. In short: GMV
is defined as the customer’s and its affiliates’ total annual sales gross revenue for products or services that
are purchased through cloud service platforms by end users in a given contract year.) This license includes
one productive and one non-productive tenant for SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing to use the
standard integration. The corresponding SAP Commerce Cloud license is required as prerequisite. If
additional test tenants of configuration and pricing services are needed for the SAP Commerce Cloud
integration, they must be licensed via 8008154. See above.

You need one tenant of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing for every back-end client that will be connected.
SAP Business Technology Platform comes with two environments, the Neo environment, and the Cloud
Foundry environment, sometimes also called Multi Environment. SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing is
based on the Cloud Foundry environment. Each contract provides one global account with the entitlements
needed to use SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing. With it you will get entitlements for the Variant
Configuration service, Pricing service and SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing SaaS application for data
replication and administration.

You might want to add further users as members to that global account, or change the global account
description as described in Add Global Account Members

Related Information

Getting Started with an Enterprise Account in the Cloud Foundry Environment

Setting Up a Global Account
Add Members to Your Global Account
Change the Display Name of Your Global Account

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1.3.2 Enable the Service

To know the steps that you need to follow to enable the Pricing service, please read the Administration Guide
for SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing.

 Note

For the license material SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing (8006356) and the service plan default, we
will report at the subaccount level the peak usage of gigabytes runtime memory per month. To view that
data, please open your global account on SAP Business Technology Platform and open the menu Usage
Analytics. In the section Service Usage please choose service SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing. Please
also choose the subaccount and period of interest. Please note: Choosing the subaccount All Subaccounts
lets cloud cockpit aggregate all the subaccounts’ peak usages. This number does not have any meaning. In
cloud cockpit we cannot show you the peak usage per global account.

1.4 Development

To know how to adjust the application to consume the Pricing service please read the Development Guide for
SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing Services, and do the tutorial Create an SAPUI5 Application for SAP
Variant Configuration and Pricing .

For an overview of the extension concept of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing See the Extension Guide for
SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing

For a detailed overview of supported pricing routines (user exits) see Supported Standard Pricing Exits.

1.5 Administration

Some initial configuration steps may be necessary to enable the service initially. See Initial Setup [page 10]

For all the information about the administration of the service see the Administration Guide for SAP Variant
Configuration and Pricing.

1.6 Security

To know the settings and configurations necessary to operate the Pricing service in a secure manner, please
read the Security Guide for SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing. Please also refer to the security guide for
auditing and logging information.

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1.7 Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Please refer to the Administration Guide for information about Monitoring of data replication.

E-mail notifications are supported via the Alert Notification service (separate license needed for that
service).
The following alert types are available:

● SAP HANA smart data integration Data Provisioning Agent status: an alert is sent if your SAP HANA
smart data integration Data Provisioning Agent reports an error. This alert is not sent immediately, but
after a second check is done, some minutes later, to prevent false alerts caused by brief connection issues.
● Replication failure: an alert is sent if there is an error during the replication of a table.
● Get contacted by SAP Support: SAP Support will send you an alert if you need to take an action, e.g., in
case a new SDI Agent version needs to be installed.

See the section Receiving Alerts of the Administration Guide.

Service Availability

To be notified of maintenance events of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing, visit the Cloud Availability
Center and use the Cloud System Notification Subscriptions .

You can subscribe to be informed of general Cloud platform issues .

Please also refer to Cloud Availability Center and Cloud System Notification Subscriptions .

Engine Traces

In case of unexpected results in configuration or pricing, a special logging can be enabled to see how the
corresponding engine calculated those values. See Engine Trace.

Reporting an incident

You can report an incident or error through the SAP Support Portal .

Please open an incident using component LOD-CPS. We recommend including the following information:

● Landscape information (Europe (Frankfurt, AWS-EU10), US (Virginia, AWS-US10), Singapore (AWS-AP11))

● The URL of the service or UI page where the incident or error occurs
● The steps or clicks used to replicate the error
● Exact input and output data of the service call
● Screen grabs, videos, or the code being inputted

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2 Service Guide for Variant Configuration
Service

This service guide contains all the information required by you to decide on the relevance of the Variant
Configuration service for your application or scenario. It also contains information about how to set up,
consume, and run the Variant Configuration service.

2.1 What is Variant Configuration service

Configure your SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA products interactively in the cloud.

Build applications to configure your products accurately and efficiently. Use the product modelling
environment in your back end to define the product model and to generate a knowledge base version. A
knowledge base version is a collection of all relevant product model data such as materials, characteristics, and
dependencies for a given validity date. Knowledge base is replicated in the SAP Cloud to allow configuration
service to use that data independently of the back-end load or availability.

Environment

This service runs in the Cloud Foundry.

Contract type

This service requires a subscription to use it. Not offered via Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement.

Features

Simple configuration The user assigns values to characteristics of a product. All the dependencies and
constraints from the configuration model are considered.

Multi-level A complex structured configuration consists of a hierarchy of products. The root

configuration product may contain one or more sub-products which are configurable. The user
assigns values to characteristics of these sub-products.

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External The Variant Configuration service provides required information to enable process
configuration integration in the back end.

Advanced Variant The Variant Configuration service can forward calls to the SAP S/4HANA for advanced
Configuration variant configuration engine in the back end, bypassing the configuration engine of
the service.

Configuration The Variant Configuration service provides persistence for configuration runtime data.
persistence Every change in the configuration during the configuration process is saved in the
database.

Master Data APIs Get a list of knowledge bases header data, e.g. for a given product. Get all master data
details for a given knowledge base id. Get maintained translations in specified
language(s).

APIs optimized for UI Create an initial configuration with default values. Update characteristic values.
consumption Update configuration context (input for reference characteristics). Get details of a
configuration previously created. Delete a configuration.

Configuration APIs Retrieve external configuration with all information from a previously created
for data exchange configuration, to enable the exchange of configuration data with the order fulfillment
functions in the SAP back-end system. Create a new configuration from external
configuration.

Extensibility A custom web service can be specified that is called by the configuration engine for
each variant function (not for pfunctions). The customer is responsible for the
correctness; and potential performance impact of calls to his variant function
implementation.

Support Content

● More information about configuration and pricing services

● SDI installation quick guides
● Troubleshooting data replication issues

2.2 What's New for Variant Configuration

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2021

Tech­
nical
Com­ Envi­ Avail­
po­ Capa­ ron­ able
nent bility ment Title Description Action Type as of

Variant Exten­ Cloud Ad­ Since S/4HANA on-premise 2021 and S/4HANA Cloud 2108, Rec­ New 2021-1
Config- sion Foun­ vance when using SAP S/4HANA for advanced variant configuration om­ 0-20
dry
uration Suite - d Var­ (AVC), it is possible to let the Variant Configuration service mende
Devel­ iant forward the calls to the AVC configuration engine in the back d
op­ Con­ end instead of processing the configuration rules with the
ment figura­ service’s engine. With that, the new AVC syntax and the AVC’s
Effi- tion pre- and post-processing BAdIs are supported. Advanced
ciency knowledge base generation must be used to transfer the
product model to the Variant Configuration service. All cus­
tomers should use this feature.

See: Administration Guide for SAP Variant Configuration and

Pricing

Variant Exten­ Cloud Up­ When uploading knowledge bases via the administration UI to Rec­ New 2021-1
Config- sion Foun­ load a tenant where data replication is not yet in place, Variant om­ 0-20
dry
uration Suite - knowl­ Configuration service cannot map the SAP-internal unit of mende
Devel­ edge measures found in the knowledge base to ISO codes that are d
op­ bases usually returned. Therefore, for uploaded knowledge bases,
ment – ISO SAP-internal unit of measures are returned. As that can lead
Effi- code to problems in calling applications, an ISO code mapping per
ciency map­ uploaded knowledge base is now be provided. All customers
ping should use this feature.

See SAP Note 3092589

Variant Exten­ Cloud Cach­ A knowledge base with variant tables used to be loaded into Re­ Chang 2021-1
Config- sion Foun­ ing of the cache even if not all the variant tables were replicated yet. quired ed 0-20
dry
uration Suite - Knowl­ That led to inconsistent data in the cache, errors, or unex­
Devel­ edge pected configuration results. This issue has been corrected
op­ Bases for the delta replication. Now, instead of loading a faulty
ment Being knowledge base, the error message The knowledge base <id>
Effi- Repli­ is locked due to running replication started at <timestamp>
ciency cated UTC is returned. This change of behaviour impacts all users.

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Tech­
nical
Com­ Envi­ Avail­
po­ Capa­ ron­ able
nent bility ment Title Description Action Type as of

Variant Exten­ Cloud Rate- High load on one tenant used to slow down other tenants by Re­ Chang 2021-1
Config- sion Foun­ limita­ occupying shared resources. This issue was corrected by bet­ quired ed 0-20
dry
uration Suite - tion ter handling of the resources and by introducing a rate limita­
Devel­ tion. The maximum number of parallel calls is restricted to
op­ 250 calls per tenant. HTTP error code 429 is returned when
ment the rate limit is reached. This change of behaviour impacts all
Effi- users.
ciency
See: Development Guide for SAP Variant Configuration and
Pricing Services

Variant Exten­ Cloud Input The length and number of decimal places in the input for nu­ Re­ Chang 2021-1
Config- sion Foun­ Valida­ meric characteristics are checked against the characteristic quired ed 0-20
dry
uration Suite - tion definition. This used not to happen for string characteristics,
Devel­ for which led to problems when transferring the configuration re­
op­ String sults to sales documents in the back end. This issue has been
ment Char­ corrected and input for string characteristics is now also re­
Effi- acter­ jected when it exceeds the defined maximal length. This
ciency istics change of behaviour impacts all users.

Variant Exten­ Cloud Valida­ Information, warning, and error messages raised by the con­ Info An­ 2021-1
Config- sion Foun­ tion figuration engine or during the input validation have been re­ only nounc 0-20
dry
uration Suite - and worked and published in the development guide to allow the ement
Devel­ Engine service consumers to translate them before showing them to
op­ Mes­ end users.
ment sages
See: Development Guide for SAP Variant Configuration and
Effi-
Pricing Services
ciency

Variant Exten­ Cloud Con­ Knowledge bases that were uploaded from the file system via New 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ figura­ the administration UI to non-productive tenants can now be 07-28
dry
uration Suite - tions used to create configurations.
Devel­ API –
This allows easy testing or demoing of product models with­
op­ Proc­
out having data replication already setup.
ment ess
Effi- Man­ See: Administration Guide for SAP Variant Configuration and
ciency ually Pricing
Up­
loaded
Knowl­
edge
Bases

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nical
Com­ Envi­ Avail­
po­ Capa­ ron­ able
nent bility ment Title Description Action Type as of

Variant Exten­ Cloud Con­ When creating new configurations, knowledge bases that Chang 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ figura­ were created via the Solution Modeling Environment were ed 07-28
dry
uration Suite - tions skipped during knowledge base finding or rejected when
Devel­ API – specified explicitly. Now Solution knowledge bases can only
op­ Skip be processed by the SAP Solution Sales Configurator.
ment Solu­
Effi- tion
ciency Knowl­
edge
Bases

Variant Exten­ Cloud Con­ In configuration results, some characteristics that had no Chang 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ figura­ possible values (unconstrained domain) used to be missing in ed 07-28
dry
uration Suite - tions the product’s characteristicSpecifics list. This issue has been
Devel­ API – corrected.
op­ Return
See: API Definition
ment Also
Effi- Char­
ciency acter­
istics
With­
out
Values

Variant Exten­ Cloud Con­ The configuration results of the characteristic possibleValues Chang 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ figura­ used to return an empty list when: ed 07-28
dry
uration Suite - tions
1. The characteristic’s dynamic value domain was empty,
Devel­ API –
and no value was set.
op­ Distin­
2. The characteristic’s static value domain was empty, and
ment guish
an arbitrary value was set.
Effi- Empty
ciency Do­ Now to distinguish those two, in the latter case, an empty
main value with interval type 0 is returned.
and
See: Development Guide for SAP Variant Configuration and
Un­
Pricing Services
con­
straint
Do­
main

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Tech­
nical
Com­ Envi­ Avail­
po­ Capa­ ron­ able
nent bility ment Title Description Action Type as of

Variant Exten­ Cloud Heade Now the platform converts all header keys to lower-case to Chang 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ r Pa­ comply with the HTTP/2 standard. This also applies to all ed 04-21
uration Suite - dry rame­ endpoints of Variant Configuration service. For example, etag
Devel­ ter used to be returned in camel case: ETag
op­ Keys
See: API Definition
ment Are
Effi- Con­
ciency verted
to
Lower
Case

Variant Exten­ Cloud Knowl­ Details for knowledge bases that were created via the New 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ edge Solution Modeling Environment, can now be read via the end­ 04-21
uration Suite - dry Base point GET /api/v2/knowledgebases/{kbId}, using the
Devel­ API – new characteristic type adt (abstract data type). No details
op­ Read are returned about which kind of classes or materials can be
ment Solu­ referenced by an ADT characteristic. Such knowledge bases
Effi- tion can only be processed by the SAP Solution Sales
ciency Knowl­ Configurator.
edge
See: API Definition
Base

Variant Exten­ Cloud Knowl­ There is a new endpoint introduced to read knowledge-base New 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ edge metrics like number of classes, characteristics, etc. 04-21
uration Suite - dry Base
See: API Definition
Devel­ API –
op­ Get
ment Met­
Effi- rics
ciency

Variant Exten­ Cloud Con­ The PATCH requests used to be rejected if the configuration’s Chang 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ figura­ etag in the session was not current after the caller made ed 04-21
uration Suite - dry tions changes to the configuration in a different session. This issue
Devel­ API – has been corrected by reloading the latest configuration into
op­ More the current session before processing the changes.
ment Resil­
See: API Definition
Effi- ient
ciency Ses­
sion
Han­
dling

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nical
Com­ Envi­ Avail­
po­ Capa­ ron­ able
nent bility ment Title Description Action Type as of

Variant Exten­ Cloud Con­ The PATCH requests for characteristics with an empty list of Chang 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ figura­ values do not trigger any action in the configuration engine. ed 04-21
uration Suite - dry tions We cannot reject such calls for backwards compatibility. Etag
Devel­ API – used to be increased even if nothing was changed. This issue
op­ Ignore has been corrected.
ment Empty
See: API Definition
Effi- List of
ciency Char­
acter­
istic
Values
in
PATCH
Re­
quest

Variant Exten­ Cloud Con­ The PATCH requests for single-value characteristics that tried Chang 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ figura­ to change multiple values used to be ignored by the configu- ed 04-21
uration Suite - dry tions ration engine. Now such requests are rejected with a valida­
Devel­ API – tion error.
op­ Reject
See: API Definition
ment Multi­
Effi- ple
ciency Values
for a
Single-
Value
Char­
acter­
istic

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Tech­
nical
Com­ Envi­ Avail­
po­ Capa­ ron­ able
nent bility ment Title Description Action Type as of

Variant Exten­ Cloud Con­ When creating a new configuration, productKey and date had New 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ figura­ to be provided to allow the configuration engine to determine 01-20
uration Suite - dry tions the appropriate knowledge base version. Now, instead of the
Devel­ API – date, the knowledge base id can be provided via the new input
op­ Create parameter kbId to specify exactly which knowledge base ver­
ment Con­ sion shall be used.
Effi- figura­
See: API Definition
ciency tion
for
Speci­
fied
Knowl­
edge
Base

Variant Exten­ Cloud Exter­ Variant condition keys and factors have always been returned New 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ nal via dedicated result structure on the item level. This allows 01-20
uration Suite - dry Con­ easy mapping to the corresponding input structure of Pricing
Devel­ figura­ service. For easy mapping to e.g. the S/4HANA solution
op­ tions quote inbound API, variant condition factors are now also re­
ment API – turned for the values of each price characteristic (those with
Effi- Return reference to SDCOM-VKOND).
ciency Var­
See: API Definition
iant
Condi­
tion
Fac­
tors
for
Price
Char­
acter­
istic
Values

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nical
Com­ Envi­ Avail­
po­ Capa­ ron­ able
nent bility ment Title Description Action Type as of

Variant Exten­ Cloud Knowl­ The knowledge base header details now also contain the New 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ edge fields plant and bomApplication. It is also possible to search 01-20
uration Suite - dry base for knowledge bases via plant.
Devel­ API –
Note: Plant is only part of the data model in the most recent
op­ New
back-end releases with implemented BAdI
ment Heade
KBSCHEMA_CURT.
Effi- r
ciency Fields See: API Definition
Plant
and
BomA
pplicat
ion

Variant Exten­ Cloud Knowl­ Knowledge base header details now also contain the field New 2021-
Config- sion Foun­ edge type. The following values are possible: 01-20
uration Suite - dry Base variantConfiguration,
Devel­ API – advancedVariantConfiguration, and
op­ New solutionConfiguration. It is also possible to search for
ment Heade knowledge bases via type.
Effi- r Field
See: API Definition
ciency Type

Related Information

2020 What's New for Variant Configuration (Archived)

2019 What's New for Variant Configuration (Archived)
2018 What's New for Variant Configuration (Archived)

2.3 Initial Setup

Introduction

You can get started with the Variant Configuration service using the standard procedures for the SAP Business
Technology Platform Cloud Foundry environment.

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2.3.1 Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure that you have all required versions of the software you are integrating. For that
please refer to SAP Note 2711932 .

To exchange data between cloud solution SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing and the licensee’s local on-
premise SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA back end, SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing also comprises the SDI
Data Provisioning Agent, which is part of SAP HANA smart data integration. The SDI Data Provisioning Agent is
an on-premise application that is to be installed and operated locally in the customer’s on-premise landscape.

For data exchange with SAP ERP systems, using a third-party runtime database obtained from SAP, such as
Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle DB. Certain restrictions apply according to the applicable on-premise license
agreements for the third-party runtime databases. One such restriction is that the licensee may not access
these databases directly via systems or technologies that have not been licensed specifically for use with such
runtime database. Therefore, the corresponding SDI Data Provisioning Agent Adapters provided with SAP
Variant Configuration and Pricing may not be used to directly access, or replicate data from, such third-party
runtime databases licensed from SAP.

For third-party database licenses not obtained from SAP, please refer to the respective license agreements on
the available options for data exchange via direct database accesses.

For more information about interoperability and maintenance rules for the Data Provisioning Agent, see SAP
Note 2546811 .

Preliminary tasks or checks in the system:

● Get your SAP Business Technology Platform welcome email.

● Logon to SAP Business Technology Platform cockpit and find the global account mentioned in the welcome
email.
● Add users and change global account description.

When your organization signs a contract for SAP Business Technology Platform services, an e-mail is sent to
the IT contact person specified in the contract. The e-mail message contains the link to log on to the system,
the SAP Cloud Identity credentials, and the user ID for the specified user. These credentials can also be used
for sites such as the SAP Store , SAP Community , Software Downloads and the SAP Support Portal
for example, to download Data Provisioning Agent.

You will find different information in that e-mail depending on the licensed product.

For example:

● 3 x SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing (8006356)

If you have licensed 3 blocks of 10GB each of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing for api-based
integrations, to build your own applications or integrations with configuration and pricing services. With
only 1 block of 10 GB, one test tenant is included. To obtain one test and one productive tenant, 2 blocks
are required. Each additional block after the initial 2 blocks includes the option to use the additional block
for one additional test tenant for the cloud services or to expand the size of the productive tenant.
● 1 x Cloud T&D f SAP Variant Config a Pricing (8005772)
If you have licensed 1 partner test & demo tenant of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing for api-based
integrations, to build your own applications or integrations with configuration and pricing services. Partner
companies can also combine this license with partner test & demo licenses for SAP Commerce Cloud and
SAP CPQ to test and demo the corresponding standard integrations.
● 100 x SAP CPQ, professional edition (8007056)

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 If you have licensed 100 users of SAP CPQ, professional edition. This license does not only include one
productive and one non-productive tenant for SAP CPQ, but also for SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing
to use the standard integration.
● 1 x SAP CPQ, prof edition, test tenant (8008154)
If you have licensed 1 additional test tenant for SAP CPQ, professional edition, it also includes an additional
test tenant for configuration and pricing services to use the standard integration.
● 1 x SAP CPQ, pro ed Commerce, orders, access (8008503)
If you have licensed 1 block of 50.000 orders of CPQ add-on for SAP Commerce Cloud. (For detailed
definition of metric ‘orders’, please refer to SAP Price List. In short: Orders is defined as the number of
sales and service orders processed in a contract year by a customer and its affiliates through the cloud
service.) This license includes one productive and one non-productive tenant for SAP Variant Configuration
and Pricing to use the standard integration. Corresponding SAP Commerce Cloud license is required as
prerequisite. If additional test tenants of configuration and pricing services are needed for the SAP
Commerce Cloud integration, they must be licensed via 8008154. See above.
● 1 x SAP CPQ, pro ed Commerce, GMV, access (8008501)
If you have licensed 1 block of 12.000.000 Gross Merchandize Value (GMV) of CPQ add-on for SAP
Commerce Cloud. (For detailed definition of metric GMV, please refer to the SAP Price List. In short: GMV
is defined as the customer’s and its affiliates’ total annual sales gross revenue for products or services that
are purchased through cloud service platforms by end users in a given contract year.) This license includes
one productive and one non-productive tenant for SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing to use the
standard integration. The Corresponding SAP Commerce Cloud license is required as prerequisite. If
additional test tenants of configuration and pricing services are needed for the SAP Commerce Cloud
integration, they must be licensed via 8008154 . See above.

You need one tenant of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing for every back-end client that will be connected.
SAP Business Technology Platform comes with two environments, the Neo environment, and the Cloud
Foundry environment. SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing is based on the Cloud Foundry environment. Each
contract provides one global account, with the entitlements needed to use SAP Variant Configuration and
Pricing. With it you will get entitlements for the Variant Configuration service, Pricing service and SAP Variant
Configuration and Pricing SaaS application for data replication and administration.

You might want to add further users as members to that global account, or change the global account
description as described in Add Members to Your Global Account.

Related Information

Administration and Operations

Managing Global Accounts and Subaccounts Using the Cockpit
Change the Display Name of Your Global Account

2.3.2 Enable the Service

To know the steps that you need to follow to enable the Variant Configuration service, please read the
Administration Guide for SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing.

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  Note

For the license material SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing (8006356) and the service plan default, we
will report at the subaccount level the peak usage of gigabytes runtime memory per month. To view that
data, please open your global account on SAP Business Technology Platform and open the menu Usage
Analytics. In the section Service Usage please choose service SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing. Please
also choose the subaccount and period of interest. Please note: Choosing the subaccount All Subaccounts
lets cloud cockpit aggregate all the subaccounts’ peak usages. This number does not have any meaning. In
cloud cockpit we cannot show you the peak usage per global account.

2.4 Development

To know the tasks and procedures that are relevant for the application developer when adjusting the
application to consume the Variant Configuration service please read the Development Guide for SAP Variant
Configuration and Pricing Services, and do the tutorial Create an SAPUI5 Application for SAP Variant
Configuration and Pricing .

For an overview of the extension concept of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing See the Extension Guide for
SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing.

2.5 Administration

Some initial configuration steps may be necessary to enable the service initially. See Initial Setup [page 10].

For all the information about the administration of the service see the Administration Guide for SAP Variant
Configuration and Pricing.

2.6 Security

To know the settings and configurations that are relevant to operating the Variant Configuration service in a
secure manner, please read the Security Guide for SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing. Please also refer to
the security guide for auditing and logging information.

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2.7 Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Please refer to the Administration Guide for information about Monitoring of data replication.

E-mail notifications are supported via the Alert Notification service (separate license needed for that
service).
The following alert types are available:

● SAP HANA smart data integration Data Provisioning Agent status: an alert is sent if your SAP HANA
smart data integration Data Provisioning Agent reports an error. This alert is not sent immediately, but
after a second check is done, some minutes later, to prevent false alerts caused by brief connection issues.
● Replication failure: an alert is sent if there is an error during the replication of a table.
● Get contacted by SAP Support: SAP Support will send you an alert if you need to take an action, e.g., in
case a new SDI Agent version needs to be installed.

See the section Receiving Alerts of the Administration Guide.

Service Availability

To be notified of maintenance events of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing, visit the Cloud Availability
Center and use the Cloud System Notification Subscriptions .

You can subscribe to be informed of general Cloud platform issues .

Please also refer to Cloud Availability Center and Cloud System Notification Subscriptions .

Engine Traces

In case of unexpected results in configuration or pricing, a special logging can be enabled to see how the
corresponding engine has calculated those values. See Engine Traces.

Reporting an incident

You can report an incident or error through the SAP Support Portal .

Please open an incident using component LOD-CPS. We recommend including the following information:

● Landscape information (Europe (Frankfurt, AWS-EU10), US (Virginia, AWS-US10), Singapore (AWS-AP11))

● The URL of the service or UI page where the incident or error occurs
● The steps or clicks used to replicate the error
● Exact input and output data of the service call
● Screen grabs, videos, or the code being inputted

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