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Author's profile photo Tayane Mazzarino

Understanding the Price Category information

Hello community,

 

Hope you’re doing fine today! This blog post provides you a deeper explanation regarding the Price Category feature which is mainly used in Maintain Business User and Business Catalogs applications.

 

Giving a quick contextualization, Business Catalogs contain a sample collection of target mappings and app launcher tiles relevant for a Business Role. With the Maintain Business Roles app you define business roles by combining predefined business catalogs and use them to control the access to your applications.

Since the release 1911 (hotfix collection 5), Business Catalogs are assigned to price categories (advanced use, core use, self-service use) defined according to each catalog existing in the system and are directly tied to it, which means that they cannot be changed. This assignment has been adapted to reflect the latest Use Rights as they are defined in the respective SAP S/4HANA Cloud Service Descriptions, which you can find in the SAP Trust Center.

These three categories reflect on the users and are used to differentiate them between levels of access, in other words, users are measured as individual persons and each has your user type based on the Business Catalogs assigned to them. Below you can find a short description of each category:

  • Advanced: full access to all S/4HANA Cloud capabilities, in particular to all differentiating,
    analytics, planning and configuration capabilities
  • Core: user type to address basic business capabilities within a line of business
  • Self-Service: mostly data consumption capabilities or lightweight tasks

If you look at Maintain Business Users app or download your Business Users you can see the price category of the employees. You don’t stipulate what price category they are in (neither via upload nor elsewhere) because this is determined based on the roles (and business catalogs and therefore the apps) that are assigned to that business user.

If a business user had only business roles with apps of the ‘Core’ category for example, that’s their price category. If they had an app that was of the ‘advanced’ category alongside ‘core’ apps, then the role assigned to the user would be of ‘advanced’ category – and so the business user inherits that same ‘advanced’ price category.

For calculation of this metric, SAP will retrieve all assignments of catalogues to users and derives the ‘highest’ classification which then results in the classification of the user. For that calculation, the classifications are ordered in the following way and the highest classification counts: ADVANCED > CORE > SELF-SERVICE.

Let’s check three scenarios to clarify how the classification works:

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First scenario: The user will be counted as ADVANCED, even that there’s only one Business Catalog with Price Category advanced.

Second scenario: The user will be counted as CORE, even that there’s only one Business Catalog with Price Category core, once that there isn’t any advanced catalog.

Third scenario: The user will be counted as SELF-SERVICE, since that there’s only the Business Catalog with Price Category self-service.

 

To conclude, there is another case where the price category is present and may cause some doubts: when you create a custom app and need to add catalogs to it. In this case, I recommend you to assign a Business Catalog related to the business operations carried out in your developed tiles, but of course considering the price category, once that there’ll be users assigned to use the application. You can use the Business Catalog app to check all existing catalogs with their respective descriptions and price categories.

 

Hope this information is useful for you! I would greatly appreciate if you could share your feedbacks and thoughts in the comments.

Also, I encourage you to browse for other Community Topics that may be useful for you.

 

Best regards,

Tayane.

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      Author's profile photo Aashka Shah
      Aashka Shah

      Hi Tayene,

       

      For some of the business Catalogs we see price category as "Individual Pricing per catalog". Can you please explain what that means? For example, if you look at "Cash Manager role", it shows business catalog "cash management - cash operations" with price category "Individual Pricing per catalog (AddOn).

       

      thanks,

      Aashka

      Author's profile photo Tayane Mazzarino
      Tayane Mazzarino
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Aashka,

       

      I checked in Business Catalogs app and the Price Category for Cash Management - Cash Operations is "Advanced". Would you please inform where you found the information "Individual Pricing per Catalog"?

       

      Thank you!

      Author's profile photo Jerry Jin
      Jerry Jin

      Hi Tayene,

      I found the same question about  "Individual Pricing per catalog (AddOn) in role SAP_BR_EXTERNAL_AUDITOR_GRP

       

      Can you please explain what that means?

      Author's profile photo Tayane Mazzarino
      Tayane Mazzarino
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Jerry,

       

      Can you provide a screenshot from where you're taking this information?

      Thank you!

      Author's profile photo Jerry Jin
      Jerry Jin

      I doesn't know why I cannot attach picture in this blog. The functionality did not work for unknow reason.

      You can found the role SAP_BR_EXTERNAL_AUDITOR_GRP in CCF/CC3 or whatever internal system.

      The standard role contain many such catalogs with type Individual pricing per catalog (AddOn)

      Author's profile photo Tayane Mazzarino
      Tayane Mazzarino
      Blog Post Author

      INDIVIDUAL catalogues usually belong to Solution Addons, which are prices separately. Business Catalogs with INDIVIDUAL pricing do not impact the calculation of the pricing category of the user.

      For example: Cash Management with a separate SKU (material) comes with own BC’s. They will then be counted against the respective Material Usage.

      Hence, for some of the INDIVIDUAL, customers should have a (different) separate license,

      Content should only be in the system if the license is active (and content) provisioned.

      Some of the INDIVIDUAL catalogues are in the system because they are enables, but as mentioned earlier not relevant for pricing.

      Author's profile photo Mark Hughes
      Mark Hughes

      For those who don't have access to the Business Catalog app, is there a reference showing all (standard / SAP-delivered) BC <-> Price Category mappings?

      Author's profile photo Tayane Mazzarino
      Tayane Mazzarino
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Mark,

       

      I believe that it's not possible to have a reference showing all Business Catalogs if you don't have access to the app.

      What you could do is use the SAP Fiori Apps Library to search for an application and find the Business Catalogs related to this specific application. However, this will not provide you the Price Category, only the Business Catalog depending on what application you're searching for.

       

      Thank you!

      Author's profile photo Saurabh Kumar
      Saurabh Kumar

      Hello,

       

      I can see a new price category call "Development Support", an idea what is all about?

       

      Regards,

      Saurabh

      Author's profile photo Tayane Mazzarino
      Tayane Mazzarino
      Blog Post Author

      Dear Saurabh,

       

      Would you please inform where you're seeing this Development Support price category?

       

      Thank you!

      Author's profile photo Neslihan Zahmetsiz
      Neslihan Zahmetsiz

      Hi Tayane,

       

      I have seen the same price category. Here is the list of business catalogs with the "Development Support" price category:

       

       

      How should we consider these on the pricing of roles/users? What is its effect on FUE calculations?

       

      Thanks!

       

       

      Author's profile photo Tayane Mazzarino
      Tayane Mazzarino
      Blog Post Author

      Dear community,

       

      Just an update regarding Custom Catalogs:

      Own/customer created applications and Business Catalogs have no pricing and therefore the have no influence on the FUE licensing.

      Only the SAP Business Catalogs have a pricing and they determine in the end the price for the role and in the end for the user.

       

      Kind regards,

      Tayane.

      Author's profile photo Neslihan Zahmetsiz
      Neslihan Zahmetsiz

      Hello,

       

      I have also seen a price category called "Test". Can you please explain what that means?

       

       

      Thanks!