Line Discounts on Sales Documents

Question

Hi All,
On a current implementation, our client offers a standard discount to each of his customers. This discount is across all items but will differ for each customer. I have set this up in the OCRD.Discount field against the BP. This works fine but only calculates at document total level, not at line level.
The client needs to show their clients a list price, item discount and net price, so this solution is not acceptable.
Without using any coding, the only solution I can think of is to set up BP Special Prices for each client, but this seem like a huge overkill?
Is there a way of coding to pick up a discount from a UDF in the client record to populate the line discount field on the marketing document, unless there is already a BP Special Price in existance for the client / product?
Any help would be appreciated.
Kind regards,
Ian

Answer 1

Hi Dave & Suda,
Thanks for your input. To clarify, the client has a number of standard discounts raising in 2.5% from 25% to 60%, so by my calcualtion, this would require 14 different price lists.
Whilst this is acheivable and has the benefit of rolling any price increases / decreases through from the master price list, it will not deliver the required information at item line level.
The sales document will show the list price as the discounted price from the price list, not he list price from the matser price list and the discount.
i.e. if PART A has a list price of £10.00 and is on 'discount price list 20%' @ £8.00 when the item is drawn down for a client assocuated to this price list, it will show as a price of £8.00 not £10.00 less 20% giving a net price of £8.00.
For this reason, it will not work in this instance.
This leaves one option using the standard system functionallity, as far as I can see, which is to generate a customer special price list for each client, holding all stock records at their relevant discount %.
Based on the fact they have approx 1500 client & 1500 stock records this would equate to 22,500,000 records, and this worries me!
Also, the mechanisam for copying these is obly viable by customer group (already used for somthing else) or properties, which would mean reserving 14 for this reason alone.
I am sure the better solution would be to use a UDF on the customer record card to contain their discount% and use a formatted search to populate this into the discount field at line level, if there is nothing there already.
I just don't have the coding skills to do this and wondered if anyone could give me a head start.
Many thanks,
Ian