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Introducing Central Price Book

Central Price Book™ extends the functionality of the Computerized Daily Book™ by helping you manage your enterprise from a central location, for example, a PC in the pricing manager’s office.

CPB processes and manages pricing information for inventory items, allowing additions, updates, deletions, and transfers among CDB sites that are grouped by pricing zones. You define these zones to meet the needs of your business. (How Central Price Book’s zone/site structure influences CDB pricing behavior can be found in “CDB Zones and Sites”.)

CPB is a web-based application. It is accessed from the SSCS Portal. (See “Logging Onto the SSCS Portal” to learn how.)

Important

Because Central Price Book (CPB) extends the functionality of the Computerized Daily Book (CDB) back office, it is imperative that the reader of this user guide have AT LEAST an intermediate understanding of how to use the CDB back office software.

In this chapter we’ll provide a conceptual overview of Central Price Book™ (CPB) and how it works with the Computerized Daily Book to keep your price book accurate and up-to-date. If you want to skip the introduction and start using the program, please begin with “Required Setup in the Computerized Daily Book”. Once you follow those instructions, read “Accessing the SSCS Portal” to how to log onto and open Central Price Book.

When you start working with the program:

•	Read about the features on the CPB Adjust menu in “Adjust Menu”.

•	Read about CPB’s Reports in “Reports”.

•	Read about the features on the CPB Setup menu in “Setup Menu”.

•	Read about CPB Help in “Help Menu”.

•	A rundown of this user guide’s conventions can be found in “Appendix 1: User Guide Conventions”.

•	A rundown of the software’s operating conventions can be found in “Appendix 2: CPB Software Operating Conventions”.