Pricing Event Calendar

The Pricing Event Calendar is a graphic display that allows you to see the status of the Future Pricing Events and edit selected information within them, depending upon the event’s status.

Important

While you can access scheduled future pricing events here, you have to add new ones using the Clone Pricing Event feature which you can find in “Editing Pricing Events”.

To access the calendar, in CPB, on the Adjust menu, click Pricing Event Calendar:

Each visible square in the main body of this calendar represents a pricing event. They are color-coded and contain small icons that explain pricing event status and the actions that are available to you. Two grids at the top of this screen explain which each means, which we cover in the next two sections.

When a pricing event is added to the calender, it is time stamped with 12 AM, the default start time. If you are launching more than one promotion on the same day, CPB will sort the promotions in the order in which you entered them and will apply a system generated time stamp (12:01, 12:02, 12:03...) to ensure they deploy in that order.

Important

Future Pricing Events are set up in the Item Adjust Menu, and you can read all about creating them in “Adding a New Pricing Event”.

Status Color Key

The leftmost grid at the top of the screen provides a color key relating to the status of pricing events in the main part of the calendar:

Pending Distribution in Central Price Book — A pricing event displays green when it has been set up, but not yet Distributed to Sites. Remember, you are responsible for manually initiating Distribute to Sites the day the Future Pricing Event is to take place. Therefore a green event is as good as synonymous with an event that has not yet taken place.

Tip

The Computerized Daily Book allows you to schedule automatically a Distribute to Sites event that initiates on a regular basis without manual intervention. For more information on scheduled tasks, consult the “Scheduled Tasks” section in the CDB User’s Guide.

Ready for Distribution to CDB Sites— On the day of a pricing event, the scheduled event turns yellow. This is a signal that you must perform a Distribute to Sites event, so that the prices in the event can take effect in the CDB. If a calendar event remains yellow past the day of its scheduled start, you should Distribute to Sites as soon as possible.

Distributed to Site —A blue pricing event is an event that already has been Distributed to Sites and may currently be in use, depending upon whether you have terminated it not (see “Terminating the Effect of a Future Pricing Event”).

Error —A red pricing event denotes an error has occurred in the Future Pricing process. Please contact SSCS Technical Support at your earliest convenience to resolve the issue.