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This 1-day self-paced course provides students with conceptual and procedural information on item and pricing administration. The course teaches students essential information pertaining to item and pricing administration using the IBM® Sterling Business Center application. This course is primarily designed for developers and implementers.

The course begins with an overview of the item and pricing concepts along with an introduction to the Sterling Business Center application. The course thereafter provides detailed information pertaining to price lists, price rules, coupons, price types, and related concepts.

Through a combination of procedural information and exercises, students can learn to create pricing rules, and so on. Each unit has a checkpoint for the students to reinforce the topics that were covered.

After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Describe item and pricing concepts.
• Navigate the IBM Sterling Business Center application and understand its functionality.
• Create the following pricing engine components:
  • Price lists
  • Pricing rules
  • Coupons
  • Price types

This course is designed to train pricing administrators and pricing managers.

There are no prerequisites for this course.

The following topics will be covered during this course:

• Course Overview
• Unit 1: Introduction to IBM Sterling Business Center
  • Lesson 1.1: Introduction to Item and Pricing Concepts
  • Lesson 1.2: Introduction to IBM Sterling Business Center
  • Exercise 1.2.1: Navigate the Sterling Business Center
• Unit 2: Pricing Administration
  • Lesson 2.1: Price Lists
  • Exercise 2.1.1: Create a Price List
  • Lesson 2.2: Pricing Rules
  • Exercise 2.2.1: Create a Pricing Rule
  • Lesson 2.3: Coupons
  • Lesson 2.3: Price Types
  • Exercise 2.3.1: Enable Multiple Price Type
• Course Wrap Up

Prior to enrolling, IBM Employees must follow their Division/Department processes to obtain approval to attend this public training class. Failure to follow Division/Department approval processes may result in the IBM Employee being personally responsible for the class charges.

GBS practitioners that use the EViTA system for requesting external training should use that same process for this course. Go to the EViTA site to start this process:

http://w3.ibm.com/services/gbs/evita/BCSVTEnrl.nsf

Once you enroll in a GTP class, you will receive a confirmation letter that should show:

• The current GTP list price
• The 20% discounted price available to IBMers. This is the price you will be invoiced for the class.