Usage of price group in customer master   
 
Have a business requirement like this:

The price group field is used for different discount rates for the customers. There are 2 types of customers wholesale and retail. I am not sure of the usage of price groups in customer master to use for the discount for the customers.
 
Answer:
 
Generally the usage of customer group is to group the customers into One group so that whenever you want to give some additional discount to that customer group then you can give 
 
Example : 
 
Say you have 2 customers and 2 customers have 2 pricing groups. Customer A belongs to Wholesale Pricing grp and Customer B belongs to Retail Pricing grp.  Maintain a condition record With the help of the Customer / Pricing grp key combination.  Now for wholesale you give extra discount and for retail you give less discount.  Now when you create the sales order with Customer A then he will be getting extra discount But if you create the sales order with Customer B then he will be getting normal discount

 
Price group is a field where you can group certain customers under one umbrella.
 
Suppose if you have 3 price groups say price group1 price group2 and price group3.
 
Say there are 10 customers A to J.
 
- You are assigning customers A to D in price group 1.
- You are assigning customers E to G in price group 2.
- You are assigning customers H to J in price group 3 in their respective CMRs.
 
Price group can be added as filed in pricing condition table and you can maintain condition records for them:
 
In VK11 the table with price group 1 is maintained discount of 5 %
In VK11 the table with price group 2 is maintained discount of 6 %
In VK11 the table with price group 3 is maintained discount of 7 %
 
So in sales order the customers A to D will get 5 % discount and customers E to G will get 6 % discount and customers H to J will get 7 % discount.
 
 
How can I create a customer price group?
 
Please go through this IMG path then define the Customer pricing group.
 
SPRO --> IMG --> Sales and Distribution --> Basic Functions ------> Pricing --> Maintain Price relevant master data fields ---> Define Pricing group for Customers.
 
Transaction code --> OVSL

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