Review of the Pricing Application

The pricing application is an enterprise application used by a mid-sized household goods manufacturing company to provide a pricing query service. The end users of this service are the company’s sales force, which uses the service’s web interface to determine the quoting price of a certain set of high-end specialty products, and the specialty product management team, which monitors the business parameters driving the pricing algorithm and, in the case of some special products, is also responsible for the approval of changes to these parameters. The price of these high-end products is subject to frequent change based on market conditions. The pricing application is therefore integrated with the corporate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) s....Figure 8-1