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**⚡ Smart Summary**

Compare Price for Different Quotations in SAP using transaction ME49. The price comparison list ranks vendor offers by collective number and recalculates the effective price once discounts and freight are included.

- 📊 **Core Transaction:** ME49 produces the price comparison list for every quotation sharing one collective RFQ number.
- 🔢 **Selection Key:** Purchasing organisation plus collective number is the fastest selection; without it every quotation number must be listed.
- 💲 **Net vs Effective:** The first run ranks on net price only, which frequently names the wrong winner.
- 🚚 **Freight Impact:** Ticking the price calculation boxes adds discounts and freight, changing the leading vendor in the worked example.
- 📈 **Benchmarks:** Mean value and minimum value quotations show the average and lowest offer as reference lines.
- 🥇 **Ranking Output:** A rank number per vendor makes the best offer visible without manual arithmetic.
- ➡️ **Next Action:** The winning offer is accepted and the rest are rejected directly from the comparison screen.

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![Quotation price comparison in SAP using ME49](https://www.guru99.com/images/sap-me49-quotation-price-comparison.png)

## What is the Quotation Price Comparison List?

The price comparison list is a report that places every vendor offer for the same requirement side by side and ranks them. It exists because comparing quotations by eye is unreliable once each supplier quotes in a different unit, currency, or delivery quantity.

ME49 normalises all of that. It converts each offer into a common currency and a common quantity basis, applies whatever pricing conditions are maintained, and produces a rank per vendor.

After your quotations are entered, you can compare them to select the best available offer at this moment. We can compare the quotations in transaction code **ME49**.

We can select which quotations will be compared by using the collective number we addressed before to be an important field that is maintained on RFQ (or directly on the quotation).

If we forget to enter the collective number, we will have to supply all the quotation numbers in the selection field “ [Quotation](https://www.guru99.com/how-to-create-quotations.html)“.

**💡 Tip:** The comparison is only as complete as the quotations behind it. A vendor whose freight condition was never entered in ME47 will look cheaper than it is, so confirm every offer is fully maintained before drawing conclusions.

## Steps to Compare Price for Different Quotation

**Step 1)** In transaction **ME49**, Enter

1. **Purchasing organization** (e.g. 0001).
2. **Collective RFQ** (we have used 190123).
3. Execute the transaction.

[![Compare Price for Different Quotation in SAP]()](https://www.guru99.com/images/sap/2013/05/052013_1010_Howtocompar1.png)

The comparison list looks like this:

[![Compare Price for Different Quotation in SAP]()](https://www.guru99.com/images/sap/2013/05/052013_1010_Howtocompar2.png)

From the list we can see that Vendor1 have proposed a better price.

What we need to do is check the **effective price** (with discounts, freight cost and other conditions). We will go back to the selection screen and we will tick three check boxes.

**Step 2)**

1. Check all the boxes in the Price Calculations section.
2. Execute the transaction.

[![Compare Price for Different Quotation in SAP]()](https://www.guru99.com/images/sap/2013/05/052013_1010_Howtocompar3.png)

Our results have changed significantly.

Now Vendor2 has the better price, and price of Vendor1 has gone up 256 EUR because of freight cost.

Now we can conclude that our Vendor2 has the best price, and we can proceed with the process.

[![Compare Price for Different Quotation in SAP]()](https://www.guru99.com/images/sap/2013/05/052013_1010_Howtocompar4.png)

If you select Mean value quotation and Minimum value quotation on the previous screen, you will get the result as they are shown below on the screen.

1. Average price on all the quotations.
2. Minimum price for all the quotations.

[![Compare Price for Different Quotation in SAP]()](https://www.guru99.com/images/sap/2013/05/052013_1010_Howtocompar5.png)

After comparing the prices/conditions, you can decide which offers to accept and which ones to reject.

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## Price Calculation Options in ME49

The checkboxes on the ME49 selection screen are what turned Vendor1 from winner into runner up. Each one changes what the ranking is based on, so knowing them prevents an expensive misreading.

| Option | What it adds to the comparison | When to use it |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Include discounts | Applies percentage and absolute discount conditions maintained on each quotation | Always, whenever vendors quote volume or early payment discounts |
| Include delivery costs | Adds freight, duty, and other delivery conditions to the item value | Always for imported goods or heavy items, where freight dominates |
| Effective price | Produces the true landed cost per unit after all conditions | The figure that should decide the award |
| Mean value quotation | Adds a reference line showing the average across all offers | Judging whether the winning price is genuinely competitive |
| Minimum value quotation | Adds a reference line showing the lowest price per item | Split awards where different vendors win different lines |
| Percentage basis | Expresses each offer as a percentage of the reference price | Reporting the spread between suppliers to management |

The mean and minimum lines are reference rows, not vendors. They never receive an award; they exist so the buyer can see how far the winning bid sits from the field.

## Reading the Output and Choosing a Vendor

Price is the loudest signal in the comparison list, but it is not the only one, and awarding on the lowest number alone is how procurement teams end up with late deliveries.

Read the list in this order:

1. **Check the rank on effective price, not net price.** The first run of the report ranks on the raw quoted figure. Only the recalculated run reflects what will actually be paid.
2. **Compare against the mean.** A winning bid far below the average deserves scrutiny. It often signals a different specification, a smaller pack size, or an omitted freight condition.
3. **Check the delivery date the vendor committed to.** A cheaper offer arriving two weeks late may be unusable, and the comparison list does not weight this for you.
4. **Consider split awards.** Where several materials are on one RFQ, the minimum value line often shows different winners per item. Nothing prevents accepting one vendor for one line and another for the next.
5. **Look beyond a single round.** Vendor evaluation scores, past on time performance, and quality history sit outside ME49 and should inform the final decision.

Once the decision is made, the accepted offer is confirmed and the remainder are declined. Continue with [selecting or rejecting a quotation](https://www.guru99.com/how-to-select-or-reject-a-quotation.html), after which the winning terms can flow into a [purchase info record](https://www.guru99.com/how-to-create-a-purchase-info-record.html) and on to a [purchase order](https://www.guru99.com/how-to-create-a-purchase-order.html).

## FAQs

🔢 Can quotations be compared without a collective number?

Yes, but every quotation number must be typed into the selection field individually. Maintaining a collective number on the RFQ makes the same comparison a single entry.

💱 How are offers in different currencies handled?

ME49 converts every quotation into the purchasing organisation currency using the rate valid on the comparison date, so the ranking is meaningful across international suppliers.

🤖 How does AI improve quotation comparison?

AI weighs price alongside delivery reliability, quality history, and payment terms, producing a total value ranking rather than the pure cost ranking that ME49 alone can show.

🧠 Can AI spot a bid that looks too good to be true?

Yes. Outlier detection compares the offer with historical prices for the material and flags bids far below the field, which usually indicates a specification mismatch or a missing condition.

🥈 Can different vendors win different items on one RFQ?

Yes. Acceptance and rejection are set per item, so a split award is possible. The minimum value line in the comparison list shows which supplier leads on each material.

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