Exploring Allowances

1.

Which statements are true with regards to allowance management in SAP Billing Revenue and Innovation Management?

There are two correct answers.

Allowances must be created manually whenever needed for a contract.

Allowances can be created freely as SAP Convergent Charging allows it. There are no architectural limitations in SAP Billing Revenue and Innovation Management.

Allowance definitions must be kept in so called "allowance definition tables". These tables have additional information attached, so that they can be recognized as allowance definition tables by SAP Subscription Order Management.

The service identifier used to create allowances must be "ALLOW_" followed by up to six characters.

You should never create more that three allowances.

2.

The steps along the allowance lifecycle are…

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Creation, Use, Expiration, Purge

Creation, Activation, Expiration, Purge

Spawn, Activation, Expiration, Deletion

Order, Fulfillment, Expiration, Archiving

3.

What is the purpose of allowances?

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Allowances are objects that control user access to table data. They are what "authorizations" are in an ABAP-based system.

Allowances define quotas for database space on the SAP Convergent Charging database.

Allowances are representations of quantities of service usage that can be granted to customers for free or at special conditions / prices.

Allowances are objects that allow customers to user certain services.

4.

What are the processes for managing allowances?

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Creation, Consumption, Expiration, Deletion

Activation, Consumption, Expiration, Deletion

Creation, Activation, Consumption, Expiration

Order, Consumption, Fulfillment, Archiving

5.

What is the purpose of shared allowances?

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Shared allowances use database space more efficiently by sharing certain data structures.

Shared allowances permit the use of allowances across contracts belonging to different subscriber accounts.

Shared allowances can be read by more than one rater at the same time, hence the term "shared".

Shared allowances share the rating performance between more than one provider contract.

6.

What is "deferred revenue"?

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When a customer cannot pay their invoice, the revenues are deferred. Therefore, late payers cause "deferred revenue".

When customers pay for certain volumes of service in advance and receive the services later, the corresponding revenue is considered "deferred revenue" until the service is delivered by the service provider.

When a service provider sends out customer invoices late, the corresponding revenues must be posted as "deferred revenue" for legal reasons.

Service providers provide forecasts to their shareholders every year about their expected customer revenues in the coming year. When the service provider does not meet the estimated revenue, the missing amount is considered "deferred revenue" until it was realized.

7.

The design time building blocks of allowances are…

There are three correct answers.

Allowance Definition Class

Allowance Event Class

Allowance Algorithm

Allowance Mapping

Allowance Interface

Allowance Logic

Allowance Spending Limit

Allowance Plan

Knowledge quiz

Which statements are true with regards to allowance management in SAP Billing Revenue and Innovation Management?

The steps along the allowance lifecycle are…

What is the purpose of allowances?

What are the processes for managing allowances?

What is the purpose of shared allowances?

What is "deferred revenue"?

The design time building blocks of allowances are…