Performing Account Splitting

The business of our example company is expanding, with multiple business customers negotiating numerous contracts for their subsidiaries. In order to optimize performance in the rating process, the 10 B2B customers, each with over 1000 subscription contracts, will be divided into smaller groups for account splitting. The example company is implementing account splitting functionality for these customers.

Account Splitting is a feature in SAP Convergent Invoicing. It is triggered by SAP Subscription Order Management based on customer categorization.

In SAP Convergent Charging, there is a limit on the number of contracts for a specific subscriber account (business partner) due to performance reasons. To address this limitation, a new concept of alternative subscriber accounts has been introduced to optimize workload distribution among SAP Convergent Charging rater instances. Each provider contract in SAP Convergent Invoicing can now manage their own independent alternative subscriber accounts in SAP Convergent Charging.

Several alternative subscriber accounts have to share the same subscriber tables of the original business partner in SAP Convergent Invoicing. This has led to the introduction of agreement tables as a new variant of SAP Convergent Charging tables. Agreement tables are mapping or range tables that are shared between multiple objects with a specific relationship.

Account splitting is a performance optimization technique for evaluating B2B business partners who have a high volume of subscription contracts and usage. To implement this method, a subscription order with a split in the subscription order item category can be created, or a BADI can be used to apply customized rules for splitting.

1. Provider contract creation concatenates an additional field alternative subscriber account which consists out of business partner number and Provider Contracts number.
2. The Web Service interface to Convergent Charging creates an own subscriber account for each provider contract with an alternative subscriber account number.
3. Create subscriber accounts with alternative subscriber account number via FI-CA Joint Master Data Distribution.
4. Subscriber accounts are distributed to different rater instances of SAP Convergent Charging for performance optimization in parallel processing.
5. Since the original subscriber number is not valid for the provider contracts anymore, an agreement table is used to store business partner adapted prices for services.