Understanding the Process Steps, Configuration Requirements and Business Roles for Subscription Management with Convergent Invoicing (5IK)

Please refer to the unit in this course for scope item Subscription Management with Sales Billing (57Z) for an overview of process steps related to subscription management.

There are many similarities between scope items 57Z and 5IK. The main difference is that for 57Z the billing functionality from SAP S/4HANA Cloud - Sales is used and for scope item 5IK, Convergent Invoicing is used. See the documentation and test script for scope item Convergent Invoicing - Invoice Creation for Usage and Service (2BG) if you need more information.

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See also the courses available for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition - Finance where the topic of Subscription Billing is also covered.

The best practices explorer (http://rapid.sap.com) provides additional documentation which describes all the set up prerequisites for being able to execute the process as described in the test script for scope item Subscription Management with Convergent Invoicing (5IK). The documentation has the title Setting Up Subscription Management with Convergent Invoicing (5IK). The configuration steps described are customer-specific. This means that they cannot be delivered by SAP, and must be carried out by the customer in their SAP S/4HANA Cloud tenant.

There are required configuration steps in SAP Subscription Billing, SAP Event Mesh, SAP Business Technology Platform integration, and so on.

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The technical details concerning these configuration steps are beyond the scope of this course and can be found in the mentioned documentation.

The above table provides an overview of all the standard business roles that are used in SAP S/4HANA Cloud in the Subscription Management with Convergent Invoicing scope item (5IK).

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This information is based on the test script for scope item Subscription Management with Convergent Invoicing (5IK), which can be found on and downloaded from the SAP Best Practices Explorer website at http://rapid.sap.com.

These roles can be used as a template to create your own business roles for your business users working with scope item Subscription Management with Convergent Invoicing (5IK).

For all specific business process configuration requirements in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, the Configuration Expert - Business Process Configuration role can be used.

The invoicing specialist role (SAP_BR_INVOICING_SPEC_CINV) is used to execute the convergent invoicing process and display the results. The FICA accountant role is used to display the provider contract which is used in the scenario.