Lesson Overview
The billing process overview shows at which step in the process chain consume-to-cash starts, storage of rated events coming from SAP Convergent Charging or another rating system.
Business Example
The company Print Service Corporation is a service provider for print services. Print services are charged in one charging system and data services are charged in another charging system. Print Service Corporation wants to invoice both services on one invoice with convergent invoicing. The first step is to provide database structures to load print services and data services into SAP Convergent Invoicing.
Billable Item Management Overview
In SAP S/4HANA, you can use enhancements in billing for contract accounts receivable and payable. You can import, bill, and manage rated events from various external systems. An example of a rated event is call detail record (CDR), recurring charges, non-recurring charges.
Rated events coming from SAP Convergent Charging or other legacy rating systems are stored and processed, and additional data from other legacy systems is taken into consideration to create structured bill content.
Conclusion:
In convergent invoicing, you need to use import management for charged items so that you can bill them.
Billable Item Management Functions:
- Flexible and easy to implement classes to categorize billable items.
- Standard tool to generate interfaces, databases, and access function modules.
- Freely definable and flexible storage of billable items in databases.
- Business-related pre-configured field catalogs.
- Customer-specific information can be added without modification.
- API Interface to rating and charging systems to receive rated billable items
- Storage and processing of rated billable items depending on processing status.
- Aggregation and grouping of billable items based on configuration.
- Passes results of billing step into invoicing process.
In the following lessons we will work through this list of functions and see how they are implemented in SAP Convergent Invoicing.