Explaining the BRIM Invoicing Process

Customer Headquarters 00 has a subscription contract for cloud selection service level Gold. The contract was closed at 01.01.2020.

The first invoice will be created at the end of January. The first invoice will include the activation fee of 250 EURO, the basic subscription fee of 1,000 Euro, and the recurring subscription fee of 3,000 Euro for service level Gold. Depending on the usage, there are usage fees for CPU, RAM, and Bandwidth. All these billable items are collected in SAP Convergent Invoicing (CI). The billable items are enriched with accounting information. Billing is a preaggregation for invoicing, in order to reduce the volume of data.

This process step within BRIM outlines the key aspects of convergent invoicing, which includes convergent billing and invoicing for one-off, recurring charges, and usage. It also encompasses prepaid and postpaid subscriptions, partner revenue share and settlement, complex discounts, bill plans and bill cycle handling, master agreements, and re-rating.

The Process Steps in Convergent Invoicing are as follows:

1. Step 1: Billable Item Management: One-Off, Usage BITs, and Recurring BITs are stored and enriched for accounting in Convergent Invoicing (CI).
2. Step 2: Billing Process is preaggregation for invoice preparation.
3. Step 3: Invoice Creation and Creation of Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) Documents for accounting.