Describing SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management - SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting Integration Component

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to explain the integration between SAP Billing and Revenue Integration Management, and SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting.

Integration Advantages

Revenue Accounting Item (RAI) - What Is It?

SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting, and SAP Billing and Revenue Integration Management - Integration Architecture

Integration Setup

The integration between Convergent Invoicing and SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting requires configuration in both modules:

  1. SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR)
  2. SAP Convergent Invoicing (SAP CI)

Within the end-to-end process, the integration between BRIM and SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting uses Convergent Invoicing in the SAP S/4HANA system exclusively as a data source. Convergent Invoicing sends all required data to SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting.

As part of the Offer-to-Cash processes, Convergent Invoicing records for SAP RAR. On the basis of these transfer records, Convergent Invoicing creates revenue accounting items in inbound processing of SAP RAR. The system differentiates between order-, fulfillment-, and invoice items (also called RAIs).

SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting receives the operative data (order items, invoice items, and fulfillment items) from the ERP system and stores the data in the form of Revenue Accounting Items. The technical properties of the Revenue Accounting Items are determined by Revenue Accounting Item classes. You define these technical properties in Customizing for Revenue Accounting under Inbound ProcessingRevenue Accounting Items. To transfer Revenue Accounting Items from the ERP system to the revenue accounting system, the Revenue Accounting Item classesCA01 (for order items), CA02 (for fulfillment items), and CA03 (for invoice items) must be available in the revenue accounting system. SAP defines the technical names of these classes. Using these technical names during revenue item class generation, the system automatically applies the settings required for each class.

1. Configuration Steps SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting

  1. Maintain Revenue Accounting item classes in Customizing for Revenue Accounting (Classic Version)
    • CA01 for order items
    • CA02 for fulfillment items
    • CA03 for invoice items
  2. For new SAP RAR Inbound Processing, assign BRF+ applications to sender component CA.
  3. Define the logical system and the RFC destination for communicating with the system in which SAP Convergent Invoicing is running (transaction SM59). Assign the logical system and the RFC destination to the sender component CA.
  4. Maintain the condition type for the standalone selling price in Customizing for SAP RAR.

Note

Depending on your system landscape, perform the settings in either Revenue Accounting → Inbound Processing or Revenue Accounting → Inbound Processing (Classic).

In the new (non-classic) version of Revenue Accounting Inbound Processing, there is only one generic input structure for RAIs. No maintenance of RAI classes in customizing is needed.

This feature is available with SAP S/4HANA 2020.

2. Configuration Steps SAP Convergent Invoicing

  1. Activate the business function:
    • Integration with Revenue Accounting
    • Integration with Revenue Accounting 2
  2. Make the following settings in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Integration → Revenue Accounting:
    1. Activate integration with Revenue Accounting.
    2. Define the RFC destination for communicating with the system in which Revenue Accounting is running (transaction SM59).
    3. Define the derivation of the Relevant for Revenue Accounting indicator of the contract item in the Activate Provider Contract Items for Revenue Accounting activity.
    4. Maintain the service types.
    5. In the Assign Service IDs to Service Types  activity, define the settings for deriving the service types of a provider contract or a one-off charge from the CRM Service ID.
    6. Define number ranges for the Revenue Accounting item ID.
  3. Define the specifications for determination of the service type for Revenue Accounting by using the item category or the material account assignment group, or both.

    The Customizing node is here: FICAIMG → Integration → SAP Customer Relationship Management → Transfer for One-Off Charges → Define Main Transactions and Sub Transactions.

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