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Explaining Inbound Processing and Item Fulfillment

<div id="content"><img style="max-width:900px;max-height:none" class="image 1_1_landscape" title="Inbound Processing and Item Fulfillment Process Flow" alt="Inbound Processing and Item Fulfillment Process Flow" src="/service/media/BR270_2411_en-US_media/BR270_2411_en-US_images/U3_L2_002.png" tabindex="0"><div class="imageCaption"></div><div class="parentsection"><div class="section"><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="" class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_alelenvs"></div></div></div></div><div class="parentsection"><div class="section"><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="" class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_pj7iiymy"></div></div></div></div><div class="parentsection"><div class="section"><div tabindex="0"><h3>Invoice Items</h3></div><img style="max-width:900px;max-height:none" class="image 1_1_landscape" title="Flow Diagram - SAP Billing and Revenue Integration Management/SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting Integration – Invoice Items" alt="Flow Diagram - SAP Billing and Revenue Integration Management/SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting Integration – Invoice Items" src="/service/media/BR270_2411_en-US_media/BR270_2411_en-US_images/U3_L2_04.png" tabindex="0"><div class="imageCaption"></div><p tabindex="0">The Invoices from Convergent Invoicing are sent to revenue accounting as Invoice RAIs.</p></div></div></div>

Inbound Processing and Item Fulfillment

Integrating Revenue Accounting and Reporting with SAP BRIM

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A provider contract comprises all legally binding agreements regarding the provision and billing of services that are entered into by a customer and a specified period of time. If you have made the appropriate system settings, the mastered data of provider contracts is automatically replicated from SAPSOM to SAPFICA slash CI and SAPCCC. Provided contracts in convergent invoicing includes the preliminary contract term and additional revenue relevant products can be split into service types. For recurring items is a default service type is specified in customizing. Based on the cross -catalog mapping the service types for usage items are available in the provider contract. The one-off item from the subscription order is not included in the provider contract. Therefore, the one-off order item is created based on the billable item. The service type is derived based on the posting area 8172. For every service type, a separate revenue accounting item gets created. If the RAIs are processed successfully, a corresponding revenue accounting contract with a performance obligation for each service type is created.

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While recurring charges have time-based fulfillment, and hardware can have event-based fulfillment type with event type goods issue, consumption-based revenue recognition takes place by evaluating the billable items of a specific period. Consumed quantities are transferred as fulfillment items to revenue accounting. Revenue accounting system calculates the revenue to be recognized based on the fulfillments.