Integration with SAP Convergent Charging

SAP Convergent Charging handles the rating (pricing) and charging (determination of invoice recipient) of services. As a result, billable items are created that you can transfer to Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.

Activities
To adopt billable items from SAP Convergent Charging and process them in Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, you perform the following steps in your ERP system: 1. Configure an appropriate billable item class in Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. To do so, in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, choose Integration Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Billable Item Classes Maintain Billable Item Classes . 2. 3. Activate the interface component SAP Convergent Charging for the class. Enter transfer rules for the billable item class. To do so, in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, choose Integration Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Billable Item Management Define Processing Rules and Program Enhancements and enter the transfer rule Add Items with Errors as Raw Data. 4. Generate the objects for the class in your test system or live system. To do so, in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, choose Integration Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Billable Item Classes Generate Interfaces for Billable Item Classes . 5. 6. Create a user from the SAP Easy Access screen under Tools Administration User Maintenance Users . On the Logon Data tab page, enter the User Type Communication Data. Assign this user the authorizations for the authorization objects F_KKBIXBIT and F_KKBIXCON. Using the access data of this user, SAP Convergent Charging calls the APIs in SAP Convergent Invoicing in the ERP system. Now perform the following steps for SAP Convergent Charging. For more information, see the documentation for SAP Convergent Charging. 1. 2. Create a catalog. Create a mapping for billable items and a charged item class. SAP Convergent Charging offers a list of the billable item classes that you have created in Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. Choose a billable item class. SAP Convergent Charging automatically creates a mapping for billable items and a charged item class that is based on the billable item class you choose. 3. 4. 5. Create a chargeable item package and a chargeable item class. Create the charges. Create an offer and assign charges.

In each charge of the offer, you map the charged items. That means you specify which values the system adopts in the individual fields. You can reuse values from rating or charging or the processing of chargeable items.

EXAMPLE SAP Convergent Charging automatically derives the field Amount of the Billable Item (BIT_AMOUNT) from the charged amount. 6. Create a customer account. Specify the connection of the master data to Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. In the external account key, enter the number of the contract account in Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. Under External Billing System, enter the number of the business partner in Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. 7. 8. Create a contract. Create an incoming entry.

You can change billable item classes in Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. The changes that are allowed depend on the configuration status of the class (see Configuration of Billable Item Classes).

NOTE Note: If a class has the configuration status In Processing or Transportable, you can change the interface in any way you like. In particular, this means that you can delete fields from the interface. Since SAP Convergent Charging does not support the deletion of individual fields in a charged item class, you have to create a new mapping for billable items with a new charged item class. You also have to adjust all dependent objects in SAP Convergent Charging accordingly (such as the charges in the offers). If a billable item class has the configuration status Released as Productive, you can only make compatible changes to the interface. This means that you can only add fields to the interface. The system adds the new fields to the end of the structures in the interface. As a result, you can continue to adopt billable items using the corresponding generated RFC function module, without it being necessary for SAP Convergent Charging to fill these new fields (offset problematic with RFC calls). If SAP Convergent Charging is to fill these new fields with values, you must identify all changes to the configuration so that SAP Convergent Charging can generate or convert the corresponding data. You also have to determine the method for converting these changes. For more information, see the configuration guide for SAP Convergent Charging.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable offers the following Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) as RFC function modules. SAP Convergent Charging uses these APIs: FKK_BIX_BITCAT_LIST_GET_SAPCC This API supplies the list of billable item classes that are released as productive and that you have created for SAP Convergent Charging.

FKK_BIX_BITCAT_STRUC_GET_API This API supplies the technical definitions for a billable item class, such as the field names in the interface for the class.

/1FE/<billable item class>_BIT_CREATE_API This API is generated for a billable item class and sends the items to SAP Convergent Invoicing.

NOTE You do not have to configure a destination in order to send billable items. A destination is only required if you process telecommunications tax data. Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable also offers the API FKK_BIX_BITCAT_LIST_GET_API. This API supplies the list of billable item classes that are released as productive. SAP Convergent Charging does not use this API.

More Information
For more information about SAP Convergent Charging, see the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com Business Suite SAP Convergent Charging . SAP