Static Billing 

Use

If no sales order or service contract exists for the service order and the order type allows revenues to be posted to the order, you can create a request for resource-related billing directly for the service order.

The revenues from the billing document are posted to the service order, where the net revenue is determined as the difference between the revenue and the costs. The service order can then be settled to a profitability segment or to a G/L account.

The type of billing described here is static resource-related billing. From Release 4.5A, you can perform flexible resource-related billing.

Prerequisites

You can only create a billing request directly for a service order that is settled to a G/L account or a profitability segment, that is, to account assignment objects with a revenue account.

In resource-related billing, the materials, activities and costs are itemized in the billing document. The billing document is sent to the customer. The activities and costs are represented by activity numbers, that form the basis for determining prices and texts in the billing document.

An authorized system user defines the activity numbers when configuring the system for the company. If you have the necessary authorization, you can also define or display the activity numbers. To do this, choose Completion ® Determine activity in the Service Processing screen.

To perform resource-related billing, you need to define activity numbers for the following during system configuration:

During billing, the cost elements and cost center activity types contained in the line items are converted to the corresponding activity number and entered in the billing request.

Features

For more information on general billing functions in the R/3 System, refer to the documentation SD - Sales and Distribution Processing.

See Also:

Billing Document