Service Item

Definition

Unit that describes an advertising service that represents sales of advertising services.

Use

To replicate sales of advertising services such as design or reproduction services for ad orders in sales documents.

Note Note

Customizing settings define whether the service item type is active during document processing.

End of the note.

Structure

Each service item has an item record in which sales of advertising services are described as follows:

Data	Use
Business partner data	Describes which business partners are involved in the sale of advertising services and the roles that they perform. Each service item has a sold-to party and at least one payer, bill-to party and advertiser. If you have not specified any alternate business partners or additional addresses in the sold-to party master data, the sold-to party and their address are assigned to the service item in the advertiser , payer and bill-to party roles. The sold-to party does not however have to perform these roles. If you create an agency or direct order with several advertisers, you can create a business partner who is not the sold-to party in the advertiser , payer and bill-to party roles. An advertiser can remain anonymous in agency orders. See also: Entry of Sold-to Parties and Advertisers If sales agent determination has been activated in Customizing and a sales agent contract requirement matches a service item, the system assigns this requirement to the service item when you confirm the item data. See also: Sales Agent Determination Suitable contract assignments can also be assigned to service items manually. See also: Sales Agent Assignment A business partner can be assigned to service items as the ad spec master recipient or correction deduction recipient if these roles have been defined for them by the user in Customizing. See also: Entry of Business Partners in User-Defined Roles
Planning data	A service item does not contain any planning data. It is not necessary to check material availability when services are performed. Booking units, content components and performance dates are not relevant to planning and pricing. However, they are required for sales agent and contract determination and billing and settlement of service items.
Technical data	Used to produce service items and includes services, quantity information and performance periods.
Business data	Used for pricing, billing, settlement and payment management in service items and includes prices, discounts, surcharges, contract and sales agent assignments, services, bank details or payment cards. Services can be significant during pricing. If a sold-to party or advertiser has a suitable contract, a contract assignment can be created and a discount granted. Manual discounts can also be granted. See also: Contract Determination The system performs settlement for each billing dataset for a service item. See also: Generation of Billing Datasets

A service item record usually has one billing dataset and no sub-items or schedule lines.

See also: Generation of Sub-Items

The system generates the billing dataset. An advertising service is described in terms of billing and settlement in a billing dataset.

Integration

The item category and copying variant define the way in which sales of advertising services are replicated and controlled in the system.

The item category is specified when service items are created.

See also: Item Category

Copying variants are specified when service items are copied. Document flow can be used to control copying and copying variants.

See also: Copying of Document Items

Each service item has a status.

Status levels describe the processing status of a service item and determine the activities that you must perform during document processing to allow the system to perform production, billing and settlement for the item.