Prepaid Account Initial State Management

Business Context and Use

This process component is used in a migration context of end customer related mater data (subscriber data). You want to migrate customer data from a former system to SAP Convergent Charging. This process component enables you to finalize the migration of subscriber accounts by restoring prepaid balances to their appropriate initial values. This initial state of a prepaid account is composed of:

• The balance (amount and currency) of the prepaid account

Customer Data Migration

A former system manages master data related to the end customers of a service provider. You want to migrate this data to SAP Convergent Charging.

• You must extract this information
• You must implement the conversion of this data into master data (and data models) provided and managed by SAP CC before any activity:
  • Business partners (subscriber accounts, subscriber mapping tables )
  • Business agreements (prepaid accounts and external postpaid accounts)
  • Contracts (charging contracts, subscriber mapping tables )
• You must determine the initial states of the prepaid accounts and the initial states of the migrated charging contracts.
• You must implement the bulk provisioning of this converted data to SAP CC according to the following sequence:
  • Create or change subscriber accounts in bundle mode
  • Create or change external accounts in bundle mode
  • Create or change prepaid accounts in bundle mode
  • Change the initial state of prepaid accounts in bundle mode
  • Create the necessary the subscriber mapping tables
  • Create the necessary charging contracts in bundle mode (or in mass mode)
  • Change the initial state of charging contracts in bundle mode
  Two different processing modes are provided for these bulk operations: The bundle mode (all-or-none) or the mass mode (most). Determine the mode recommended for your business requirements.
• Switch the business traffic to SAP Convergent Charging

Included Service Operations

The following operations are related to the management of the initial state of prepaid accounts in bulk:

• Change the initial state of prepaid accounts in bundle mode (all-or-none)
• Change the initial state of prepaid accounts in mass mode (most)

• Change the initial state of a prepaid account

See here the technical details about these service operations.

Related Process Compoments

• Customer Master Data (Business Partner Management): Subscriber Mapping Table Management
• Data Migration (Order Capture and Contract Management): Charging Contract Initial State Management

Prerequisites

You have determined the customer data that must be replicated to or synchronized with subscriber data stored in SAP Convergent Charging.

Integration

There is no specific integration information.

Constraints and Integrity Conditions

In a customer data migration context, you must ensure that no process can corrupt the master data been migrated. Until the end of the complete migration, make sure that:

• No business traffic acquired from mediation systems can trigger the charging services related to the customer data been migrated
• No activation process of periodic and one-off fees can be manually or automatically triggered by a user or a connected system

Do not use this process component and its included operations to implement online refilling services. Use the relevant process component Refilling provided by the SAP CC Web Services.