Billable Item in Demand Side Management

Definition

An item replicated as a one-off charge from a billing request item (BRI) in SAP CRM to SAP ERP Central Component (ECC).

Use

Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) creates one billable item for each BRI. Convergent invoicing is used to process the billable items, which are one-off charges containing the information from the BRIs. This information is required for invoicing, and includes the business partner and business agreement information, as well as the item category of the BRIs and the account assignment group from the incentive. The item category is mapped to a billing process and subprocess in FI-CA, which allows you to select the billing items when you create a billing document. For more information, see Creating Billing Documents for Financial Incentive Payments.

Structure

Billable items contain the following:

• Business partner ID

• Business agreement

• Amount to be paid and currency

• Tax code determined from BRI, typically a zero tax code

• Account assignment information

• DSM reference information:

  • Agreement ID

  • Measure item number

  • Incentive item number

  • Milestone billing ID or description for milestone or one-time payments

  • Program ID

  • Program type ID

  • Program profile ID

  • Incentive process type

You can also change the information SAP CRM sends to FI-CA. For more information, see Customizing for Customer Relationship Management under Industry-Specific Solutions  Utility Industries  Demand Side Management  Billing  BAdI: Integration of FI-CA for DSM.