Determination of Billing Datasets

Use

This function allows you to determine billing datasets.

Integration

It is part of Sales and is available to you in the Contract menu as follows:

Function	Screen	Menu path
Create or change contracts	Business data	Environment Billing datasets
Monitor contracts	Initial screen	Monitoring Billing datasets

Prerequisites

You want to determine all billing datasets that could not be assigned to a contract and create these contract assignments manually.

Example Example

A contract has been created for a media customer and the No over-fulfillment radio button has been selected. The contract is almost fulfilled.

The media customer places an order for which several billing datasets are generated. It is only possible to assign some of these billing datasets to the contract, since it is already fulfilled. The system does not assign the remaining billing datasets.

If you create a new contract for the media customer, you can determine the billing datasets that have not been assigned and assign these to the new contract manually. Alternately, you can use the Save when assigning function.

See also: Contract Editing

You specified the date of the first placement as the start of the validity period when you created the contract. The system is unable to determine the start of the contract validity period due to a blocking conflict. Contract determination is terminated.

Billing datasets that are generated for this order cannot be assigned to the contract. You must determine the billing datasets that cannot be assigned and assign them manually.

End of the example.

If you change the predefined selection criteria, you can determine billing datasets that have already been assigned to a contract and create parallel assignments.

You have created contracts, entered orders and made all the relevant settings in Customizing:

Define	Menu path
Contract determination	SAP Media Advertising Management Sales Contract ...

Features

This function consists of a selection screen and a display screen.

Selection

The following selection criteria are available to you on the selection screen:

Organizational data
Order data
Contract-relevant requirements
Assignment status of billing datasets
Technical settings

You must specify the sales organization, distribution channel and division during selection. Selection is sales area-dependent.

If you access the function when creating or changing contracts, the system preassigns the Advertiser and Without contract assignment selection criteria.

If you do not change these default settings, the system determines all billing datasets that could not be assigned to a contract in which the contract holder performs the advertiser role.
If you do change these settings and select the And those with contract assignments radio button, the system determines all billing datasets in which the contract holder performs the advertiser role. If you create parallel assignments, you want to determine all billing datasets that could be assigned to a contract.

If you access the Determine billing datasets function from contract monitoring, the system does not preassign the Advertiser selection criterion.

Display

The system displays billing datasets that match the selection criteria in a table on the display screen. The table is sorted in ascending order by advertisers and order numbers. You can however use the Sort ascending and Sort descending functions to sort this differently.

The system displays the advertiser, order number, item number, billing dataset number, item type, sold-to party, date, booking unit, content component, gross contract and rate indicators for each billing dataset in the table.

Editing functions

In addition to the table editing functions, the following functions are available to you for editing billing datasets and contracts:

Function	Use
Edit contract assignments	You want to assign one or more billing datasets to a contract manually. By choosing: Goto Contract assignments , you access the Change Contract Assignments screen where the system displays existing contract assignments. To create new contract assignments, choose and specify the contract, order, item and billing dataset number for which the assignment is to be made. You can display or save a contract assignment that has been created. You can display the contract determination log to discover why a contract assignment has not been created. See also: Display Contract Assignments
Subsequent contract determination	You can perform subsequent contract determination for the billing datasets you selected. This also applies to billing datasets that have already been billed if the Include billed billing dataset indicator is selected on the selection screen. The system deals with existing manual assignments according to the information that has been entered on the selection screen.
Display contract determination logs	You have attempted to assign a billing dataset to a contract and want to display the reasons why this was not possible in a log.