Catalog Management

Process Component (Web Service)

Definition

Management of the commercial products by combinations of charge plan classes and refill plan classes and partial management of the pricing catalog stored in SAP Convergent Charging for a service provider company and its end-customer services.

Technical Data

Software Product and Version	SAP Convergent Charging 2021
Technical Details	catalog
Namespace	http://schema.catalog.v3.ws.highdeal.com/
Proxy Instance in SAP CC System	Updater
Web Service Version	3
WSDL	https://<UPDATER_INSTANCE_HOST>:<UPDATER_WS_PORT_NUMBER>/v3/catalog?wsdl
Endpoint	https://<UPDATER_INSTANCE_HOST>:<UPDATER_WS_PORT_NUMBER>/v3/catalog
Application Area	IS-CC

Business Context and Use

This process component enables you to consult the charge plan classes and refill plan classes released and stored in SAP CC to specify the commercial products managed and stored in your CRM application.

This process component enables you to create and maintain some elements (business data tables) of the pricing catalog that is stored in SAP CC for a service provider. Basically you configure manually the pricing catalog with the SAP CC Core Tool user interface. Your CRM application can directly manage mapping tables or range tables in the pricing catalog stored in SAP CC. You implement this process component to replicate and synchronize some pricing information extracted from your CRM, converted, and configured in SAP CC. Your integration takes into account the life cycle of this data to ensure the overall consistency of both systems.

Important Note

This version is a new version of this process component. It replaces the former version 2.

The version 3 of the "Catalog Management" Web Service provides you with two new operations to:

• Create or modify range sets of a range table 
• Cancel range sets of a range table

This version implements a new version of the following operations:

• Find range table classes
• Find range tables
• Create or change a range table
• Find mapping table classes
• Find mapping tables
• Create or change a mapping table

It is now possible to add an agreement ID to the range and mapping tables.

This version removes the following operation:

• Create mapping table

Consider the old versions of this process component when some WS operations are already implemented in your SAP system landscape. Refer to the following versions:

• Version 2
• Version 1
• Version 0

Product Modeling

Your CRM application or another provisioning system manages master data related to the modeling of commercial products. SAP CC extends this master data with pricing information to dynamically compute price amounts related to the usage of a customer service. This information is stored in a pricing catalog owned by the service provider.

CRM retrieves pricing information stored in SAP CC to combine charge plans in the definition of a commercial product. CRM can maintain or replicate some pricing data stored in SAP CC in a pricing catalog of the service provider: mapping tables and range tables .

Consider the following sequence:

• Your integration can create and maintain a mapping table or rows to enrich the pricing catalog of a service provider
• Your integration can also create and maintain a range table to enrich the pricing catalog in case of pricing logic including tiered pricing
• Your integration must consult the released charge plan classes and released refill plan classes to model some commercial products by combining charge plans and refill plans from the pricing catalog

Included Service Operations

The following operations are related to the consultation of the pricing catalog of a service provider to be able to combine charge plans and refill plans to commercial products:

• Find the description summary of a charge plan class
• Find charge plan classes
• Find the description summary of a refill plan class
• Find refill plan classes

When you need to implement spending status monitoring in your system landscape, use:

• Find monitoring plan class descriptions
• Find monitoring plan classes

The following operations are related to the management of mapping tables:

• Find mapping table classes
• Find mapping tables
• Create or change a mapping table
• Cancel a mapping table
• Create or change a mapping table row
• Cancel mapping table rows
• Create or change rows of mapping tables in bundle mode
• Cancel rows of mapping tables in bundle mode

The following operations are related to the management of range tables:

• Find range table classes
• Find range tables
• Create or change a range table
• Cancel a range table
• Create or change range sets in a range table
• Cancel range sets in a range table

See here the technical details about these service operations.

Related Process Components

• Customer Master Data (Business Partner Management):
  • Subscriber Account Management
  • Subscriber Mapping Table Management
  • Subscriber Range Table Management
• Customer Master Data (Business Agreement Management): Subscriber Account Management
• Customer Master Data (Order Capture and Contract Management):
  • Charging Contract Management
  • Subscriber Mapping Table Management
  • Subscriber Range Table Management

Integration

There is no specific integration information.

Constraints and Integrity Conditions

There is no specific constraint.

Notes on SAP CC Implementation

You must have installed and configured the SAP CC Core Server system.

Configuration

Consult the SAP CC Configuration and Implementation Guide to know the necessary configuration or Customizing of the SAP CC system.

Before implementing SAP Convergent Charging in your SAP system landscape, you must configure the systems and the data (master data, business data).