Subscriber Range Table

Business Object (WS)

Definition

A subscriber range table is a range table assigned to a subscriber account to be shared by the charging contract related to this subscriber account. A subscriber range table is part of the master data related to the end customers of the service provider.

Technical Data

Software Product and Version	SAP Convergent Charging 5.0
Technical Details	Data Types
Version	0
Application Area	IS-CC

Business Context and Use

In SAP CC, the subscriber range table is recommended to design and configure the pricing logic that includes tiered pricing that must be based on customer data.

A subscriber range table contains customer specific data and is assigned to a subscriber account. You use a subscriber range table to share data between different charging contracts related to the same subscriber account. It is not defined in a pricing catalog of a service provider.

Business Partner Management

Your CRM application or another provisioning system manages master data related to the business partners and replicates data in SAP CC by maintaining some subscriber data for end customers of the service provider. Data includes: Subscriber accounts, subscriber mapping tables, subscriber range tables.

Order Capture and Contract Management

A CRM application or another provisioning system manages master data related to the order capture and contract management and replicates data in SAP CC by maintaining subscriber data for end customers. Data includes: Charging contracts (provider contracts), subscriber mapping tables, subscriber range tables.

Related Operations

You can use the following operations to perform actions on subscriber range tables:

• Search for range table classes as basis for new subscriber range tables
• Create or change a subscriber range table
• Search for subscriber range tables
• Cancel a subscriber range table

Features

A subscriber range table is a table of business data for mapping ranges of positive numbers to a set of output string or number values that represent prices, unit prices, or other credits. Some combinatorial rules can be applied to the output values to compute final value and supplementary values. Intelligent pricing logic is associated to compute values by designing basic or complex algorithms.

Life Cycle and Revision

A subscriber range table includes several revisions that define the business data for a specific period of time. SAP CC features change and revision management functions for the master data created via the Web Services. See the Create or change a subscriber range table operation.

Structure

The structure of a subscriber range table is specified by a range table class from the pricing catalog of the service provider.

A subscriber range table is defined by:

• An identifier, which is unique in the SAP CC system
• The identifier of the related range table class, which refers to an existing range table class
• The identifier of the subscriber account, which the subscriber range table relates to
• A text description, which contains a human readable definition of the charging logic implemented
• Additional information, which enables to store information used by an external system but not by SAP CC internal processes.
• A set of different versions (see revisions), which are related to the business data of the subscriber range table (validity period, sets of output values)

Each revision is defined by:

• A validity period, defined by a start date and an end date

  Notes

  • The start date of the first revision must not be set
  • The end date of the last revision must not be set
  • The very first revision has no validity period because it is unique
• A set of rows containing the range definitions and the corresponding output values

Each row defines a range and the corresponding output values:

• A range is simply defined by its upper bound; It can be unbounded according the configuration of the related range table class. The SAP CC system sorts the ranges.
• A set of output values (see column). Each column is defined by:
  • The name of a column defined in the related range table class
  • A value data which is one of the following:
    • A string
    • A number

Prerequisites

A range table class must be configured in the pricing catalog as part of the master data of the service provider. Use SAP CC Core Tool to configure this data.

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).