In Advanced Order Processing and Billing, you work with standard sales documents, namely customer orders and contracts, as well as standard Sales and Distribution processing functions, such as Resource-Related Billing .

The Advanced Order Processing and Billing transaction, VACB, has been included in automatic roleSAP_EP_LO_SD_VA00. For more information, see SAP Library under  SAP ERP Central Component SAP enhancement package 3 for SAP ERP 6.0 Roles Automatic Roles , and SAP Note No. 1000291.

BI Content is available for Advanced Order Processing and Billing . For more information, see SAP Library under  SAP Netweaver BI Content SAP Netweaver 2007 BI Content Add-On 3 SP08 Customer Relationship Management ERP Analytics Contract & Billing .

Extended Contract Maintenance allows you to create and maintain an extended contract for a sales document. You use extended contracts to document and track information not available in standard sales processing, as well as to maintain the information necessary for advanced order processing and billing functions. These include, for example, modification management, fund allocation, and alternative billing structures.

Modification Management allows you to track changes made to specific contract data in a modification history, to apply changes with specific validity dates, and to view different versions of the extended contract over time.

Enhanced Resource-Related Billing allows you to apply inception-to-date (ITD) processing during resource-related billing. You can also integrate alternative billing structures, funding information, and funding limits, as well as the validity periods of such information.

Alternative Document Billing Structures (DBS) allow you to separate logistical planning and execution from billing by making it possible to assign WBS elements across contracts and project definitions on a percentage basis.

Fund Assignment allows you to allocate the budgets of different customer departments on a percentage basis or by order of priority, and to ensure that these budgets are not exceeded during billing. For example, a customer department has a total allocatable budget of USD 400,000 for a particular contract item, and has already been invoiced for USD 340,000. This means that subsequent invoices must not exceed USD 60,000 for this item. Funding information is subject to modification management by default (see above) and can also be controlled using effectivity dates.

Funding Limits allow you to ensure that billing is only possible within defined limits. For example, the customer has a total allocatable budget of USD 500,000 for a particular contract item. However, the contract runs over several years and only a maximum of USD 250,000 may be spent in the first year.