Billing Objects
Resource-related billing is possible in the following objects:
sales order items
maintenance service orders
internal orders assigned to a sales order
assembly orders
Projects
The explanations which follow cover two objects - sales orders and customer projects .
For sales orders, the revenue is copied onto the cost collector for sales order items
For customer projects, the revenue is copied to the corresponding project
Sales orders
As defined in resource-related billing, a sales order means a sales order with a cost collector .
Billing is carried out at sales order item level. This means that revenue is retained in the cost collector for the sales order item.
This sales order need not be wholly self-contained; more usually, the following objects can be assigned to individual sales order items:
Internal orders
Networks or production orders during assembly order processing.
Maintenance orders
Example
A typical example would be a regular maintenance contract, which may contain items from several different maintenance orders.
Only maintenance orders of order type
SV01
(service orders) can be billed without the corresponding sales order.
For further information on resource related billing of a service order, see the documentation on service management.
The sales order item and the order assigned to it, including the subordinate hierarchy objects form the billing hierarchy.
You assign an order to a sales order item by:
entering the corresponding sales order item when maintaining order master data for CO internal orders
maintaining the settlement rule correctly for PM orders. If the settlement is carried out for a sales order, the order is assigned to the sales order item specified.
In the assembly order......
Customer projects
The term "customer project" describes a sales order which is linked to one or more projects.
In customer projects, revenues are recorded in the assigned billing elements in the project itself, not in a sales order.
The billing element referenced in the sales order item is the highest element in a billing hierarchy. The billing hierarchy includes all objects (WBS elements, orders networks, network activities) hierarchically subordinate to the billing element.
Note
Sales order items should always be assigned to only one WBS element.
Otherwise, when creating the billing request, the system cannot determine to which sales order item the individual resource items are to be assigned. The system then assigns the resource items to the first order item found.