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 Determining Resources to be Billed

In resource-related billing, individual materials, internal company services and costs are passed on to the customer.

You can access expenditure information:

  • from the CO line items for costs and services (in the standard settings)

  • using the statistical key figures when billing is carried out for measured amounts, if the statistical key figure is set in the billing request

  • using the additional information from other data structures contained in the customer enhancement.

The resource items determined are assigned to sales order items using service materials. Internal company services and costs are represented as activities. You define activities for the corresponding application (internal orders, maintenance, project system) in the Implementation Guide for cost elements cost center/activity type combinations statistical key figures

If you want resource-related billing to take these activities into account, you need to create activity materials for them.

During billing the system converts the cost centers/activity type combinations contained in the line items for the corresponding service and they are copied into the billing request. There, the activities form the basis of pricing and text determination. An item is created in the billing request for each of the resource items determined.

Information on the quantity and cost is also copied to the billing request from the individual items.

If the system can not determine a quantity for the service, then it automatically assigns quantity 1 (e.g., converting costs into activities).

The cost information is copied to a special condition type. Valuating individual resource items is carried out using the conditions set in the Implementation Guide.

For further information on pricing, see Start of the navigation path Sales and Distribution Next navigation step Conditions and Pricing. End of the navigation path

Note Note

If a billing document has already been created for an object, then the system checks which items have already been billed when creating a new billing request.

In the billing request, the system only copies items that have not yet been billed.

If only a partial quantity was billed, only the remaining quantity is copied into the billing request.

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Customer Enhancement for Performance-Related Billing

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