Resource-related billing
Description
Resource-related billing is possible as of Release 3.0 in the following objects:
- sales order items
- service orders from plant maintenance
- internal orders assigned to a sales order
- projects
You can use the costs collected in WBS elements,
network activities, and orders for the project as the pricing basis.
Scope of functions
You use CO line items to create the conditions in the billing request, from which you will later generate your billing document. The CO information (such as cost element, CO activity) is coded, using rules defined in Customizing.
- Automatic pricing
Automatic pricing uses the conditions in the
sales and distribution (SD) system. This means that rules on prices specific
to this contract are taken into account.
The costs from the line items can be used as a
basis for pricing.
- Manual intervention in the billing process
If you need to evaluate several objects together
when billing, you have the option of excluding these objects individually from
the current billing run. The expenditure entered in the excluded items is not
included in the billing run.
You can change the billing request as
follows:
- You can reset items for later billing runs.
- You can change quantities.
- You can cancel items. These items are not included in later billing runs.
- Line item list
During billing, the system writes a history
(document flow). With a history you can see what proportions of an expenditure
item have gone into which billing document.
- USER exit
All the selected items are available in one USER
exit. The following functions are available:
- You can use specific criteria to exclude individual items.
- You can determine article numbers individually.
- Cost of sales
As part of the billing of actual expenditures,
the system can determine the cost of sales in the billing document. As it does
so, the expenditure proportions in this billing document are updated as cost
of sales.
- Using statistical key figures
In addition to the information on costs and
activities, you can opt to use statistical key figures to determine the amount
to be billed.
Change system parameters in customizing
In the Implementation Guide for the Project System, you must assign activity numbers to the cost elements or cost center/CO activity combinations.
Additional information- You can activate USER exits for resource-related billing.
Further notes
For additional information, refer to the Billing documentation in Sales and Distribution (SD).