License Acquisition Contract (Billing Items)

Technical name: 0IPM_C05

Use

The InfoCube License Acquisition Contract (Billing Items) retrieves all the items relevant to billing from the license acquisition contracts (except the service contracts) and their contract attributes (such as validity period).

Billing-relevant items are available in this InfoCube. This means it is possible to analyze rights in the license acquisition contract based on the revenue plan. In contrast, the rights acquired are available in the InfoCube 0IPM_C06 License Acquisition Contract (Rights-Relevant Items).

The license acquisition contract stipulates (in some cases, regular) payments that can be determined according to the terms of the contract and that often depend on other external influencing factors, such as the proportional payment of license fees to a licensor (for example, an author) as a result of values (such as quantity sold) confirmed by a licensee (for example, a publisher) for a license sales contract.

The billing-relevant items in a license acquisition contract are used for settlement of the license acquisition contract and are assigned the attributes required for this purpose, as well as in some cases value data. Revenue distribution cannot be performed for the billing-relevant items in an acquisition contract. This means it is not possible to provide revenue distribution value data or, consequently, the rights characteristics on which the data is based, for evaluation purposes. The rights characteristics in a license acquisition contract are only available in the rights-relevant items in the license acquisition contract.

Evaluations of revenue distribution values are available for outgoing royalties settlement for the license acquisition contract.

 

Please note that if subsequent changes are made to items that have already been billed in a license acquisition contract (contract revision), these modified items are assigned the status Rejected. The system generates a new item that is to be valid from this point with the contract change characteristics. The billed item that has already been modified loses its validity, and can no longer be observed during evaluations in SAP BW. Queries that evaluate the contracts on hand for license acquisition must therefore exclude the item status Rejected (0STAONESYS8 = 10) by means of a filter.

 

The following values can be used to perform evaluations in the InfoCube:

·        Net value of contract

The net value only provides useful results in evaluations if the item in question does not require difference calculation for the net value (for example, flat fee payments or milestone billing). If the license sales contract has been billed, the billed net value is available using a cumulation value (see “Billed Net Value”).

 

·        Confirmation values that can be transferred from the license usage confirmation.

Key figures for the confirmed values are made available according to the IPM Customizing settings for IPM cumulation values These are as follows:

¡        Confirmed number of runs

 

 

·        Additional cumulation values

Key figures, which are made available as cumulation values according to the IPM Customizing settings for IPM

¡        Billed net value

¡        Net value from recoupment for advances
The current value from recoupment between an advance and the royalties item is made available in this key figure.

 

The following are also available as key figures for determining the contract duration.

·        License start

·        License end

 

The number of documents and items they contain can be determined using the following key figures:

·        Number of document headers

·        Number of document items

 

 

When using the key figures to determine the number of document headers and document items, please note that you must restrict the key figure to the characteristic Record Type (0IPM_RECTYP). If you select the number of document headers, this is indicated by the entry "H" (header) in the record type. If you select the number of item records, this is indicated by the entry "I" (item) in the record type. If you specify the characteristic “V” (value) for the record type, this applies to all records (value recurds) that are not used to count the header and item documents.

 

This InfoCube is updated from the ODS object License Acquisition Contract (Billing Items). The distinction between the license acquisition contract (business transaction type IPME) and the service contract (IPMB) is made when the objects are updated using the business transaction type (InfoObject 0CRM_PRCTYP) for the acquisition document.