Make Billing Engine Settings for the SAP FI Connection 

Use

The Billing Engine is used to perform incoming royalties billing and outgoing royalties settlement for Intellectual Property Management. To ensure that this data is available to SAP ERP Accounting, you must make the settings described in the following Customizing sections.

Prerequisites

You have made the general settings described previously for the Billing Engine from SAP CRM in the Solution Manager.

Procedure

Customizing Activity (SAP CRM System)	Setting
Customer Relationship Management ® Billing ® Integration ® Transferring Billing Documents to Accounting ® Transfer to Accounts Receivable Accounting (FI-AR) ® Assign Revenue Accounts for Sales Transactions	Assign a general ledger account to the purchasing and sales organization for each condition type. The other fields can all contain the value *). The general ledger account must be the accrual account in the Accrual Engine for the sales example.
Customer Relationship Management ® Billing ® Integration ® Transferring Billing Documents to Accounting ® Transfer to Accounts Receivable Accounting (FI-AR) ® Assign Document Types	You can use the RV and AB (reversal) document types for the IPMI application. You can use the KR and KA (reversal) document types for the IPMO application.

 

Integration with SAP CO-PA

More detailed information on this is available in the Statistical Condition Types for SAP
CO-PA section of the Defining Condition Types for IPM document.

 

BAdI

The IPM_ACC_IF implementation must be activated for the BAdI Influencing Revenue Account Determination  BILL_ACC_IF (in the Implementation Guide under: Customer Relationship Management ® Industry-Specific Solutions ® Media ® Intellectual Property Management ® Billing and Settlement ® Integration with Accounting ® Transfer to Accounts Payable Accounting (FI-AP) ® BAdI Influencing Revenue Account Determination ), so that posting with special general ledger indicators and therefore revenue distribution are possible.