Defining a Date Profile for IPM 

The following table contains the SAP Customizing settings supplied for Intellectual Property Management. These settings provide you with examples of the Customizing requirements and ensure that the functions run correctly.

 

If you want to modify these settings according to the requirements of your media company, choose the following path in the SAP Implementation Guide (IMG): Customer Relationship Management ® Basic Functions ® Define Date Profile

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       1.      Analyze the SAP Customizing settings provided.

       2.      Copy the Customizing settings provided and create your own Customizing entries in the customer namespace.

 

Date Profile	Description
IPM_ACQU_CON	IPM acquisition contract item (difference-rel.)
IPM_ACQU_H	IPM acquisition contract header
IPM_ACQU_I	IPM acquisition contract item
IPM_ACQU_MG	IPM acquisition contract minimum guarantee item
IPM_CONF_H	IPM confirmation header
IPM_CONF_I	IPM confirmation item
IPM_SALES_H	IPM sales contract header
IPM_SALES_I	IPM sales contract item
IPM_SALES_MG	IPM sales contract minimum guarantee item

 

Note that assigning the following IPM-specific durations and date types is mandatory in certain situations:

●      You must assign the Actual Shipping Date for IP-Related Material (IPM_SHIPACT) and Required Shipping Date for IP-Related Material(IPM_SHIPPL) date types to the date profile for the item category, if an item is involved for which you want to maintain data for shipping an IP-related material in the license sales contract.

●      You must assign the Delay Date Reminder(IPM_REMIDURA) duration and the Delay Date Confirmation (IPM_DELAYDAT) date rule to the date profile for a confirmation-relevant item, if you want to use the reminder function in the license sales contract.

●      You must assign the Revenue Recognition Date(IPM_RR_DATE) date type to the date profile for the item category if a revenue-recognition item category is used in the license sales contract.

●      You must assign the Start of Confirmation Period (IPM_CONFFROM), End of Confirmation Period (IPM_CONFTO) and Exchange Rate Date(IPM_EXC_DATE) date types to the date profile for the confirmation item category.

●      You must assign the Billing Document Creation Date for Accrual (IPM_ACCR_INV) and Periodicity for Accruals (IPM_ACCR_PER) date types to the date profile for the acquisition contract item categories for which you want to create accruals.

●      You must assign the Exercise Option From (IPM_OPTIONFR) and Exercise Option to (IPM_OPTIONTO) date types to the date profile for a rights-relevant license acquisition or license service contract item category, if you want to generate the rights owned in the Intellectual Property on the basis of the contract data.

●      The IPM_ITMSTART and IPM_ITMEND date rules are used in the date profile for license sales contract items for the Contract Start or Contract End date types.  During contract revision, they enable a confirmation-relevant contract item to be terminated early if a continuation item (which may have a different IP) is created. To do so, you must bring the contract end forward in the item to be terminated and then execute the Revision (Non-Retroactive) or Revision ITD (Retroactive) action. This completes the terminated item and creates a new item by copying. The IPM_ITMSTART date rule sets the contract start for the new item to a day after the contract end of the completed item. The l IPM_ITMEND date rule sets the contract end for the new item to the contract end in the contract header.

The contract start of an unrevised item or an item that is not confirmation-relevant sets IPM_ITMSTART to the contract start in the contract header.

·         The IPM_CRREPOST date type contains the date on which the reposting in Accounting is performed in the case of a contract revision. This date type is not significant if a license sales contract item has not been revised. When this item is revised, the system reads the reposting date from this date type for the old item and uses this as the value date for cancelling the associated billing documents. Cancellations are then transferred to Accounting with the reposting date as the posting date (and not with the same posting date as the cancelled billing document, as is the case in the standard system). During contract revision (if a corresponding action for the contract item is executed), the date type IPM_CRREPOST is determined again. This is because the associated standard date rule Current Date would set the reposting date to the revision date (even though the respective current date was set when the item was created).
The billing date for the new item can also be set to the reposting date using customer-specific date rules.
Revenues in the Accrual Engine are also written off on this date. The system uses the validity end for the accrual object if this is later than the reposting date.

·         The following dates or durations must be assigned to the date profile for the royalties item used for reserve creation and release:

o        Reserve creation end (IPM_RSVCRETO): Mandatory for all types of reserve.

o        Reserve release start (IPM_RSVRELFR): Mandatory for reserves with distributed release

o        Reserve release end (IPM_RSVRELTO): Optional for all types of reserves. All remaining reserves are released with the last BRI before the end of the validity period for the royalties item as a default.

o        Reserve period (IPM_RSVPER): Mandatory for reserves with rolling release