Telco,
Billing
Technical Data
Technical Name of Business Function |
TEL_EDR_BILLING |
Type of Business Function |
Industry Business Function |
Available As Of |
SAP Enhancement Package 2 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage |
Utilities/Waste&Recycl./Telco |
Application Component |
SAP Telecommunications - Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (IS-T-BI) |
Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition |
Telco, Invoicing (CONVERGENT_INVOICING) Telco, Enhanced Invoicing (TEL_CONV_INV_1) Telco, Revenue Management (RM_CA) Telco, Enhanced Revenue Mgmt (TEL_CA_1) |
This business function provides you with a powerful and flexible function package for billing event detail records (EDRs). EDRs provide compact log data on individual usage examples, such as for a telephone call, a text message, a route section that is subject to toll or goods provided over the Internet.
Billing is fully integrated in SAP Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable and ensures that EDRs can be transferred and processed from external rating systems even if extremely large data quantities are involved. Billing aggregates the data transferred according to the service products defined in the respective service contracts and on the basis of billing cycles that you can select. Integrating invoicing of the billing documents created is possible using the connected invoicing function in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.
Integration
The Telco, Billing business function includes the new component Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, which is part of the invoice creation process in SAP ERP and has been integrated in the specialist application portfolio for your industry-specific component:
● Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
Transfer EDRs, aggregation, billing document
● Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
Invoicing, create invoice
● Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
Process the open items associated with the bill
Prerequisites
You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:
Type of Component |
Component |
Software Component |
IS-UT 600 |
Software Component |
FI-CA 600 |
Software Component |
SAP_APPL 600 |
Software Component |
EA-APPL 600 |
You have activated the following business functions:
● Telco, Invoicing (CONVERGENT_INVOICING)
● Telco, Enhanced Invoicing (TEL_CONV_INV_1)
● Telco, Revenue Management (RM_CA)
● Telco, Enhanced Revenue Management (TEL_CA_1)
You make the system settings required to activate the billing functions in the Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Customizing settings.
Features
● Import billing accounts from an external CRM System using a Business Application Programming Interface.
● Import EDRs from external rating systems using a BAPI interface
You can process EDRs with various categories. Each EDR category has a defined data structure. SAP supplies the standard EDR category TOLLCOLL for toll collection. EDRs for the EDR category TOLLCOLL can be transferred from external rating systems using the BAPI BAPI_EDR_TCOLL_CREATEMULTIPLE. A comprehensive enhancement concept supports the definition of project-specific EDR categories.
● Creation of billing orders
You can use the billing cycles available during billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable to bill billing accounts (such as monthly on the 15th day of the month). To do so, you generate billing orders that are executed by the billing process. The billing order refers to a contract account here.
● Billing of billing orders
When a billing order is executed, the system bills the billing accounts with the same billing cycle that are assigned to a contract account. When a billing account is billed, a billing period is created, which defines which EDRs in the billing account are to be billed.
In addition to billing EDRs, billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable also supports billing of non-EDR-based billing elements, such as a basic charge for a service contract that is based on a contract validity period or the charge associated with providing a device. You define billing account items for non-EDR-based billing in the corresponding billing accounts here.
For more information, see the documentation in the SAP Help Portal about Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.