Telco, Enhanced Invoicing
Technical Data
Technical Name of Business Function |
TEL_CONV_INV_1 |
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 - Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (IS-T-INV) |
Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition |
Telco, Invoicing (CONVERGENT_INVOICING) Telco, Revenue Management (RM_CA) Telco, Enhanced Revenue Mgmt (TEL_CA_1) |
You can use this business function to invoice even large numbers of billing documents from upstream billing systems, such as Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. Telco, Enhanced Invoicing contains important new and enhanced functions for the business function Telco, Invoicing, which provide you with a wide range of additional options and allow you to structure your work more flexibly.
If you activate the Telco, Enhanced Invoicing business function, you can for instance:
● Modify and release cash security deposits
● Transfer post open items in any contract accounts to the contract account to be invoiced
● Create dispute cases manually or automatically.
● Perform plausibility checks for the source document and the invoicing document
Integration
The Telco, Enhanced Invoicing business function is part of the Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable component. It is part of the invoice creation process in SAP ERP and is integrated in the specialist application portfolio for your industry-specific component.
The Telco, Enhanced Invoicing business function extends the functions in the existing Telco, Invoicing business function:
● 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
You can enhance the functions in this business function with SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BI Content Add-On 3 SP 06.
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, Revenue Management (RM_CA)
● Telco, Enhanced Revenue Management (TEL_CA_1)
You make the system settings required to activate the invoicing functions and clarification in invoicing in the Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Customizing settings.
Features
● Release/Adjust Cash Security Deposits
You can use the new invoicing function to:
○ Release cash security deposit credits for clearing and payment
○ Adjust cash security deposit amounts (for instance according to the consumption pattern of the customer).
● Transfer Open Items
You can use this new function in the invoicing process to transfer post open items from any contract accounts to the contract account to be invoiced.
The posting items created from the transfer can be processed subsequently during invoicing and for example cleared during account maintenance for invoicing.
● Activate Document Items That Were Posted Prior to Invoicing
The selection option Selection Using Invoicing Order has been added to the existing invoicing function Activate Document Items Posted Prior to Invoicing.
If specific open items to be activated are also to be able to trigger invoicing, they must have an invoicing order with source document category ACTIT.
You can create the invoicing order automatically when the open item to be activated is posted.
● Clarification
You can create dispute cases manually or automatically in various invoicing processes in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. A dispute process is available to you for asynchronous manual subsequent processing of dispute cases. You can also clarify dispute cases automatically.
You can use the new invoicing functions Source Document Plausibility Checks and Invoicing Document Plausibility Checks to determine and perform checks for source documents or invoicing documents, which can lead to the creation of a dispute case.
Contract account checks and error messages in the invoicing process can trigger the creation of a dispute case. The dispute case is created automatically during mass creation. You can make a decision about creation of a dispute case in dialog processing during individual creation.
Dispute cases can be clarified automatically during the invoicing process.
When billing documents are transferred from external billing systems using an BAPI or IDoc-interface, billing documents can be checked, identified as implausible and dispute cases can be created.
During the analysis of the invoicing orders, you can check the source documents and create dispute cases for the source document or the contract account manually.
During clarification processing in dialog, you can edit and complete dispute cases. It supplies the clarification worklist, supports your individual selection of dispute cases and displays data for the dispute case on a detail screen.
For more information, see the documentation in the SAP Help Portal about Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.