Billing Plan for Confirmations (Sales Contracts)
Periods in license sales contracts with variable license fees, to which confirmations are made in the license usage confirmation are created from the billing request items (BRIs) generated in the billing plan and their settlement period.
Integration
Use the following item categories in the Customizing settings provided or item categories defined similarly in the customer name space in license sales contracts for the billing plan for confirmations:
License sales |
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An item cannot be transferred to billing until it has been confirmed completely.
Prerequisites
You have made the necessary Customizing settings described in the SAP Solution Manager
for the License Sales, License Usage Confirmation
and Incoming Royalties Billing
processes.
Note
If data on license revenues is to be included in the calculation and settlement of license acquisitions, you must also make settings for the License Acquisition
and Outgoing Royalties Settlement
processes.
Features
The system creates a confirmation main item in the confirmation document for each billing request item (BRI) generated during creation in the confirmation follow-up process
. The settlement period corresponds to the BRI in the confirmation period for the confirmation
item. Rights dimensions in the item assigned above the BRI are also inherited by the confirmation item.
The system generates a BRI, which is assigned below the royalties item and has its own conditions and status, for each billing date.
The billing request items in the sales document are billed on the respective billing date. The system defines the amount to be billed from the royalties (price agreements) recorded and the confirmed data that is valid for the item.
Settlement cannot be performed for the BRI until the confirmation period has been confirmed completely.
Note
If you want to perform settlement even though the confirmation is not complete, set the status of the billing request item to Released for Billing
manually. Furthermore, the system sets the status of a BRI automatically to Released for Billing
as
soon as the following BRI is released for billing.
The difference calculation is used during settlement. For more information, see Billing Plans in Intellectual Property Management.
Note
BRIs must be billed in strict chronological order according to their billing creation date. Each BRI is based on all values accumulated to the current point in time (ITD: inception to date).
A confirmation-relevant royalties item must be defined as being relevant to the difference calculation (ITD value) in the IPM-specific item category Customizing settings.
Pricing is not performed and there is no net value for royalties items that are relevant to the difference calculation. These are both performed for the lower-level BRIs.
The net value of the last BRI (according to the billing creation date) is used as a replacement for the net value of the royalties item and in fact becomes the royalties item. It is copied into the header total (but not into the royalties item).
Caution
Most header billing plans are not supported in Intellectual Property Management. The only exception is the header billing plan for multiple payees.