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Function documentationBEA-IPMO Application

 

OR settlement (license settlement) has been implemented using the IPMO application.

Integration

The BEA_IPMO application can process data from various sources according to the business process phase.

  • Confirmation data from the IPM confirmation is entered in the OR settlement using the rights sales contract.

  • The IPMO application can also communicate with the R/3 FI module and the Accrual Engine using the appropriate BDocs.

    Example Example

    OR contracts use paid revenues reported from FI and recognized revenues reported from the Accrual Engine as basic values. The system transfers these revenues to OR pricing, where the paid and recognized revenues required are calculated.

    End of the example.

  • A product sales report from an external system (or the R/3 SD module) or the CRM module can also transfer any number of different sales documents for the same OR key in the same settlement period.

Prerequisites

The IPMO Billing Engine application is only supplied with the “IP” royalties key.

To define your own attributes for characterizing the rights sold and defining outgoing royalties, you must make customer-specific enhancements to the IPMO application.

The procedure for doing so is described in the Customizing documentation under: Start of the navigation path Customer Relationship Management Next navigation step Industry-Specific Solutions Next navigation step Media Next navigation step Intellectual Property Management Next navigation step Billing and Settlement Next navigation step Outgoing Royalties Next navigation step Adjust Billing Engine Application for Settlement of Outgoing Royalties End of the navigation path.

Background

The CRMB Billing Engine application (CRM Billing) inherits its structure to the IPMI application (IR settlement, see also IBEA-IPMI Application). This application in turn inherits its structure to the IPMO application.

For further information on OR settlement, see Outgoing Royalties Settlement.