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Convergent Billing
Welcome to this blog post on Convergent Billing (1MC)
Collective processing allows to create single follow up document for multiple preceding documents. For example, create a single invoice for multiple deliveries or create single deliveries for multiple sales orders based on the specific common characteristics. These characteristics are Payer, billing date, Terms of Payment. Up until now these preceding documents are from the sales application area.
SAP S/4 HANA now provide functionality to combine billing data from other SAP application area as well as from external data source to create a single invoice and present to customer. In order to create single invoice both SAP application and external data set must have common characteristics such as sold to party and sales organization.
We can create single invoice out of below process
- Create billing documents using data from Professional Services and external billing data
- Create billing documents using data from Sell from Stock and external billing data
- Create billing documents using data from Sell from Stock, Professional Services, and external billing data
External billing document request object used to create billing data from external system to our SAP S/4 HANA system.
Scenario – For demo purpose In this case we are combining a sell from stock invoice and external billing together and form a single invoice.
1. Sell from Stock
Sales Order : 22311
Subsequent Delivery document 80012879 is created for the order 22311
2. External Billing document Request : I have used ‘Test Billing Document Request API’ for testing purpose.
3.Open Create billing document app (Billing Due list)
Search for documents based on below parameter in below case we have gone with billing date.
Selected the Delivery document and External Billing document request for which you want to create a single invoice and click on “Create Billing Documents” tab from the Menu bar.
Select the Billing Document Type and Billing Date and click on Ok
A single Invoice is created having both the items from Delivery and External billing. We can navigate to Process flow tab as below for details info about the complete cycle.
Conclusion
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Nice blog post on this very new topic !!
Thank you Shekhar
Very well written and helpful blog!
Thank you Izabelle
Thanks Sandeep Thakur Very nicely documented
Hi All,
SAP also had the General Billing Interface to be able to post External Billing Documents. However, this feature would directly create a billing document and did not have the functionality to create a billing document request and then merge the same with the billing document being created. I wanted to seek feedback from the members on the following:
a. What are other advantages with SAP Convergent invoicing apart from a billing document request creation as against using External Billing Interface ?
b. In principle, you could create a sales order from the external source with an order related billing and combine the items in a single invoice. What other specific advantages would SAP convergent billing provide ?
Would appreciate your comments / views
Thanks and Regards
Rohit Zalani
Hi Sandeep,
Very well narrated write-up on Convergent Billing (1MC).
Is it possible to throw some light on few possible scenarios as well?
If so, then would be great.
BR/
Minakshi Karan
Hello Sandeep,
We are exploring S/4 HANA Service, Can we integrate with Convergent Invoicing? My requirement is, Every 5000 Km car runs, customer will be charged for Servicing
at the rate of 5 USD per Km X actual Km Run on serviceing day.
e.g. Customer came on 6000 km, he will be charged 30000 USD. Can this be managed in Convergent Invoicing?
thanks
Bidhu