AC245 SAP Convergent Invoicing

Course Description:

AC245 SAP Convergent Invoicing lets participants and students understand Characteristics of Billing and Invoicing. It lets you know better about Contracts, Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA). Executing Billing and Invoicing is easy after this course. Integration of Billing and Invoicing is explained by our experienced subject matter experts.

Target Audience:

1) Project Managers

2) Business Process Modeling Team

3) Administrators

4) Consultants

Prerequisites:

1) Basic Understanding of Consume-to-Cash Process

2) AC240

Software Release:

SAP ERP 6.0, EHP 7

Course Content:

Lesson 1 Introduction in Billing for High Volume Industries

In this Introductory lesson participants learn

1.1: Introduction:

a) Understand basic concepts of Billing

b) Understand Business motivation behind SAP Convergent Invoicing

c) Consume to Cash Process

d) Able to define Billable Item

1.2: Architecture of SAP Convergent Invoicing:

a) Business Context of SAP Convergent Charging

b) Architecture of Billing and Invoicing

c) Business Process in Billing and Invoicing Framework

Lesson 2 Master Data/FI-CA:

In this lesson participants are entitled to learn

2.1: Business Partner Concept for Convergent Invoicing:

a) History and Business Context of SAP Convergent Charging

b) Architecture of Billing and Invoicing in SAP Context

c) Business Process in Billing and invoicing framework

2.2: Contract Accounts for Convergent Invoicing:

a) Contract Account Creation

2.3: Posting Open Items in FI-CA and FI-GL Integration:

a) Concept of documents and processes in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable

b) Integration Process

c) Accounts Balance to Display

d) Understanding BITs as Input Data in Billing Process for FI-CA document postings

2.4: Event Technology:

a) Customer Specific requirements in SAP System

Lesson 3 Billable Items Management:

In this lesson participants learn

3.1: Billable Items Management:

a) Understanding the requirements for Billing Process

3.2: Billable Item Management:

a) Billable Item Concept

b) Storage of Billable Items

3.3: Creating and Monitoring Billable Items:

a) Context of Billable Item Management

b) Generating Billable items

c) Displaying Billable Items

Lesson 4 Billing Process:

4.1: Concepts of Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable:

a) Considering Billing Sub Process

b) Identifying important elements in Billable Items

4.2: Billing Process Execution:

a) Monitoring Document Structure

b) Running Billing Process

4.3: Scheduling in Billing and Invoicing:

a) Scheduling Rule

b) Influencing Attributes

c) Sequenced Process (Scheduling Billing and Scheduled Invoicing)

4.4: Billing Process Configuration for Selection, Grouping and Aggregation:

a) Know how to control billable items selected for billing process

b) Define grouping of billing units

c) Aware of Aggregated Billable items

Lesson 5 Invoicing Process:

In this lesson participants learn

5.1: Invoicing Overview and Execution:

a) General Structure of invoicing process in FI-CA

b) Executing Invoicing Process

5.2: Invoicing Process Configuration:

a) Controlling Source Documents

b) Define Groupings

c) Invoice Process Scheduling

d) Calling Additional Functions

5.3: Invoicing Reversal and Billing Reversal:

a) Invoice Reversal Process

b) Billing Reversal Process

c) Process Restart

Lesson 6 Invoice Functions:

In this lesson participants learn

6.1 Invoicing Functions:

a) Defining Discounts

b) Collective Invoicing

c) Invoice Creation

d) Open Items Activation

e) Ad-Hoc Invoice Functions

f) Payment Card Function

6.2: Clarification in Invoicing:

a) Validating Elements

b) Process Identification

c) Worklist Clarification

Lesson 7 Invoice Printing:

In this lesson participants learn

7.1: Invoice Printing:

a) Collection of Invoices

b) Collaborating with Container for gathering Invoice

c) Simulate and Print Invoices

d) Understanding Customization

Lesson 8 Integration SD Invoice into Convergent Invoicing:

In this lesson participants learn

8.1: SD Billing:

a) Basic Process in Sales

b) Distribution Billing

c) Document Integration

d) Document Flow

Lesson 9 Convergent Invoicing triggered Rating:

In this lesson participants learn

9.1: Overview Convergent Invoicing triggered Rating:

a) Understand and Organize Consume to Cash Process

b) Master Data Structures

c) Rating Process

d) Item Management

9.2: Consumption Items Convergent Invoicing:

a) Master Data Consumption

b) Fields in Consumption Items

c) Creating Consumption Items

d) Finding Consumption Items

e) Workbench Correction

9.3: Convergent Invoicing Triggered Rating:

a) Executing Rating Process

9.4: Customizing of Data Storage and Rating in CI:

a) Creating Consumption Item Classes

b) Basic Customization for Rating

c) Creating Own Customized Consumption Class

Lesson 10 Master Agreement and Complex Discounting:

In this lesson participants learn

10.1: Overview Master Agreement:

a) New Master Data

b) B2B Process

c) Invoice Agreement

d) Invoice List Agreement

e) Complex Discounting

f) SAP ERP Contract Accounts

g) Billing and Invoicing according to Master Agreement

10.2: Invoice Agreements and Invoice List Agreements:

a) Functions of Invoice Agreements

b) Invoice List Agreements

c) Product Group in Master Data

d) Analyzing Results in Billing and Invoicing

e) Filter Technology

f) Maintaining Master Data with Invoice Agreement

10.3: Complex Discounting:

a) Complex Discounting in Master Agreement

b) Master Agreement enhancement with Complex Discount

c) Billing and Invoice running with Complex Discount

Course Mode of Delivery:

1) Classroom Training

2) Online Training- Tutor Based (SAP Subject Matter Expert)

3) Self-paced learning

Course Duration:

20 Hours

Course Fee:

$2500 USD