Billing Request Item

What is a Billing request Item BRI?
Thanks
Sonali

Hi Sonali,
Billing request item (BRI) are items to be billed that are generated from a billing plan using selected criteria such as general date information, start and end date, frequency, billing date and the billing creation date. Criteria are proposed here are proposed from the billing plan type. Billing request items also contain information on the settlement period and the amount for settlement. Billing request items can be used to create several settlements for a contract item, for example at regular intervals dusting the contract validity period.
Each BRI triggers a settlement after it has been released. (Exceptions here are billing request items with confirmation).
Settlement times and the generation period are defined by date rules in Customizing and these values are proposed in the license contract. You can change these values if necessary.
Siva

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Hi,
A periodic monthly billing plan should realize your functionality so I am not sure exactly what the issue is. Please explain.
Kind regards,
Vanessa

How to generate Billing Request Items in SAP CRM

Hi Folks,
We have requirements to create BRIs for Service contracts. Each BRI will create a Debit Memo Request in SAP ECC.
All Billing activities happens in ECC.
I did the following configuration:
1. Synchronization of master data (SAP CRM and SAP ECC)
2. Synchronization of pricing conditions (SAP CRM and SAP ECC)
Conditions are identical in both systems.
3. Customizing of service transactions in SAP CRM
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4. Customizing of controlling objects in SAP ECC
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5. Controlling integration: Customizing: Integration with Other mySAP.com ComponentsCustomer Relationship Management Settings for Service Processing Billing Integration Map Transaction Types and Item Categories.
When i release the Contract items, I dont see any BRI created. I am not sure where should i check, if BRIs are created.
I have following questions:
1- Where to check if BRI is created for contract
2- How to generate BRI.
3- Can i debug the process of BRI creation? Is there any FM which gets called or BADI?
4. what am i missing in above config.
Any help, material will be helpful.
Regards,
Shastri.

Hi Naresh,
You need to use Billing Plans for Service Contracts Scenario to create BRI items.
In the Billing Plan - you can assign whether it is a Periodic Billing or Milestone Billing. Then you need to assign this billing plan to item categories. So based on the period (monthly,quarterly,yearly) - the BRI items will be generated.
So Please try using Billing Plans for your scenario. As you mentioned earlier, you are using ECC for all Billing purposes. So the system will create one Debit Memo Request document per Contract and it will each line item for each of the BRI's in Service Contract. System will not generate one DMR per BRI item.
You can check the BRI items generated at the item level --> Billing Plan Tab page (Assignment Block in Web UI).
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Siraj

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I am using BW 3.5; Some Orders are missing in BW for Billing line item reports (2LIS_13_VDITM) according to the users.
The report is based on Cube directly, ODS is not used. I planned to do a repair full request for this month's data so as to get the missing orders.
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Dinamic Item Profiles: Service rates in Billing Request

Hi gurus,
we have a process with a Billing Request created in DP90 referred to a Service Order.
The service rate can have two origins depending on the vendor: activity type or sales contract.
Any clue how to do this separations? so the proper price is taken?
Thanks,
VL
Edited by: Víctor M. Liedo on Nov 29, 2010 9:13 AM

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Error while creating billing request thr tcode DP91

hi,
while creating a billing request through dp91 we are getting an error mesage : "Error during material determination for sales document item 40000067/000020". i have checked the material determination for the material, but there is no material determination maitained for the material, the material here is a service material, after creating a contract we are trying to create a billing request through DP91. this is where wer are getting the error message.

Hi,
It looks like the DIP Processor cannot determine a material.Go you your DIP Profile and check the Material Determination settings
Also run TCode ODP2 to check the consistency of your DIP Profile and also chk Material Origin field was not checked in the Costing tab of the material master.
Check above and revert back.
Regards
Ashu

Billing request? or Resource Related billing?

Hi,
Please read the real life SD - FICO scenario given below and if you think you have the solution, kindly state your suggestion. Would be much appreciated.
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Engineering Services Orders (Inter-company)
Process Steps (As-is)
1.Purchase Order is received in Co. A via EDI, from Co. B
2.Sales Order (services) is automatically generated in Co. A. It has item 10 as hours and item 20 as travel expenses in $ amount
Sales accounting creates settlement rule and internal order number and advises the engineers who will provide the services
3.Later on, engineers report actual hours for services rendered, by using CATS system This merely reports data in SAP system but does not make an FI posting
They use the order number advised to them in step 2 to create an internal order
4 Actual travel expenses are added by Payroll - as a direct posting to FI
5. Periodic CATS batch job is carried out by relevant IT person, to settle costs to an internal order (not to sales order). These costs are labor hours and travel expenses
6. FICO personnel then do transaction K08G to settle internal order --> sales order
7. (Manual Step) Sales Accounting then runs report KVBI to view and select data related to service orders The data is downloaded to an Excel worksheet and handed over to SD-Billing.
8. (Manual step) The cost data in dollar figures is converted to hours by SD-Billing, dividing cost data with rate / hour given in the sales order condition record
9. SD-Billing creates invoice. Since it is order-related invoice, it has open quantities coming in from the order. These are now manually over-written / replaced with the actual data from step 7 & 8. An invoice is thus, generated for each order individually.
Process (To-be)
To create an interim document (billing request?) to replace manual steps 7 and 8. This interim document needs to capture actual cost data form the system and also show the remaining / open quantities from the sales order
QUESTION: what is the best route to go?
Configure a Billing Request document (by modifying a standard Credit Memo Request / Debit Memo Request) or
Going via the route of resource-related billing?

Refer to the document: J48 - Project with Intercompany Billing
Link: http://help.sap.com/bp_blv1500/BL_India/index.htm
This is a very good document for guidance.
Regards,
Rajesh Banka

Billing request appearing multiple times in document flow

Hi,
After upgrading from 4.6c to ECC6, for contracts the billing request(same document number, same items) is appearing multiple times in the document flow. Please help me in resolving this issue.
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Note 1049482 is valid for the following releases:
Release Package name
500 SAPKH50018
600 SAPKH60011
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You can check your support pack level from transaction SPAM or by clicking on:
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Using the Billing Request Editor in Web Dynpro

Billing Request Editor has a number of functions that defer some of the DP91 functionality (postpone/reject) to Web Dynpro user interface. For example, WIP (Reject, Postpone) and Accrue.
On the WIP (reject and postpone) portion of the functionality it seems to go back to DIP and update AD01DLI for all items that were not billed.
However for the portion entered on the Accrual screen it does not seem to go back to DIP and update AD01DLI. Only the DMR is updated. Why?
If an accrual amount is billed to the customer for a missing/late timesheet using BRE and the timesheet is later entered/recovered would there be no requirement to go back to DIP and reject the recovered time sheet as already billed in the accrual or have the ability to reverse the accrual and enter the timesheet. It seems to presume that the user will keep this sort of reconciliation off line. Any comment? or am I missing a setting in configuration that brings the accrual back to AD01DLI for subsequent processing?
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Vitaliano,
You make a very good point. And it is probably the way that we will go. However, my task is to evaluate Web Dynpro and Visual Composer for our needs. Especially since the graphing capabilities in Web App Designer are limited for our needs. We will, at some point, have a need to combine warehoused information in BI with real-time data in R/3. I'm anticipating that this is where Web Dynpro will be useful for us. Therefore, my questions as stated regarding Web Dynpro. I just find it strange that none of the SAP documentation elaborates on the topics that I am concerned with, even though tantalizing capability summaries are dangled throughout.
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How to create a billing request for service order that has serv contract?

Dear Experts,
Can you please help me?
The scenario is, my client has service contracts with their customer but they want to charge customers not periorically but as and when they provide service (ad-hoc).
So how to bill the customer in this case?
In my testing if I have a service contract (order type = SC) then when I create service order, system automatically picks up standard order type SM01. (which is service order with contract.)
And when I perform time confirmation and material consumption (goods issue), actual costs gets booked to the service order. However, using the service order number as referece, if I try to create a billing request in DP90, system create a blank billing request with no line items.
So, could you please advice, how can I create a billing request for a service order, if I have a contract?
Appreciate your help.
Best regards,
Abdul Rafey

Hi Praveen,
Thank you very much for your reply. I appreciate your time and efforts.
Ok, these are the steps how I have executed the process.
- I have created a service contract for an equipment. In the service contract, I have maintained the service material in the line item, maintained price and assigned equipment in the technical objects.
- I created service notification, which automatically picked up contract.
- When I create service order, from notification screen, system automatically picked up correct order type SM01 (Service order with contract).
- Then I planned operations and spare parts in the service order.
- Checked settlement rule in the service order is SDI.
- released and saved service order.
- Using IW42, in SAP ECC6, you can perform both time confirmation and material consumption using the same screen and also TECO service order. System issues message to say, goods issue have been posted.
- when you check the document flow of service order, you can see operations posted, and also goods issue posted.
- check cost tab to see actual costs. (if I want to settle costs from service order to service contract, I can do so w/o a problem in KO88)
- Use DP90, enter service order number and create billing request. System takes to billing request screen but it is blank. No line items.
- So, since there is a contract, in this case, am I meant to be creating the billing request from Service contract? instead of from Service order?
I hope I have clarified myself better this time.
Best regards,
Abdul Rafey

DP96 does not show the billing request value in simulation or update mode

Hi SD experts,
Another RRB related question.
Unlike DP91 (individual BR) which you can run in simulate and see the amount to be billed, qty to be billed and net value before creating the billing request, this does not appear to be possible with DP96 (collective BR), even though the net result (after runing in update mode) is the same.
Have queried this with SAP who have said this is not supported.
Are there any BADIs or exits available which would allow these values to be shown in the ALV display when run in test mode? The retrieval would have to access saved data (from VPKHEAD) or dynamic data according to the option selected in the selection screen.
Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions on how to do this.
Regards,
Guy HInton

Hi Guy
what you need to do is this. run DP96 and choose "save extract" in the options on the selection screen. In the detail lst you then get a message "Extract saved" for each processed contract item.
This will save the amounts to be billed in the cluster of tables VPKHEAD, VPKSDITEM, VPKDI and links to the dynamic item AD01DLI as well as contracts VBAK, VBAP and projects PRPS.
These tables happen to be used in DP91 to store extracts as well. You will get a popup for all those contracts asking you "Do you want to use saved data?" now.
What that ultimately does is that DP96 creates all the data holding cost & associated revenue.
All you need to do then is create a bespoke report or SAP Query (or whatever you want to use), join the named tables and present it to your user. This way I created a Revenue forecast report which shows all revenue for time worked/cost incurred which we should be invoicing in the current financial period, but haven't created the billing requests or invoices yet.
As said I just used SQ03/SQ02/SQ01 to create a simple infoset and query and it works a treat . Example of th join seen below. Note that you may have to alter joined table according to your needs potentially.
Bjorn

Billing Request?

Dear Experts!
In last organization we were billing on the behalf of billing request.the document flow was-
1.Sales order
2.Billing Request
3.Billing (Invoicing)
there we were making Billing request using t-code VA01 and selecting a document type ZBR.
then a number was given by the system on the behalf of we done the billing.
**and when we do BRQ(Billing request )..open quantity comes for selection *****]
can anybody tell me how can I configure this ...what is the name of this method(order related billing?)..I am little bit confuse...Please tell me all the customize steps.
Regards
RAMA S Sharma

FIRST.... ZZ01 is a custom Order type....
This is an Order Related Billing if Delivery is not required. BUT do you need to put a request out there??? What is your actual requirement??
Otherwise, you can copy a DR.. This is a Debit Memo Request. You can reference the Sales Order for Order Related Billing and then the Billing Due List will pick up this Billing Type. But the DR type will have most of what you already need.
Figure out what Item Categories you are already using in your Sales Order. Make sure the Copy Control is maintained from Order to Order and Order to Billing.

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I am working on setting up the Billing Request Editor. When I completed the configuration in the ECC 6.0 system and access the Web UI and enter my debit memo request (DMR) that came through my RRB (DIP) process, I get the following error:
Requested function is active (BF 'SD_01') but not allowed (BFS 'DIMP')
Has anyone received this error? How can this be fixed?
Appreciate any response regardless of how technical.

Hi Sara, I have the SAP documentation that describes the configuration and setup of the Billing Request Editor. It however is a bit cryptic, but does give a general guide with screen shots on the type of configuration required.
I have gone through the steps and though I am able to get the editor's UI up and running, I have a few errors to work through. I originally had an error stating that the "Customizing for Characteristics was not complete" but solved this error by ensuring that all Characteristics that were setup as "character relevant" for the specific DIP profile were entered in the IMG activity "Select Characteristics from Dynamic Item Processing". I found that it this error was resolved when the characteristics were entered in the exact sequence as they appear in the DIP profile (ODP1).
Since then I have come upon two other errors that I am now working through:
1. "Form of Address Key not defined" - even though I have updated the form of address keys and config with generic values
2. "H is not a unit without dimension" - I assume this relates to the setup of the unit of measure and therefore requires me to use HR instead of H for hours.
Has anyone encountered and solved these two items?
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Otherwise I can try to get it to you via other means.

System not clearing the Payment request items with the payments

HI Everybody,
User getting an issue relating to clearing of the payment request items. In a particular Contract account, it has got 51.75 Pounds of Bank Giro incoming payment. It has contains some 5 items of payment, 3 items of 10.75 and 1 Item of 21.70. The 3 items of 10.75 were cleared 3 payment reqquest items and since there is no due payment requests were there at that time, this 21.70 was showing pending credit item. After two days two payment requests came as due. There are jobs which run daily for FPMA. But this 21.70 is not clearing to this due payemnt requests. I tried to run this FPMA manually for this contract account. But these were not cleared.
Could anybody suggest anything on this why these items were not clearing against each other?
Thanks & Regards
Siva

Hi
The issue is due to the implementation of support packs. Specifically to do with note 1005708.
siva

Billing doc item to Accounting doc item no relation

Hi all
I want to link the billing doc item to Accounting doc item no.
how is the relation available using tables & fields ?
thanks

Dear SRI,
These are the fields
1.BUZEI --- Number of Line item with in the Accounting
Document.
2.POSNR -- Billing item
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