SAP BRIM is subdivided into SAP Subscription Billing and SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Contract Accounting and Invoicing.
SAP Subscription Billing connects the front-office applications for customer engagement like sales, service, and marketing to the digital core back-end.
SAP Subscription Billing covers the following steps:
- Business Model Design enables the design of subscription services and pricing attributes.
- Subscription Capture enables to sell more by dynamically bundling products and services.
- Subscription Management enables the subscription monitoring and lifecycle adjustment.
- The usage data from mediation systems is uploaded to calculate usage-based charges.
- Subscription Monetization enables recurring and usage-based rating and charging.
- The rated and charged items are transferred to an invoicing system.
The SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Contract Accounting and Invoicing processes the rated and charged items from source systems such as SAP Subscription Billing.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Contract Accounting and Invoicing covers the following steps:
- Billing and Invoicing supports the selection and aggregation of billable items to create well structured invoicing documents which are the source for the receivables management.
- Contract Accounting supports the management of receivables, payments and collections.
- Contract Accounting is integrated to the General Ledger of SAP S/4HANA Finance to fulfill the legal requirements of accounting and revenue recognition.
- The calculation of partner revenue share and the partner payment is covered as well.
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