Monday, October 29, 2007

SAP RM_CA and CBRM integration

SAP Revenue Management–Contract Accounting (SAP RM-CA), is a revenue management system that SAP offers to the telecommunications industry, Portal has an integrated solution for SAP RM-CA, telecommunications providers with the challenge of revenue management, such as controlling revenue leakage they experience as they roll out new services. May find this solution quite useful. From the press release:“By integrating the two systems, SAP RM-CA Manager enables you to supplement billing and accounting features available in Portal with additional receivables and collections management capabilities of SAP RM-CA”.

With SAP RM-CA Manager, you can first use Portal’s functionality to perform rating and discounting and run billing for accounts that Portal shares with SAP RM-CA. You can then initiate post-billing and accounts receivable (A/R) activities, which include applying payments, issuing refunds, calculating fees and interests, and so on. You perform most of the A/R activities using SAP RM-CA, while some are performed in Portal.

The billing data accumulates in the Portal database each time Portal runs billing, generally every day. While running billing, Portal generates a bill for each account that has a billing date of the previous day (or earlier if you don’t run billing daily). To finalize the bill, Portal changes the status of the bill items associated with the bill from pending to open. Open bill items stop accumulating charges, which makes applying payments and performing other A/R activities possible.

SAP RM-CA Manager collects all open bill items from the Portal database and transfers them to SAP RM-CA. SAP RM-CA posts them as open items and can now display the accounts’ billed balances and apply payments, issue credits, perform write-offs, and so on.

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