Symptom
When services are performed between affiliated companies within the same SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition system so called Resource Related Intercompany Billing Process is used. In a nutshell this process uses elements of occurred cross-company costs and converts these to billable service products on sales/billing documents.
A new Resource Related Intercompany Billing solution has been developed and released with feature parity and has many improved capabilities including:
- Flexibly configure the determination of Material that influence the Invoice structure
- Enhanced traceability of billing data with released CDS views
- Removal of restriction “one Intercompany sales order for one sender and receiver company code”
- Enablement of end-to-end extensibility to influence rate, structure, taxes and split of the invoice
Resource Related Intercompany Billing Process is an integral part of the following scope items:
- 4AN - Intercompany Billing for Cross-Company Cost Accounting Postings (core scope item)
- 16T - Intercompany Processes - Project-Based Services
- 4AU - Project Control – Intercompany
- 53Y - Intercompany Billing for Service Documents
This document provides information on the activation steps for the new Resource Related Intercompany Billing solution.
Environment
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Resolution
From SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502, the functionality can be enabled via Configuration (CBC / Manage Your Solution). Activation via configuration has the following advantages:
- No impact on existing customer usage of billing of choice.
- Helps to run the separate solutions in different tenants.
- For customers who will activate the new solution, with maintaining one additional configuration, they can “Continue from where they left” and bill the already created intercompany postings with new Intercompany Billing.
NOTE: Once the configuration is switched On, it cannot be reversed to run Resource Related Intercompany Billing Process.
For CBC, the configuration can be found under tile Project experience -> Configuration under Activities in the left pane -> Billing and Invoicing -> Customer Invoicing -> Intercompany Invoices -> Project based Intercompany Billing -> Activate New Resource Related Intercompany Billing.
For Manage Your Solution, the SSCUI ID is 106898.
The configuration will not be included in a transport so should be redone in Production.
See Also
Keywords
Resource Related Intercompany Billing, new intercompany billing, old intercompany billing, generate intercompany billing requests, ICO, ICOBLG001, Activate New Resource Related Intercompany Billing, 106898 , KBA , PPM-SCL-BIL-FIO , Fiori UI for Project Billing (Public Cloud) , PPM-SCL-BIL , Project Billing (Public Cloud) , How To
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