#Progressive invoicing professional#

There is also an accelerator in place that can be used to extract project plan data in the format of the data migration template and that eases migration efforts. This means that customer projects using the old solution can exist next to other ones with new solution, but there is no possibility to change running projects from one solution to the other. As both solutions can still exist in parallel without impacting the existing billing process, customers can migrate to the Project Billing solution in a phased approach.

#Progressive invoicing professional#

Starting from SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2111, the Project Billing solution is the default solution for the billing preparation process in the professional services scenario. The deletion of the deprecated Business Catalog is currently planned for CE2408. The old billing solution (Business Catalog SAP_PSP_BC_PRJ_BILLING_PC with the applications Release Billing Proposals, Edit Billing Request and Release Billing Requests) is accordingly deprecated since 2108. For existing brownfield landscapes, customers need to request for its activation specifically. Since the release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2108, scope item 4E9 is delivered as standard scope item, which means that it is activated by default in all new customer systems. Further information can be found on the SAP Best Practices Explorer. Next to DE and US, this scope item is relevant for all standard countries and regions except Brazil.

The delivery of the Project Billing functionality is enabled through scope item 4E9 “Project Billing – Project-Based Services”.

This does not only include the possibility to add further activity types respective billing materials through a flexible material determination configuration, but also a generic access to Project Billing based on authorizations and an extended reporting on billing data.

Addition of several new features as compared to the earlier solution.

When a posting in ACDOCA/Universal Journal is detected as billing relevant, it is getting directly pushed to the new billing tables which also has an added advantage of performance improvement.

Prior preparation of billing data using a push principle.

This allows to leverage centrally provided capabilities such as sorting, grouping, and filtering or the use of different variants in viewing the provided data.

Increased usability due to the usage of latest SAP Fiori elements.

The key benefits of this Project Billing solution are the following: To overcome this problem and other restrictions, a completely new architecture for the billing preparation process was built. This limited the number of activity types and sales/billing materials that could be used in the professional services scenario to the pre-delivered ones T001-T020, U001-U010 and E001-E040. To give an example, the underlying source selection and material determination in the DIP Profile was not open to customers for customizing due to several reasons. The former resource-related billing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud has been in place for several years, so there was the need to address not only feedback from customers and partners, but also holistically solve fundamental requirements. Why Project Billing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition? The following article shall provide further details on motivation and included functionalities.

Thus, the Project Billing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud as our public cloud offering is an important change in the professional services scenario. The preparation of a bill plays a vital role for companies in the consulting industry. Relevant for public edition of SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2302.