SAP Fiori apps for SAP Convergent Invoicing provide users with a flexible and user-friendly experience to access business transactions on various devices.
The SAP Fiori user experience model is based on five pillars:
The blog post outlines the description, functionality, and usage of SAP Fiori apps introduced with the SAP 2021 release and also some commonly used SAP Fiori apps for SAP Convergent Invoicing.
Consumption items are usage records that are stored in the database tables in SAP Convergent Invoicing in the form of consumption items. The upload of consumption items earlier in the system was performed using Transaction FKKBIXCIT_UPLOAD, as shown in the figure below. Using this transaction, consumptions items are imported in SAP Convergent Invoicing from an external source file.
With the recent release, SAP has now provided the Upload Consumption Items app to perform the same task. You can perform the following activities via the Upload Consumption Items app:
Various errors may occur during the processing of consumption items. Errors can originate during the consumption item creation, transfer from Raw to Ratable status, and also during the rating of the consumption items.
Error analysis and resolution has always been a crucial activity. Proper view of logs is always needed to analyze the errors. SAP has provided the Display Error Logs – Consumption Items app, as shown below, to view and analyze the error during various steps of consumption items processing.
Using this app, you can perform the following activities:
To enable the recording of error logs in the system for the consumption items, the configuration settings need to be maintained in Transaction SPRO path Contract Account Receivables & Payables > Convergent Invoicing > Error Logging > Activate Error Logging for Consumption Items, as shown.
The configuration enables a choice of which error log needs to be captured along with the number of days the errors reside in the system and the maximum number of error messages per execution.
Error messages that aren’t required to be captured can be excluded using the Excluded Messages subnode.
Similar to consumption items, billable items can encounter various errors during billable item processing. Errors can originate during the billable items creation, transfer from Raw to Billable status, and any other action performed on the billable item.
Error analysis and resolution have always been a needed and important step. Proper view of logs is always needed to analyze the errors. SAP has provided the Display Error Logs - Billable Items app, as shown in the next figure to view and analyze errors during various steps of billable items processing.
Using this app, you can perform the following activities:
To enable the recording of error logs in the system for the billable items, configuration settings are needed. To do this, navigate to Transaction SPRO path Contract Account Receivables & Payables > Convergent Invoicing > Error Logging > Activate Error Logging for Billable Items, as shown in this figure.
The configuration enables a choice of which error log needs to be captured along with the number of days the errors reside in the system and the maximum number of error messages per execution. Error messages that aren’t required to be captured can be excluded using the Excluded Messages subnode.
There are various other frequently used SAP Fiori apps in SAP Convergent Invoicing, which are discussed next.
Business transactions for sales, discounts, and charges are records in the SAP Convergent Invoicing system in the form of billable items. These billable items are then under processing for billing and invoicing.
The display and management of billable items can be performed under the same Display Billable Items app via the following operations, as shown in the next two figures:
Billing is the process that selects, groups, and aggregates billable items to create billing documents. The billing documents created can also be viewed using the Display Billing Documents app. The various sections of billing documents are displayed, and user-defined layouts can be maintained as needed.
Following are the various activities available via the Display Billing Documents app, as shown in the next two figures:
Invoice documents contain the information that is sent to the customer about the sales, tax, and discounts for the purchase or service used by the customer. Invoices are the legal documents against which customers make a payment. Invoicing documents in SAP Convergent Invoicing can also be viewed using the Display Invoicing Documents app. Following are various activities available via the Display Invoicing Documents app, as shown in the next two figures:
Editor’s note: This post has been adapted from a section of the book SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management: Functionality and Configuration by Jyoti Prakash Pathak, Maniprakash Balasubramanian, Shovanjit Gangopadhyay, Clement Sanjivi, and Andreas Tan.