SAP Subscription Billing Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud – Beginner’s Guide

 Welcome to our beginner's guide to integrating SAP Brim subscription billing into SAP S/4HANA Cloud! This guide starts from scratch to give you an overview of integration, from general integration concepts to specific integration of SAP subscription billing with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

General integration concept

A typical integration process consists of 3 steps:

Sender: You need some information from the sender system, e.g. B. Business partners, products, orders, billing information and more.

Recipient: You need information in the receiving system.

Mapping. You need to map information from the sender structure before mapping it to the receiver structure, as most cases have a different pattern or design.

API and authentication

To receive information from a sender or send information to a recipient, you need an API, and the information you can receive or the activities you can perform using the API are protected. Common authorization methods are:

OAuth 2.0. Client ID & Client Secret is required for tokens, and information can be accessed via API with tokens.

Basic authentication. User and password.

SSL client certificate

Let's come to the general concept above for the specific integration between SAP subscription billing and SAP S/4HANA cloud.


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SAP Subscription Billing Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud - Sales Subscription Billing Management (57Z)


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SAP Subscription Billing Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud - Converged Billing Subscription Management (5IK)

SAP subscription billing. You must set up a service instance with the correct scope to access the API. This includes API information and appropriate customer identification numbers and customer secrets.

SAP S/4HANA cloud. You need to configure the communication layout to tell S/4HANA Cloud which system to use to communicate and which data to transfer. And set up basic Cloud Integration rights to access their product API and SBDR.

SAP cloud integration. The SAP Cloud integration as middleware must send requests for billing for both SAP and SAP S/4HANA Cloud subscriptions, so you have to configure API and authorization on both systems:

SAP Subscription Billing API address and secret and OAuth 2.0 client client ID.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud API address and master username and password for authorization.

SAP event network. SAP Event Mesh is another intermediary used for event-based communication between SAP subscription billing and the SAP S/4HANA cloud. You need to create a SAP Event Mesh instance and provide the SAP S/4HANA Cloud service key to process event messages.

 


For information on the complete integration configuration, see:


Set up subscription management with billing for sales (57Z)


Set up subscription management with converged invoicing (5IK).


Configuration in the SAP S/4HANA cloud

The following communication conditions must be configured:


SAP_COM_0008 (integration of business partners, customers and suppliers)

SAP_COM_0009 (product integration)

SAP_COM_0642 (integration of subscriptions and supplier contracts)

SAP_COM_0092 (enterprise event integration)

SAP_COM_0095 (SAP subscription fee with SAP S4HANA Cloud Sales Billing Integration) - only for 57Z

SAP_COM_0165 (Converged Billing Integration) - only 5IK

Two communication systems should be created for the communication mechanism:


Communication system 1 for communication agreements using SAP cloud integration: SAP_COM_0008, SAP_COM_0009, SAP_COM_0095, SAP_COM_0165.

Communication system 2 for communication devices to integrate navigation solutions and tasks into the user interface: SAP_COM_0642.

No explicit communication system required for SAP_COM_0092

Configuration in SAP subscription billing

See Billing Configuration for SAP Subscription - 57Z, Billing Configuration for SAP Subscription - 5IK.


Configuration in SAP cloud integration

The following integration packages are used for integration:


For 57Z:


SAP Subscription Billing Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud - Sales Billing Subscription Management

SAP subscription fee integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud products

For 5IK:


SAP Subscription Billing Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud - Converged Billing Subscription Management (5IK) with ACI InfoTech. 

SAP subscription fee integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud products

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