BR235 - SAP Convergent Charging 5.0

Unit 1: Introduction into SAP Convergent Charging (CC)

Introduction in Subscription and Consumption Business

• Understand subscription and consumption use cases
• Explain Subscriptions and Consumption Change Economy
• Provide Industry Examples

Overview of SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management

• Provide an Introduction to Billing Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM)

Overview of SAP Convergent Charging

• Describe Cloud Selection Service
• Understand SAP Convergent Charging Capabilities
• Provide an Overview Convergent Charging Processes
• Detail the Functional data model of SAP Convergent Charging

Unit 2: SAP Convergent Charging User Interfaces

SAP Convergent Charging Core Tool

• Understand the Core Tool Navigation
• Understand the Core Tool Features (Open, create and save a catalog object)

SAP Convergent Charging Cockpit

• Understand the Cockpit Navigation

Unit 3: Customer Master Data: Subscriber Account, External Account and Charging Contract

Subscriber Account and External Account

• Describe Price and Charge Processes
• Explain Customer Master Data Objects

Provider Contract (incl. Access)

• Understand Master Data Distribution in SAP BRIM
• Provide an Example of Rating Runtime in SAP Convergent Charging

Unit 4: Service Provider Master Data - Design Objects

Rating and Charging Logic Concepts

• Understand Charging and Rating Concepts – Design and Runtime Overview
• Provide a Business Case
• Explain Charging and Rating Concepts – Design Objects

Charging Logic Concepts

• Explain Charging Plan Concepts

Rating Logic Concept Basics

• Understand Chargeable Items, Consumption Items, Consumption Item Mapping

Rating Logic Concept Charges

• Define a Charge
• Explain Tabs of a Charge
• Design a Price Plan
• Understand Usage and Recurring Rates

Rating Logic Concepts Logic Components - Overview and Tables

• Define Mapping Table Class and Mapping Table
• Explain Range Table Class and Range Table
• Understand Subscriber Mapping Table
• Understand Subscriber Range Table
• Explain the Agreement Table
• Use Tables in Training Landscape

Rating Logic Concepts Logic Components - Pricing Macros

• Understand Pricing Macros

Rating Logic Concepts SOM Integration

• Understand Integration SOM Price Tables

Rating Logic Concepts Charge Plan

• Understand Charge Plan
• Configure Tabs of a Charge Plan
• Describe Billable Item Mapping and Charged Item Class
• Understand Object Versioning in Convergent Charging

Outlook Rate Plan design with Cockpit

• Design SAP CC objects with the Cockpit

Unit 5: Allowances

Understand Allowance Overview

• Understand Allowance Overview Within Convergent Charging
• Define allowance

Understanding the Allowance Lifecycle

• Understand the allowance lifecycle
• Understand the allowance lifecycle process steps

Processing Allowances

• Model allowances
• Create allowances
• Activate allowances
• Expire allowances

Understanding Allowance Functional Design and SOM Integration

• Understand the Convergent Charging objects for allowances
• Understand allowance design in training example
• Understand SOM allowance groups

Understand Shared Allowances

• Explain Shared Allowances
• Compare scenarios

Unit 6: Architecture and Integration

 Integrating SAP Convergent Charging and Understanding Its Architecture

• Understand the Convergent Charging technical architecture
• Identify Convergent Charging core server components
• Understand communication between components

Integrating SOM (Agreement Tables)

• Understand SOM products
• Design cross catalog mapping with assignment of charge plans to SOM product
• Understand subscription order, subscription contract, and provider contract (distribution)
• Use Convergent Charging tables
• Create new Convergent Charging tables

Understanding the Import Export Connector (IEC)

• Explain the Import Export Connector (IEC)
• Explain the steps of an IEC

Convergent Mediation

• Understand the terms used in the Convergent Mediation
• Understand the creation of workflows and configurations
• Understand how Convergent Mediation interacts with Convergent Charging and Convergent invoicing

Convergent Invoicing (CITs and BITs, (Re)-Rating, Billing, Invoicing)

• Understand the process steps Rating, Billing and Invoicing
• Understand consumption item management
• Understand Billable Item Management
• Know business needs for consumption items (Deferred Rating, Aggregation, CI triggered Rerating)
• Understand how different price models implicate rating process

Account Splitting

• Understand the necessity of accounting splitting in high volume business
• Understand how subscription order management supports account splitting
• Learn when agreement tables are used in SAP CC

Unit 7: Web Services and Java APIs

Web Services and Java APIs

• Understand SAP CC integration with webservices and java APIs

Regression test SOAP UI

• Call CC Web Services with SoapUI
• Use SOAP UI for regression testing of price models

Unit 8: Operations

Installing SAP Convergent Charging

• Explain the SAP Convergent Charging Installation Guide
• Describe SAP Convergent Charging Administration Guide
• Understand Error analysis for a CC developer
• Access Catalog Transport Information

Unit 9: Cross Industry Examples

Cross Industry Examples

• Understand the Business Case E-Mobility
• Describe the Business Case for Telecommunication Services
• Understand Business Case for Video on Demand
• Explain Business Case Parcel Services