Partner Product Settlement Rule
When working on the revenue sharing model [partner settlement], in the Provider partner Order you must add a partner product with special settlement rule.
And again this settlement rule that is assigned to the product must be defined in the CI[convergent Invoicing] to finally create partner billing doc/invoicing doc.
In CRM[Provider Role], Create a Service and assign the category as O2C_PARTNER and mark the product as configurable.
Save it and in the Product Models select edit list.
In the product model , select edit list.
Select Insert.
Provide a model name and other details.
The below screen appears.
Select the class section and choose Create New button.
Below screen appears.
Provide class name and description. Select the class name and choose Create New Buton.
Choose Characteristics option.
Below Screen Appears.
For product model, many characteristics can be added but for partner settlement, a special characteristics called: SAP_PARTNER_RULE must be created.
Now lets create some characteristics value.
Below screen appears.
Provide a 4 character length ID and mark as default. Later Make sure that the this partner settlement rule PR01 must created in CI partner settlement.
Select the class and change the status to released.
Save and go back.
Here the Apply Changes button is activated and once you press that the status turns to released. Go back.
So the service product is created with product model consisting of partner settlement rule.
Make sure that the what ever CRM partner settlement rule is created[PR01] in above case , the same must be defined in Tx- Ficaimg ->convergent invoicing->partner settlement->Define Settlement Rules for partner. Then end-to-end process will work.
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