Project-based-services and Billing of different types of cost/expense

[eric_hassenberg]

Hi,

We are currently engaged in the implementation of S/4HANA in an engineering & project context. We need to be able to bill different activities to our customers:

• Time via timesheets
• Expenses (recorded via Concur)
• materials based on delivery & goods issue to customers
• procurement of external goods & services
• other costs
•  ...

--> We can post the costs towards the WBS (work packages) but as far as we can see, we can only bill hours (fixed price, time & material....)

In a classic SAP environment this would be covered via resource related billing BUT this does not exist to that extend in S/4 Cloud - so my big questions are:

• How can we bill any costs associated with Work packages (WBS) towards customers in a flexible way?
• How does S/4 determine which costs are "billing relevant"?
• How can we influence this or did anyone use a work around?

kind regards

Eric H.

[Enda]

Hi Eric

il try to answer your questions

1) There is no restriction to specific cost types only. Various different costs will be picked up for billing (not only hours). However, if new cost elements were created they need to get added to the relevant customizing (There is a set in the DIP profile that contains selection criteria for which cost elements are picked up; newly created cost elements won’t be in that list).

This customizing to be done by SAP and not through SSCUI

2) The determination of costs to be billed works the same way as in ERP. There is a DIP profile in the system that controls which costs are being picked up from ACDOCA and which service materials are determined for these.

3) There is no way to influence the DIP profile.

I hope the information is of help

Enda

[eric_hassenberg]

Enda,

thanks for the answer - that was indeed my hope that it still works like that. Can you please share with me:

* which accounts/cost elements are currently part of the SET so that i can try to use these accounts for testing in the starter system

Can you confirm that SAP will indeed change the range of cost elements as being part of the project since i cannot find it back in the list expert configuration?

kind regards

Eric

[Former Member]

The cost element groups are available in the BP document 'Master data CO' and the cost element groups can be edited with the app 'Edit cost element groups'. Be Carefull! ;-).