Unable to create provider contract in S/4HANA Cloud

[ayushtiwari]

Hi Experts,

we are unable to create provider contract, Only showing display option. Could you please help with Business catalog or role that needs to be assigned.

Thanks,

Pintu

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[MartyMcCormick · Accepted solution]

Hello

Based on the test script for 2AR, I believe you can only create the provider contract via API.

https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/browse/scopeitems/2AR

Make sure you have set up the communication SAP_COM_0167. After that, you can create a provider contract via API by sending an http request. For more information about the Communication Scenario SAP_COM_0167, please refer to set up guide of 2AR Contract Accounting - Master Data and Basic Functions.

I would follow the setup guide in 2AR to create communication arrangement SAP_COM_0167 and then modify the sample payload found in the test script document to submit the SOAP/XML from a client tool like SOAPUI or Postman.

Thanks,

Marty

[joanabezerra · Accepted solution]

Hi, Regarding our current setup, we are currently setting the scope item 2AR as it is a pre-requisite for scope Item 3L3 (Contract-Based Revenue Recognition). Could you please confirm if creating a provider contract within S/4HANA Cloud always requires an external system (either via API or by replicating provider contracts from Subscription Billing) even for the Contract- Based Revenue Recognition scenario? Specifically, could you confirm the following: 1. Is an external system necessary to create provider contracts for CBRR in S/4HANA Cloud? 2. Is there a way to create provider contracts directly within S/4HANA Public Cloud? 3. Can CBRR be implemented with contracts created entirely within S/4HANA Cloud, without the need for external systems? 4. Is the Contract-Based Revenue Recognition scenario only designed to work with external interfaces? Thank you, Joana

[ayushtiwari]

Hi Marty,

Thanks for valuable response. We are basically trying to test 5IK scenario. But due to some other technical reasons we are not able to complete for which we are working on to get the integrations completed.

Meanwhile for testing it other wise we were checking the possibility if we send the billing data from Subscription billing and then we invoice it CI but for that we would require Provider Contract. On identifying app of Manage Provider contract it took us to display provider and concluded may be some roles may be missing which caused us to get only Display mode . But from your response it seems that we cannot manually create Provider contract in S/4 HANA Cloud either it should come from S/4 HANA on premise to S/4 cloud via communication arrangement SAP_COM_0167 or it should be replicated as Provider contracts via Subscriptions from Subscription Billing Tenant and there is no other way of having Provider contracts getting available in S4HC

Is our understanding correct?

Regards,

Pintu

[MartyMcCormick]

Hi Pintu

Yes, that's my understanding based on reading the test scripts and setup guides--that some external system needs to create the provider contract.

Thanks,
Marty