SAP Subscription Billing Architecture Design Question

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Is it possible to have one SAP Subscription Billing tenant to integrated it with SAP SD Billing EBDR but have two business scenarios configured

Scenario 1 - The bills and subscription contract from SB are transfered in S4 SD via custom development and zz tables

Scenario 2 - The bills and subscription contract from SB are transfered in S4 SD via activating the business functionas for standard Master data replication - provider contracts

Is that possible to have different subscription order type to differentiate the two scenarios or is better to have second tenant for the Scenario 2

What would be your recommandation?

Many Thanks,

Neshet Lluka

[ralf_rubel · Accepted solution]

Hello Neshet,

Thanks for your question. Here some thoughts about it.

There is no need to have separate tenants although it would be a valid approach, too.

For sure it is not just a matter of configuration to run both scenarios in one tenant. At least adaptations to the billing integration would be required as you have different mappings and services involved depending on the scenario.

The criterion for identifying the scenario would be important. An attribute that is present in the SB bill, e.g. the market, would be ideal for the determination of the scenario.

Based on this criterion you could than even run separate iFlows, one for each scenario.

Kind regards

Ralf

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Many thanks for reply ralf.rubel

[stefan_kiene]

This should work with one Subscription Billing tenant, as long as you still connect to the same backend system.
But there's some work to do and it would be easier with two tenants.

• Create two subscription profiles
• One with replication to provider contracts active
• One with replication to provider contracts inactive

• The difficult part. you have to work on, is the integration for bills to configure CPI in a way that no provider contract ID is filled for the subscriptions without provider contracts. The standard iFlow assumes, you have the provider contract replication active.
  Additionally, you need to find some indicator in the bill, that allows you to distinguish the two cases (e.g. based on product IDs, markets or custom references in the bill).