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Using FI-CA and FI-AR within one S/4 HANA instance

desaitrishul
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Dear community members,

My client is exploring to use FI-AR and FI-CA in parallel within one S/4 HANA instance. For pure physical products sale they wanted to use SD based ordering/ billing and posting into FI-AR and for Subscription based bundles they wanted to use Subscription order - Convergent Invoicing and FI-CA. Is it possible? what are some of the considerations?

Thanks

Trishul

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william_eastman
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Note 2821670 provides the ability to utilize both subledgers by order data. But this should be used only in very specific circumstances. As a a general rule, multiple subledgers is a bad idea which greatly increases project effort and timeline with decreased usability and maintainability.

desaitrishul
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Thanks William! Very useful.

I agree, using both FICA and FIAR in one instance seems like a bad idea.

In this case, if we only use FI-AR then will it be integrated with CI and BRIM functionalities? What do we potentially loose in terms of BRIM capabilities if we post CI billing docs in FI-AR directly rather than going through FI-CA.

Thanks

Trishul

william_eastman
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Is this a new implementation? or already using FI-AR?

desaitrishul
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This is a new implementation

william_eastman
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consider just using FICA then. its better 🙂

SaschaWenzel
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Hi Trishul.

Yes, this is possible. The thing you have to be aware of, is the handling of incoming monies from bank accounting, especially when the customer pays one lump sum, which has to be split into a FI-AR and a FI-CA part, I do not have seen a proper solution for this.

Maybe you should rethink about using one subledger only, the following solution approaches are feasible. Every approach is valid, depends a little bit of the functionalities you want to use within the modules.

  • SD --> FI-CA and CI --> FI-CA
  • SD --> CI --> FI-CA
  • CI --> SD --> FI-AR
  • CI --> FI-CA --> FI-AR

Regards,

Sascha

SaschaWenzel
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Hi Trishul.

There is an integration in S/4HANA where you can perform a so-called "external billing" in Convergent Invoicing, which creates EBDR (external billing document request) for Sales Billing. Please check SAP Help: Omnichannel Convergent Billing; External Invoicing.

Please be aware, that you cannot use the fancy CI invoice functions in this case. I agree with William Eastman to use FI-CA. Posting from SD directly to FI-CA or transfer SD Billing Docs to CI is not a big deal.

Regards,

Sascha

hybris_acsa1
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Hi Trishul,

For the CI -> SD -> AR option, you should use SAP Flexible Solution Billing:

https://help.sap.com/doc/823120c92245457cb8e410bfa2f7dec9/1.0/en-US/SAP_Flexible_Solution_Billing_EN...

Regards,

Cris.

desaitrishul
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Thanks Cristobal. SAP flexible solution billing is an option. Does it available with S/4 HANA on-premise version?

It seems it is available with S/4 HANA cloud SaaS version only to work with SAP Subscription Billing and not with S/4 HANA BRIM?

desaitrishul
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Hi Sascha,

Thank you for response.

Can you please elaborate on option of CI-->SD-->FI-AR as my understanding is CI can only be used with FI-CA?

Thanks

Trishul