Multiple Rate type time slices (Installation level) getting merged

[joshua_jebamani]

Hi,

We have situation where we would like a rate to be executed twice within the same billing period, but in two time slices.

Example:

The rate ZPRCCALC is used to calculate the commodity price for an installation, for the billing period

This rate is executed at the installation level.

     Rate type ZPRICE_DYN, is maintained in the installation fact

     Rate category Z_DYN_CUST is used in the installation header time slice

     Rate determination has been defined for the rate type and rate category, and has the rate ZPRCCALC inside

We are in a situation where, for the month of October, there are two different prices applicable

     01.10.2014-15.10.2014 Price1

     16.10.2014-31.10.2014 Price2

I have tried the below methods to see whether the correct prices are returned

Method 1:

Updated the code in ZPRCCALC to create two time slices in the output operand

Result:

Billing terminates as soon as I update the first time slice to the output operand. (Macro used:mac_output_ioper)

Error log has the following details "The time slice of the outbound step does not cover the time slice of

the target step."

Method 2:

Time sliced the rate type installation fact.

Instead of having 01.10.2014-31.10.2014 ZPRICE_DYN

I changed it to

     01.10.2014-15.10.2014 ZPRICE_DYN

     16.10.2014-31.10.2014 ZPRICE_DYN

But the rate is getting executed just once! For 01.10-31.10! It is as if SAP merges the time slices.

Result:

Billing works fine but ZPRCCALC is executed just once, for the whole time slice instead of twice.

So, the output operand has just once price, for the whole period

Method 3:

Time slice the rate type installation fact, just as in method 2

Updated ZPRCCALC code to create two time slices in the output operand

Result:

Same error as method 1.

Can someone please let me know what I am missing here.

Should I add period control to the variant? Is there any other configuration that needs to be maintained?

Regards,

Joshua.

[Former Member]

Hi Joshua,

Can you please tell the input and output operand categories.

And if possible the source code, probably as an attachment.  Would help in analysis.

Cheers,

Rakesh. .

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[joshua_jebamani]

Hi Rakesh,

     There are no input operands. The single output operand has category FACTOR.

     Also there is no variant or period control.

     I can see that inside the macro there is a check performed whether the "From timeslice contains the into-timeslice"(Copied the text from the comment in the source code. Source code in a standard subroutine), for FACTORs. But is this fixable by a note or a configuration or may be a different macro?

     Also the code is very simple, so adding it right here.

     Everything till the macro execution works fine. Inside the macro billing terminates with the error from my first post.

  *Logic to fill in the prices into table i_prices
  *i_prices has the below structure
  *   ab                TYPE isu2a_out_oper-ab
  *   bis                TYPE isu2a_out_oper-bis
  *   qnt_new      TYPE isu2a_out_oper-qnt_new

  loop at i_prices.

  out_oper-ab      = i_prices-ab.
  out_oper-bis     = i_prices-bis.
  out_oper-qnt_new = i_prices-qnt_new.
  out_oper-qnt_old = i_prices-qnt_new.

  mac_output_ioper x_op-o1.

endloop.

        i_price is a table with header line and has the below data inside

               01.10.2014     15.10.2014      0.5     0.5
               16.10.2014     31.10.2014      0.23   0.23

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi Joshua,

Thanks for the information.

Can you try having an input parameter in the variant for the price to be maintained in the facts.

so your time slice cause of price change would come in directly in the table with 2 line items.

That should work for you.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Rakesh. .

sapisurdg.wordpress.com

[joshua_jebamani]

Thank you very much Rakesh.

Let me try that. Seems like it will work. But will update you after my attempt.