RRB issue with T&M Billing

[derekvincent]

Hello all,

We are setting up RRB for our consulting organization using the BP's. Our rates need to be dynamic and set per contract or assignment and can not really be setup as a generic rate.

I have 2 issues/questions...

1) The manual price maintained in the PR00 pricing condition in the sales contract is not copied over to the DP90 profile. This does not appear to happen as it either take the EK01 value from the actual/plan value or the material pricing condition which is also not used.

We have used the BADI_SD_V46H0001 BADI EXIT_SAPLV46H_001 interface to lookup the manual (PR00) pricing condition from the sales contract and set PR00 and the manual price in C_VBAPKOM.

This seems to work but is a little messy since it creates 2 PR00 (one is not valid) in the Credit Memo request. The valid one is the manual price that is copied via the BADI and the second is PR00 price from the standard pricing conditions (Material Price contdition if set or nothing).

2) We are required to use the Activity Type/Price Planning values for the cost center and activity type which gets used as EK01 value in the pricing conditions in the billing document. The value really has no bearing for us since a true cost would be based per consulting resource and not for a specific resource type. The other issue is in DP90 on the overview screen it takes the Ek01 value and multiplies this by the hours transferred from CATS. In the end it creates credit memo request properly but again the overview screen of DP90 does not contain the proper values...

Wondering if anyone has any suggestions/comment on the above items.

Derek.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Set up a contract specific pricing condition with Access Sequence PPAR (Not PR00). Then when you maintain the pricing condition for the contract and line item the system will pull it during Debit Memo creation through DP90/DP91/DP96. The advantage of this is that you also can maintain the condition record while creating the contract (VA41, Pricing Agreement ).

Thanks and Regards.

Jogesh

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can use EXIT_SAPLV46H_001 to copy the manual pricing condition from the contract to DMR.

The other option is to maintain a pricing condition with access sequence PR00 (This should be maintained for the combination of contract, line item & Material) so that when you create a DMR the pricing condition record can be determined.

Regarding the costs I dont see any other way because what ever planned cost you posted through CATS is pulled up as the cost.

Now you can probably think of creating separate Activity Types for each consultant in stead of single Activity Type for a group of resources. This will get you closer to the actual cost. The other alternative is custom development where you substitute the cost while transferring the time sheet data to CO using CAT7 or CATA.

Thanks and Regards.

[derekvincent]

Jogesh, thanks for the reply...

We have implemented the BADI version of the user exit and it works for the most part.

I do not understand the second point about the condition record and the access sequence... Are you saying to add something condition table 90 to the access sequence PR02 (which is what is used for PR00) ?? We had tried this and found that when we run DP90 it did not seem to take the new condition table values (over ridden PR00 in the contract) into account but redetermined pricing from material pricing info record.

Cheers,

Derek