Title
Trigger for billing in the R/3 system.,,,,,,

Purpose
You use this report to directly generate billing documents in the R/3system from documents in the CRM system, without using other documentsin R/3.

Prerequisites,,,,,,
You have made the following Customizing settings:
You have defined the items as relevant for transaction-based billing.You do this in Customizing for CRM. Choose Transactions ->Basic Settings -> Maintain Item Categories. This meansthat the item has the status To be billed. You can check thebilling status for an item on the Business Transaction Processing
screen in CRM. Choose the Status tab in the item detailssection.
You have entered an R/3 destination. In the IMG in the CRM system,choose Customer Relationship Management -> CRM Middlewareand Related Components -> Communication Setup -> DefineMiddleware Parameters. Select CRM and OLTP RFC destinations.In the Paraname column, enter CRM_DEFAULT_DESTINATION (tablename SMOFPARSFA).
In Customizing for Sales and Distribution in the OLTP-R/3 system, youhave:
Created the CRM order type (for example, LEAS)
Created the CRM item categories relevant for billing (for example,FAPF)
Created a billing type for billing (for example, CRM)
Created copy control for billing documents (sales document to billingdocument), with the following data:
,,,,,,,,Destination - CRM
,,,,,,,,Source - LEAS
,,,,,,,,Item category - FAPF
,,,,,,,,Pricing type - G

Features

Activities
In the CRM system, open the transaction se38. Run the reportCRM_BILLING.
The screen Trigger Order-Related Billing in R/3 appears. Use thefields Document number, Sold-to party or organizationaldata (such as sales organization, distribution channel, division,billing unit), to select the CRM items that you would like to bill.
Set the indicator Test run, if you want a the system to displaya test list of the items that you have selected for billing.
Set the indicator Synchronized if you want the system to waituntil one billing document is created before it processes anotherdocument. You can set this flag during online processing. Forperformance reasons, do not set this flag during background processing.
The CRM system uses Remote Function Call to call an R/3 billing BAPIfor the selected CRM document items and their conditions. The R/3system creates the billing documents and sets the status of the items
to Billed. A document flow for the billing document is writtenin the CRM system.
The billing BAPI determines which items are aggregated into one bill.
The report lists the CRM transaction items that you have selected.
In online processing, you can use the Protocol function todisplay messages from the billing BAPI.