Organizations in today’s subscription-driven economy require flexible and efficient solutions to manage recurring revenue models and optimize critical payment processes.
This article discusses the key capabilities and advantages of SAP Subscription Billing, highlighting how it enables organizations to manage subscription services, ensuring accurate billing, customer satisfaction, and compliance with financial regulations.
Understanding the SAP Subscription Billing Solution
SAP Subscription Billing offers a comprehensive platform designed to streamline the entire lifecycle of subscription management, from product configuration and pricing to billing and revenue recognition.
By automating complex billing processes and providing real-time insights into customer subscriptions, SAP Subscription Billing empowers businesses to scale their subscription services, enhance customer experiences, and drive sustainable growth.
Key Features
Accurate billing
- Provide invoice-level discounts based on percentage, amount, or rules
- Consolidate data from multiple sources into a comprehensive billing stream
- Create customer invoices and partner statements that contain all relevant details
Customer-centric tools
- Offer flexible payment options to meet critical customer needs
- Tailor product, service, and subscription bundles to meet individual or partner requirements
- Create customer-specific promotions and offers based on specific customer attributes
Flexible lifecycle management
- Leverage mix-and-match pricing strategies to create subscriptions that meet various needs
- Configure and modify pricing logic to support real-time and offline rating processes
- Manage the end-to-end subscription lifecycle through intuitive contract changes
Customer entitlement
- Gain comprehensive insights into customer entitlements
- Drive downstream processes to improve provisions and fulfill entitlements
- Track overall consumption data to reduce revenue leakage
Efficient data management
- Handle high volumes of data from multiple sources in a single platform
- Apply error-detection rules to ensure data quality standards are met
- Automate data enrichment, correlation, aggregation, and splitting for accurate billing
Order-to-cash automation
- Leverage a centralized subledger to manage customer payments more efficiently
- Recognize and report revenues in real time through integration with the S/4HANA Cloud
- Access automated accounts receivables technology to process large volumes of invoices
Key Benefits
Increased revenues
Create innovative offerings through various pricing, bundling, and billing options.
Intelligent scalability
Leverage automation tools to streamline quote-to-cash processes and meet evolving requirements.
Value optimization
Deliver customer-specific offers that target critical needs and maximize customer lifetime value.
How Can We Help?
From outlining plans for a new SAP implementation project to navigating complex integrations between SAP and non-SAP systems, deploying new features into an existing technical environment, and ensuring effective business transformation to a subscription economy, Surety Systems has you covered.
Our senior-level SAP consultants have the skills and experience to handle your most critical project needs and prepare your internal teams for long-term improvement and innovation.
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