SAP BRIM Training (Billing and Revenue Innovation Management)
SAP BRIM training teaches you the solution set behind subscription and usage based monetisation.
- 45 hours
- Intermediate
- Live online
What is SAP BRIM Training (Billing and Revenue Innovation Management)?
SAP BRIM training teaches you the solution set behind subscription and usage based monetisation. You cover subscription order management with products and rate plans, one-off, recurring and usage based charges, Convergent Mediation for usage records, Convergent Charging for rating and discounting, Convergent Invoicing with billable items, billing documents and invoicing, contract accounts receivable and payable for high volume receivables, credit and collections at scale, the handover into revenue accounting for IFRS 15, and partner and revenue sharing settlement.
What you get
- Explain the BRIM component landscape and where each piece fits
- Configure subscription products, rate plans and charges
- Explain mediation and rating of usage records
- Design billable item classes and run Convergent Invoicing
Who this course is for
New to the field
- Billing operations staff moving into SAP
- FI consultants adding subscription billing
- Consultants entering telecom or SaaS
Working professionals
- Teams implementing subscription monetisation
- Consultants on a BRIM programme
- Anyone supporting Convergent Invoicing at volume
Prerequisites
- SAP FI knowledge is important, ideally including FI-CA.
- SD or CRM familiarity helps.
- Telecom, utilities or SaaS billing experience is a strong advantage.
What you will be able to do
- Explain the BRIM component landscape and where each piece fits
- Configure subscription products, rate plans and charges
- Explain mediation and rating of usage records
- Design billable item classes and run Convergent Invoicing
- Operate FI-CA for high volume receivables including dunning
- Explain the revenue accounting handover for subscriptions
- Run and monitor a full billing cycle
Salary range
- India
- 12-36 LPA
- United States
- 130k-185k
Market ranges for SAP BRIM Consultant, not a guarantee. Actual pay depends on experience, location and employer.
Curriculum
Subscription monetisation foundations
Understand why standard SD billing is not enough.
- Product-as-a-service and subscription models
- One-off, recurring and usage based revenue
- Why standard SD billing breaks at volume
- BRIM component landscape
- Subscription Billing versus classic BRIM stack
- Where S/4HANA fits in the architecture
- Key apps and transactions across BRIM
- Scoping a monetisation programme
Subscription order management
Sell and change subscriptions properly.
- Subscription products and their structure
- Rate plans and rate plan items
- Charge types and pricing models
- Provider contracts and their lifecycle
- Order capture and provisioning handover
- Contract change: upgrade, downgrade, suspend
- Cancellation and termination handling
- Migration of an existing customer base
Convergent Mediation and Charging
Turn raw usage into rated charges.
- Usage record collection and mediation
- Mediation zone and data enrichment
- Duplicate and error handling in mediation
- Convergent Charging architecture
- Charging plans and charged items
- Counters, allowances and free units
- Discount models and bundles
- Testing rating logic against real usage
Convergent Invoicing
Consolidate everything into one invoice.
- Billable item classes and their design
- Billable item interface and upload
- Billing process and billing documents
- Billing document creation and simplification
- Invoicing and invoicing documents
- Invoice consolidation across sources
- Reversal and adjustment handling
- Performance at high billable item volume
FI-CA for high volume receivables
Manage millions of receivables reliably.
- Contract accounts and business partners
- FI-CA document structure
- Payment lots and payment run
- Returns and returns lot processing
- Dunning and collection strategies
- Instalment plans and write-offs
- Interest calculation
- Mass activities and their monitoring
Revenue accounting and settlement
Recognise revenue and pay partners.
- Handover to revenue accounting
- IFRS 15 considerations for subscriptions
- Contract asset and liability at scale
- Partner settlement models
- Revenue sharing calculation
- Commission and reseller settlement
- Reconciliation across BRIM components
- Audit evidence in a high volume model
Operations, analytics and improvement
Run the billing cycle and prove it is correct.
- The monthly billing cycle end to end
- Monitoring mass runs and error queues
- Billing exceptions and their root causes
- Revenue assurance concepts
- Analytics on subscriptions and churn
- Performance tuning of billing runs
- Disaster scenarios and recovery
- Continuous improvement of the billing process
Projects you will build
Subscription to invoice
Configure a subscription product with recurring and usage charges, create a provider contract, upload usage, rate it and produce a consolidated invoice.
Contract change and adjustment
Process an upgrade mid-cycle with proration, then reverse and re-issue an incorrect invoice and explain the FI-CA postings.
High volume operations
Run mass billing and invoicing, work the error queue, execute a payment lot and a dunning run, and reconcile across components.
Tools you will use
- Subscription order management
- Products, rate plans and provider contract lifecycle.
- Convergent Charging
- Rating, discounting, counters and allowances for usage.
- Convergent Invoicing
- Billable items, billing and invoicing documents.
- FI-CA
- High volume receivables: payments, returns, dunning and instalments.
- Mass activities
- Scheduled runs for billing, invoicing, payment and dunning.
- Reconciliation reporting
- Cross-component checks that the billing cycle was complete and correct.
Certification
- Exam
- SAP delivers BRIM certification through product learning journeys and the FI-CA related credentials rather than one current C_ series exam. We prepare you against SAP's Subscription Billing, Convergent Invoicing and FI-CA learning content.
What learners say
The high volume operations project is the differentiator. Anyone can bill one contract; running mass activities and clearing error queues is the actual skill.
Proration on mid-cycle upgrades is our biggest source of customer complaints. This course explained exactly why and how to configure it properly.
FI-CA at BRIM volumes is a different discipline from FI. Worth taking for that module alone.
Fees and training modes
Choose how you want to learn. No-cost EMI is available on the live and 1-to-1 modes.
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₹49,000
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₹9,000
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Learn on your own time with recorded sessions and the same materials.
Refunds and cancellations are covered in our refund policy.
What a day looks like
- Billing cycle
- Monthly cycle monitoring, where a failed mass run has a hard commercial deadline.
- Error queues
- Billable items and documents that failed, each blocking revenue until cleared.
- Rating disputes
- A customer charge that looks wrong, traced back through rating to the usage record.
- Contract changes
- Mid-cycle upgrades and cancellations, and the proration questions they raise.
- Revenue assurance
- Proving that everything consumed was rated, billed and collected.
Training a team?
We run this course as private corporate training, tailored to your systems and scheduled around your team. Tell us your group size and what you need to cover.
Request a corporate quoteFrequently asked questions
Is there a single BRIM certification?
Do I need FI-CA knowledge?
Is this only for telecom?
How does BRIM relate to SAP Subscription Billing?
Does this cover revenue recognition?
Is there hands-on access?
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