SAP Billing Systems
SAP Billing Systems: An Overview and Key Considerations
What Is SAP Billing Systems?
SAP Billing Systems is a comprehensive billing management solution that allows organizations to manage and automate their entire billing process. SAP’s billing system is a vital part of the company’s customer relationship management (CRM) strategy. The goal of SAP billing systems is to streamline the process of billing for customers and provide a single view of customer invoices and account balances.
SAP Billing Systems: An Overview and Key Considerations
What Is SAP Billing Systems?
SAP Billing Systems is a comprehensive billing management solution that allows organizations to manage and automate their entire billing process. SAP’s billing system is a vital part of the company’s customer relationship management (CRM) strategy. The goal of SAP billing systems is to streamline the process of billing for customers and provide a single view of customer invoices and account balances.
Key capabilities include:
- Ability to handle large volumes of data, create invoices quickly and easily, and track payments
- Functionality for managing customer subscriptions and usage-based pricing models
- Capacity to handle the most demanding billing scenarios and accommodate a variety of customer needs
- Robust governance and controls to ensure data integrity.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
Leverage flexible SAP Billing Systems functionality to address company-specific business processes and workflows.Organizations using SAP Billing Systems will need to consider updated approaches in SAP S/4HANA to ensure that the new system will integrate smoothly with their existing systems and processes. Unique business use cases, such as intercompany billing, require additional planning to leverage functionality extensions available in SAP S/4HANA properly.
Consider the SAP billing system as part of a larger CRM strategy. Customers should take a holistic approach to implement SAP Billing Systems and should evaluate how it fits into the overall picture of their customer relationship management. A robust subscription model powered by SAP Billings Systems can facilitate customer engagement and experience, helping to support a larger CRM growth strategy.
Reduce costs and establish end-to-end transparency with SAP Billing Systems. When organizations centralize and integrate core processes with SAP Billing Systems, they are well-positioned to have a more efficient operations cost by enabling high transparency/traceability of the entire process. As a result, finance leaders can also enable high-level data governance to ensure data integrity.
Processing $2 billion through its billing system and $120 billion of global travel spend annually, travel technology company Sabre needed a sophisticated and failure-proof software system. The business turned to SAP HANA Enterprise Edition to handle its complex requirements. The Sabre team worked with SAP to implement this solution, and as a result, has since reduced invoice processing and review time from days to hours and runtime for reports to minutes, paving the way for more advanced analytics and decision making by the business.
The digital economy is changing the way companies do business, including how they manage billing, which is a critical point of contact between an organization and its customers. A smooth invoicing process paves the way to prompt payment and a satisfied customer. If something goes wrong, however, organizations risk a costly cycle of phone calls, emails, complaints, and potentially lost revenue due to customer dissatisfaction. Learn how to minimize this risk by using SAP Operational Process Intelligence — an SAP HANA-based solution that delivers real-time insight into processes across your landscape — to monitor and optimize your end-to-end SAP Hybris Billing process.





