In the SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM) solution, the master data for a customer's service agreement is managed in SAP S/4HANA as a Subscription Contract. When this contract is created or changed, it is distributed to downstream components. The replication process creates a corresponding Provider Contract in both SAP Convergent Invoicing (CI) and SAP Convergent Charging (CC). The Provider Contract in SAP CC contains the specific charging information, such as identifiers for charge plans, which is necessary for the system to rate and charge for service usage. Therefore, the Provider Contract is the object that is created and maintained in SAP Convergent Charging as a result of replication from S/4HANA.

B. Subscription order: This is a transactional document that precedes the contract. It initiates the creation of a contract but is not the master data object replicated for ongoing charging.

C. Partner agreement: This term is not the standard object used for replicating customer charging data from S/4HANA to Convergent Charging in the core BRIM process.

D. Subscription contract: This is the source object in SAP S/4HANA. The object created in SAP Convergent Charging as a result of the replication is the Provider Contract.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA (2020)

"Integration of Subscription Order Management with Convergent Charging": This official documentation states

"When a subscription contract is created or changed in Subscription Order Management

the contract is distributed to the connected systems. A provider contract is created in SAP Convergent Charging and SAP Convergent Invoicing." This confirms the creation of a Provider Contract in CC.

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP Convergent Charging 2020

"Core Tool > Data Management > Customer Master Data > Provider Contract": The documentation defines the Provider Contract as the central customer master data object in SAP CC. It explicitly mentions that "A provider contract is created in SAP CC when a business partner subscribes to a service or a product proposed by the service provider. The provider contract is sent by a CRM application or another provisioning system connected to SAP CC." In this context

S/4HANA is the provisioning system.