In SAP Subscription Order Management (SOM), when a change is initiated for an active subscription contract, such as modifying a product, the system generates a specific transactional document to manage this process. This document is called a Change Order. The Change Order captures all the details of the requested modification. Once the Change Order is submitted and processed, the system updates the original subscription contract to reflect the changes, ensuring a clear and auditable trail of all modifications made during the contract's lifecycle.

A. Change contract account: A contract account is a master data object used in FI-CA for billing and payments; it is not the transactional document generated for a product change.

B. Change contract: This is a description of the overall business process's outcome, not the specific name of the transactional document created by the system to manage the change.

C. Change sales order: While a subscription order is related to a sales document, the specific document type for managing modifications in SOM is a "Change Order," not a standard SD sales order.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA

Subscription Order Management: "Change Processes for Subscription Orders". The documentation states

"When you make changes to an existing subscription contract

the system creates a change order. This change order contains the changes that you want to make to the subscription contract." This confirms that the "Change Order" is the specific document generated.

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA

Subscription Order Management: "Processing Change Orders". This section details the lifecycle of the change order document

from creation and validation to submission

which then triggers the update of the subscription contract. It explicitly refers to the document as a "change order".