License Sales Contract Processing |
In this process you
are selling rights to the licensee. You control the transfer of
rights against fixed or variable license fees in license sales
contracts
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The monetary
implications of the sale are transferred to SAP R/3 Accounting
(such as the profitability analysis).
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You can represent
various types of contracts, such as:
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Sale of rights to Intellectual
Properties (IPs), to sell these on to other licensees
(sub-distribution).
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Sale of rights to Intellectual
Properties (IPs), to create and market your own products on the
basis of these IPs.
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Acquisition of rights as an
outline agreement (
output deal
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defined upfront, but are first assigned to specific IPs at a
subsequent stage.
Central storage of
all contractual agreements as license sales contracts means that
you can avoid entering the same data in various systems and ensure
that automatic billing of license fees for the licensee, which may
be based on their exploitation success is possible.
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This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings
SAP License Sales for Media
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| Rights Availability Analysis |
Displaying an overview of the
Intellectual Property rights, with particular emphasis on the
following aspects:
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The
ability to perform a search using any criteria.
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Search for rights that are still
freely available to be sold.
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Search for sales contracts in
which specific rights have already been assigned.
The rights availability
analysis
can be
used as type of rights inventory management.
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This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings
SAP License Sales for Media
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| Rights Usage Confirmation |
You sell rights against variable license fees in your company. License fees are based on the success that the licensee has had from exploiting the right. The data on revenues and rights exploitation costs reported by the licensee are entered in the license usage confirmation and automatically assigned to the sales contract for specific periods. The data confirmed is taken into account during billing for incoming royalties in accordance with the arrangements in the contract.
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This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings
SAP License Sales for Media
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| Incoming Royalties Billing |
You have made agreements on the transfer of rights against fixed or
variable license fees in license sales contracts. The incoming
royalties billing process is used to bill license revenues on
schedule according to the agreements for fixed or variable license
fees and on the basis of any usage data for the licensee. The
system recoups any existing advances and minimum guarantees
automatically here. more...You have made agreements on the transfer of rights against fixed
or variable license fees in license sales contracts.
The incoming royalties billing process is used to bill license
revenues on schedule according to the agreements for fixed or
variable license fees and on the basis of any usage data for the
licensee. The system recoups any existing advances and minimum
guarantees automatically here.
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This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings
SAP License Sales for Media
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| License Sales Contract Analysis |
This process analyzes
the business transactions for licensing with regard to the success
achieved in various markets.
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You can perform
diverse evaluations for each market, country, business partner and
Intellectual Property (IP)
such
as:
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Who were my best licensees last
year?
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Which IPs brought me the greatest
sales volume last year in which markets?
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Where are my most profitable
markets?
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How much was earned in a specific
market or country in comparison to the previous year?
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This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings
SAP License Sales for Media
SAP NetWeaver
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| Account Processing |
Account and contact management helps companies capture, monitor,
store, and track all critical information about customers,
prospects, and partners. Sales professional are provided with a
single, comprehensive view into all of the information necessary to
effectively manage their sales accounts.
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This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings
SAP License Sales for Media
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| Activity Processing |
In this process, you create a business activity, and the data you
enter in the business activity is automatically transferred to your
groupware administration system, in this case, Microsoft Outlook or
Lotus Notes. Next, you document the business activity, for example,
using an activity journal or questionnaire.
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This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings
SAP License Sales for Media
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Content Availability Check |
Before closing a license
sales deal the availability of the content in the requested format
has to be checked. Usually this information is retrieved from
specialized media asset management systems.
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This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings
SAP License Sales for Media
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| Contract Revision |
You use this business process to make subsequent changes to license sales contract items that have already been released. These changes can relate to the Intellectual Property (IP), rights or distributions in sales contracts. You can make this type of contract change retroactively or non-retroactively according to the business transaction involved. The original contract item is assigned the Completed status for a non-retroactive change and is valid until its contract end, whilst the modified contract item starts from its contract start date, (which is the day after the completed contract item ends). The type of change you make can affect subsequent processes such as confirmations, incoming royalties billing, outgoing royalties settlement, update in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), revenue recognition and payments or partial payments in Accounting. You can perform contract revision during the entire lifecycle of a license sales contract.
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This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings
SAP License Sales for Media
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