SCHEDULE MASTER

Create a portion Meter Reading Unit

DEVICE MASTER
E41B
E41H Register Group Device Category Device EG04 EG01 IQ01 FPP1 CAA1 EG31 EC50E

Technical Master
Connection Object Premise Installation Device Location ES55 ES60 ES30 ES65

BUSINESS MASTER
Business Partner Contract Account Installation (Full) move in

Scenario Meter to Cash

1. Schedule creation 2. MR Order creation Meter Reading Results.-single Entry 3. Billing analysis 4. Executing Billing 5. Executing Invoicing 6. account balance Reversals: EA13 Meter Reading Correction: El27 EL01 EL28 EA00 EASIBI EA19 FPL9 Others:

Billing master Data

1) Configure billing classes (SPRO -> SAP Utilities -> Contract Billing -> Billing Master Data -> Define Billing Class) 2) Configure Rate types - transaction EA56 3) Define Rate - transaction EA30 4) Create register operands - from within EA30 5) Define fact groups - (SPRO -> SAP Utilities -> Contract Billing -> Billing Master Data -> Rate Structures -> Rates>Define Rate Fact Groups) 6) Create Schema - transaction EA35 7) Create Rate category - transaction EA54 8) Create Rate Determination. - transaction EA87

Budget billing
Fixed partial payment on the expected bill, which is charged in advance. These partial payments are charged on budget bill- ling due dates. For the utility company, budget bill- ling payments are down payments on the bill, which is charged later.

Period-end billing
Additional billing at the end of a period whereby the customer is billed for the closed period, for example, by means of back billing.

Periodic billing
Consumption billing performed in regular intervals. The time sequence of this billing process is defined in scheduling. Examples: Annual consumption billing Monthly billing Bimonthly billing Backbilling is used when the correction for the previous periods is expected to happen every month upto 12 months ( floating backbilling govern by End of billing period and period length in portion OR backbilling "n" periods" based on no. of periods mentioned in the "n" field), Whereas backbilling from dynamic period control would be triggered only by actual reads. DYnamic period control CANNOT be used along with backbilling

Budget Billing Plan Procedure

. A utility company normally bills for its services at the end of a supply period, for example, during annual consumption billing. Throughout the current period, it therefore charges budget billing amounts instead of the actual amount owed, in order to remain solvent. You define the dates and the amount of the budget billing amounts in the budget billing plan. The budget billing plan forms the basis for the increase in the budget billing amount. You can use several budget billing procedures. Each of these have different ways of determining budget billing dates and amounts, managing budget billing data and posting procedures. Statistical budget billing procedure Partial bill procedure Payment plan procedure

 Payment scheme

Outsorting
Procedure whereby a document is placed on an ex- exception list
if it has failed validation during billing or invoicing.

DPC(Dynamic Period Control) enables you to

process billing documents based on estimated consumption. It lets you correct all the estimated billing with real meter readings without cancellation on one billing document. For example: if you have a periodic actual meter read in the system in 01/01/09 and you have estimated meter reads for the subsequent months 02/01/09, 03/01/09, 04/01/09 and then you had a period actual meter read in the system for May month 05/01/09. DPC lets you correct all the estimated billing documents using 1 actual meter read billing document.

Rate
Billing rule for a register or a reference value that refers to all the billing-related steps executed during billing. A rate consists of one or more variant programs, which are part of the billing schema.

Payment plan:
An agreement between the customer and the utility company, which determines the amount to be paid for each bill on agreed dates. The payment plan amount is not necessarily the bill amount. The difference amount between the bill amount and the payment plan amount is fixed and posted. The payment plan is not to be compared with the budget billing plan that is charged between two periodic bills.

Rate category
Classification of an installation for billing purposes. In conjunction with rate type, the rate category is used to determine the rate.

Rate fact group

Grouping of individual facts that are allocated to a rate. Several rate fact groups can be allocated to one rate. Rate fact groups enable you to use the same rate but apply different operand values. Example: Rate fact group X contains the rate facts minimum demand = 20 kW and discount rate = 10%. If a custo- mer uses 20 kW, a discount of 10% is granted.

Payment Scheme:
The payment scheme is a statistical budget billing procedure. Consumption billing amounts from previous and current billing periods are copied to the payment scheme and distributed evenly over the next billing period. The budget billing amount is determined partially from an extrapolation portion that reflects the expected consumption for the current billing period and partially from the copied consumption billings. It is not necessary to copy consumption billings to the payment scheme in order to use this procedure. If you do copy them, the bills are not paid directly by the customer but during the next billing period when the payment scheme requests are paid. The payment scheme allows payments to be made in weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly cycles. The validity period of a payment scheme is unrestricted. This means that a payment scheme is not ended and another created when you create a periodic bill. Instead, the existing payment scheme is adjusted.

Rate type
Classification of a register, flat rate or reference value for billing purposes. In conjunction with rate category, the rate type is used to determine the rate.

Rate Determination
Rate type + rate category = Rate