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When there is a Change of Supplier process in Utility Industry. For more information, visit the Utilities homepage.
Summary
Whenever there is a change of supplier process in a deregulated energy market, we need to consolidate all the data related to a switch process in one place and this is where there is a need for a Switch Document. This Article will help you in understanding the Switch Document and how it will be helpful. Author: Manish Bisht
Author Bio
Manish Bisht has been associated with Wipro Technologies since November 2006. He is currently working as a SAP-ISU Technical Consultant.
Using the Switch Document for Change of Supplier Process (Utility Industry)
Table of Contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 What is Switch Document? ................................................................................................................................. 3 Switch Types ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Switch Views ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Switch Status .................................................................................................................................................. 3 Owner .............................................................................................................................................................. 3 Start Scenario ................................................................................................................................................. 4 Target Scenario............................................................................................................................................... 4 Why Switch Document?...................................................................................................................................... 4 Monitoring Switch Document .............................................................................................................................. 5 Prerequisite ..................................................................................................................................................... 5 Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 10 Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 11
Using the Switch Document for Change of Supplier Process (Utility Industry)
Introduction
Deregulation of market has given consumers the freedom to choose their energy suppliers and to change the supplier if they are not satisfied with the services of the supplier, leaving challenges to the suppliers to have accurate and up-to-date data of switch history of the consumers. As change of supplier process demands a lot of data to be shared between retailers or between retailer and distributor, Intercompany Data Exchange (IDE) are used which automates transactions between market players in a deregulated market. The situation becomes bad to worse when lots of data is exchanged and keeping a track on the data flow becomes a tedious job.
Switch Views A switch view is the view from which the change of supplier process is considered. Switch documents are always created with reference to a switch view. The following switch views are predefined by SAP in the standard solution: Distributor view - 01 Supplier view new supplier - 02 Supplier view former supplier - 03
Switch Status Switch status describes the current status of the Switch Document. When the Change of Supplier Process is in progress, switch Document status is set to Active (03). And when the Process completes, Switch Document status is set to Complete. Following are the statuses of the Switch Document. Owner Owner describes the owner of the process. It contains the name of the Service Provider who has started the process. If the Process has been started by the New Service provider, then the field will contain the name of the New Service Provider.
Using the Switch Document for Change of Supplier Process (Utility Industry)
Start Scenario There are many supply scenarios in the deregulated energy market. For example, grid usage and supply services can be performed by a service provider operating in the system or a consumer can choose a different supplier (third party service provider) this changes its supply situation. Start Scenario describes the Supply Scenario at the point of delivery at the start of the process. Target Scenario Target Scenario describes the Supply Scenario at the point of delivery at the end of the process.
Switch Document acts as a linkage to all the IDocs received or generated for a switch process. We can attach the IDoc related to an activity in Switch Document and can navigate to the IDoc. In this way, we can know the complete data that has entered the system or has gone out from the system for a switch process. Switch Document is linked with the related Workflow, so you can keep a track on the progress of the process (which all steps has been completed for the process). The change of supplier process (as an intercompany process) can be viewed from three different switch views. These are the New Supplier, the Former Supplier or the Distributor views. Switch Document can be enhanced to consolidate project-specific fields in it.
Using the Switch Document for Change of Supplier Process (Utility Industry)
Go to ESWTMON01, enter the Switch Document Number and press execute (F8)
Using the Switch Document for Change of Supplier Process (Utility Industry)
Click on the Document Number and you will find the complete data for a Switch Document. For example the below Switch Document is created for Switch Type 02 (Customer is Enrolling to a new retailer) and all the related activities are captured in activity tab.
Using the Switch Document for Change of Supplier Process (Utility Industry)
Click on the Value/ID field and you can navigate to the related IDoc.
Using the Switch Document for Change of Supplier Process (Utility Industry)
Using the Switch Document for Change of Supplier Process (Utility Industry)
Using the Switch Document for Change of Supplier Process (Utility Industry)
Related Content
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_utilities472/helpdata/en/5e/8e18f08ee44e12afb1e0dfb88c9854/frameset.htm http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/37/5e82abe9994c82989ead2dd422bdd6/frameset.htm http://help.sap.com/saphelp_utilities472/helpdata/en/8d/d96793ee2d424f9c315b223ec1eebf/frameset.htm http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/0e/6304acd4ad4651ad647b2e020594f8/content.htm For more information, visit the Utilities homepage.
Using the Switch Document for Change of Supplier Process (Utility Industry)