SCHEDULE MASTER

Create a portion
Meter Reading Unit

DEVICE MASTER
Register Group
Device Category
Device

E41B
E41H

Technical Master
Connection Object
Premise
Installation
Device Location

EG04
EG01
IQ01

BUSINESS MASTER
ES55
ES60
ES30
ES65

Business Partner
Contract Account
Installation (Full)
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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

FPP1
CAA1
EG31
EC50E

Billing master Data

EL01
EL28
EA00
EASIBI
EA19
FPL9 Others:

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

Period-end 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.

Additional billing at the end of a period whereby

the customer is billed for the closed period, for example, by means of back billing.

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

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

 Payment scheme

Outsorting

DPC(Dynamic Period Control) enables you to

Procedure whereby a document is placed on an ex- exception list

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.

if it has failed validation during billing or invoicing.

DPC lets you correct all the estimated billing documents

using 1 actual meter read billing document.

Rate

Payment plan:

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.

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.

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

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.