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Appendix

Contents:
Meter Reading Maintenance
Storage Object Characteristics
Dip Reading Maintenance
Interfaces

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Meter Reading Maintenance

Business location

Meter event
type

Timestamp

Actual meter
reading

Actual
material rate

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All meter events can be entered manually by calling the appropriate dialog box. The supported
meter events can be restricted at the location business type level for the interface upload or the online
transaction.

These services are currently available from the meter maintenance dialog screen and are activated by
push-buttons or menu calls. Each dialog box is called up using a function interface.

This transaction provides the same functionality as the meter readings upload for online maintenance
of the meter history.

The process is equivalent to meter readings upload and the required data is identical.

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Storage Object Characteristics
Location ID
Loc. type

SOC
SOC Class

Material

Seq. no

Tank_Liquid Tank_D1

Diesel_001

Basic data Time dep. assignment

Description

Max. Capacity

Diesel

50,000.00

Linear to volumetric conversion Maintenance data

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Dip Reading Maintenance

Business location

SOC event

Timestamp

Actual dip
reading

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Interfaces
Outbound communication
Location master detail data
- full download
Product consumer prices
- full and delta download

Inbound communication
Tank dip readings per
location, material,
tank sequence number
Meter readings per
location, material, service type,
meter sequence number
Interface is extendable with the standard
BAPI extension concept - via table
extension parameters !

Competitor price surveys

Payment card transaction data

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Interfaces

Interfaces supported by ALE integration technology

Outbound communication
Distribution of business location master data
Transfer of pricing data to an external system
Inbound communication
Upload of sales meter data
Upload of dip reading data
Transfer of payment card transaction data
Upload of competitor price data

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SSR Reports

SSR provides standard reports for SSR master data and

SSR processes..
SSR master data reports

e. g. Location lists on general and business type level

Fuels pricing reports

e. g. List price history for location

Bulk material handling reports

e. g. Meter reading history or Stocks control

Payment cards reports

e. g. PC Statistics: Monthly overview

Service station partner invoicing report

List location partner invoices

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The business location type is the primary means of categorization of business locations. You
therefore have to select a type when you create a business location master record. The business
location type typically describes the:
Function of the business location (for example, depot or service station).
Nature of the relationship (for example, company-owned/dealer-operated service station or dealerowned/dealer-operated service station) of the business location to your own organization.

You use this categorization to control which processing parameters apply to the business location,
and the screen output for maintenance and display of master data.

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SSR Performance Test I

SAP and the Fujitsu Siemens Competence Center conducted a

SSR performance test

Test volumes
4000 locations were set-up, 4000 attached plants, 8000
competitor locations, 4000 business partners (customers)
6 Materials were assigned to each locations with meters
82 Card trx./location : 50 debit card, 29 credit card, 3 fleet card
Besides the high performance figures that were achieved, good
scalability could be observed throughout the different
measurements.
SSR is designed to provide a flexible and high
performance system for the service station business.

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SSR Performance Test II

Step

Duration in min.

Meter Reading Inbound

32

Payment Card Inbound

96

Operator Settlement (*)

178

CC settlement EC card

73

CC settlement AMEX

CC settlement VISA

14

CC settlement Mastercard

16

CC settlement Diners Club

FC settlement DKV

FC settlement UTA

MR based stock update

110

Dip reading Inbound

42

DR based stock recon

19

(*) work load split on 4 parallel processes

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The business type is a key to identify the different types of business in the SSR environment. These
could be Fuels, Car-wash, or C-store.

You assign a retail network business type to a business location to supplement the control of screen
output and processing options provided by the business location type.

Specifically, the assignment of a business type to a location allows you to:

Simplify maintenance and display of business location master data by linking screen output to type
of business
Control object links to align these with type of business
Align authorization for displaying and maintaining master data with type of business

For example, if you require bulk fuel processing functionality for a location, you assign the
corresponding business type to that business location. You can then authorize display and
maintenance of fuel-related business location master data to those responsible for this business. By
accessing the business location master with that business type, the authorized person can then display
or maintain data relating to the fuels business (for example, meter data, competitor list, and price
control data.). If further lines of business, such as car wash facilities and convenience store retailing,
are carried out at the location, you can assign the corresponding business types to enable the
appropriate processing and master data maintenance activities.

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