Utility Contract 

Definition

Utility contracts are utility service agreements between the utility company and its business partners. The following contract categories exist:

·        Delivery contracts, for example for residential contracts, nonresidential contracts, cable television, telecommunications

·        Purchase contracts for small power producers, solar installations and other forms of energy transmission

·        Plant consumption contracts for generation and distribution installations of the utility company

·        Company consumption contracts, for example for the electricity consumption of offices at the utility company

·        Waste disposal contracts for the waste disposal industry.

For more information, see Waste Disposal Contract in the Waste Disposal Industry (IS-U-WA) component.

Service contracts (such as for maintenance and repair) are not managed in this component; the Customer Service component (CS) is used instead. Service contracts are billed in the Sales and Distribution (SD) component.

Use

A contract is related to a division. It links one single contract account to one installation (see graphic for the master data (ISU-BF) component). However, several contracts can be grouped together in one contract account.

A contract contains control data for contract billing and contract accounts receivable and payable. This data includes:

·        General data (for example, contract account)

·        Move-in and move-out data

·        Schedule data (for example, start date and cancellation date)

·        Data relevant to billing

·        Account assignment data (for example, account determination ID)

·        Sales and distribution data

·        Deregulation data (for example service providers)

·        Data relevant to budget billing

The Contract Model: What Data Comes From Where

With the exception of move-in and move-out data, you can change, display and check all data of multiple contracts of a contract account simultaneously, if none of these contracts have been terminated.

You can change the screen layout by configuring the tabstrips. For more information, see the move-in screen layout.