Settlement and Invoicing

Use

SSR settlement and invoicing functionality allows you to create the documents required to:

  • Invoice service station partners on the basis of:

  • Meter readings from pumps and payment card transactions received from the POS system

or

  • Cash information and payment card transactions received from the POS system

  • Settle with payment card clearing houses

  • Settle with fleet card companies

Integration

The settlement and invoicing processes use standard SD billing documents and pricing functionality.

Prerequisites

  • In Customizing for the Industry Solution Oil & Gas (Downstream) , you must define:

  • The relevant parameters for the document base table. For more information, see Document Base Table (DBT) .

  • Invoicing documents. You do this by choosing:

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The settlement and invoicing process and prerequisite processes such as meter readings upload must be defined using the SSR process control tool. For more information, see Process Control .

In the business location master record of each location for which invoices are to be created, you must:

  • Assign a processing profile in which the basic settlement and invoicing parameters are specified. For more information, see Processing Profile .

  • Assign payment card types for which payment card settlement is required. For more information, see Assigning Payment Cards to Business Locations .

  • Define a partner role for the payer. The definition must include the sales area data to be used for automatic invoicing. For more information, see Partner Role Assignments .

Features

Settlement and invoicing functionality allows you to:

  • Settle with fleet card companies and payment card clearing houses. For more information, see Payment Card Handling .

  • Invoice service station partners. For more information, see Service Station Partner Invoicing .

  • Reverse service station partner billing documents. For more information, see Reversing Invoicing Documents .

  • Invoice without sales order or deliveries. You can use uploaded meter reading or POS system data to create billing documents directly. Material movements can be created separately to update service station stock levels.

  • Drill down from service station partner billing documents to underlying meter readings and payment card transactions

  • Generate CO distribution cycles to post costs associated with credit card and fleet card settlement to location cost centers. For more information, see Distribution .