Utilities, Convergent Invoicing 1

Technical Data
Technical Name of Business Function	ISU_INV_1
Type of Business Function	Industry Business Function
Available As Of	SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0
Technical Usage	Utilities, Waste&Recycl./Telco
Application Component	Utilities Industry (IS-U) component
Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition	Utilities, Generic Billing & Invoicing (ISU_BI_INV_1) Utilities, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable 1 (ISU_CA_1)

If you create billing documents in Sales and Distribution (SD) but then transfer them to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable for further processing, you can use this business function to process them directly in Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. The business function provides a simplified and more direct integration between Sales and Distribution (SD) and Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.

By directly integrating Invoicing with Sales and Distribution, the business function increases the transparency of the accounting data.

If you enter a billing cycle at contract account level, you can use this business function to control the frequency at which billing takes place for your customers. This ensures that your customers always receive invoices at the frequency agreed in the contract.

You can also use this business function in invoicing to determine individual discounts and surcharges for a customer's contract account. All the invoicing items are available for use as a basis for the discount or surcharge. The assignment of the discount or surcharge key at contract account level ensures that you can assign this kind of discount or surcharge to individual customers.

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:

Type of Component

Component

Is Needed Only for the Following Features

Software Component

EA-APPL 605

SAP_APPL 605

FI-CA 605

IS-UT 605

You use the industry component SAP Utilities (IS-U).
You have activated the business function set Utilities (UTILITIES).
You have activated the business function Utilities, Generic Billing & Invoicing (ISU_BI_INV_1).
You have activated the business function Utilities, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable 1 (ISU_CA_1).
You have configured the processes you want to use in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable in Customizing.
To use the features available with this business function, you have also made the following settings in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable:
- You have made the settings for transfer to invoicing (see Integration Sales and Distribution Define Posting to FI-CA for Customer Account Groups and Define Settings for Transfer to Invoicing).
  Alternatively, you can make these settings in Customizing for Sales and Distribution under Billing Billing Documents Integration with Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) .
- You have made the settings for deriving controlling values from the SD billing document (see Integration Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Transfer of SD Billing Documents Derive Main/Sub-Transaction from SD Information and Derive Document Type from SD Billing Doc Data).

Features

Transfer of SD Billing Documents

You can process billing documents created in Sales and Distribution (SD) directly in Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) without having to create FI-CA sample documents. When doing so, the SD billing documents are integrated in the invoicing document for bill display and posted in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. You can also use all the central invoicing functions for the open items generated for the SD billing documents.

A reconciliation report that determines differences and generates an overview of the print and FI-CA documents generated from the SD billing documents (see report documentation) is available for reconciliation between FI-CA documents and SD billing documents. You can find this report in the menu for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Periodic Processing Next navigation step Reconciliation of Documents with Source Data Reconciliation with SD Billing Documents End of the navigation path .

Deactivation of Installment Plans

You can have the system automatically enter the same due date as the invoice for all the installments of an installment plan that are not yet due at the time of invoicing, and thereby deactivate the installment plan.

Write-Off of Receivables and Credit in Invoicing

You can write off receivables in invoicing, for example if it is certain that a business partner is not going to pay a receivable or if the costs of collection are greater than the amount to be collected. You can also use this function to write off credits that you are no longer in a position to pay out to a customer.

Discount at Invoice Level

You can now levy charges and grant discounts for individual contract accounts during invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. You can also define block discounts - that is, discounts where the base amount is valuated with a discount that applies to the interval in question.

Billing Cycle

In addition to scheduling, which controls the execution times for billing and invoicing, you can use billing cycles defined in Customizing and specified in your business partners' contract accounts to determine the frequency at which invoicing takes place. You can make settings in Customizing to combine the control settings for the accounting period with the scheduling settings by synchronizing the execution times with the billing cycle. For example, this means you can perform billing on a daily basis and invoicing at the end of the period.