Utilities, Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable 4

 

Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

ISU_INV_PP_3A

Type of Business Function

Industry Business Function

Available As Of

SAP Enhancement Package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0 SP02

Technical Usage

Utilities/Waste&Recycling/Telco

Application Component

SAP Utilities, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (IS-U-CA)

Required Business Function

Utilities, Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable 3 (ISU_INV_PP_3)

This business function provides performance improvements during rating and in the integration of SAP Customer Relationship Management.

Prerequisites

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

    Type of Component

    Component

    Required for the Following Features Only

    Software Component

    EA-APPL 617

    SAP_APPL 617

    FI-CA 6.17

    IS-UT 6.17

  • You use the industry component Utilities, Waste & Recycling (IS-UT).

  • The business function set Utilities (UTILITIES) is active.

  • You have configured the processes you want to use for billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable in Customizing.

    For more information about the system settings required for this business function, see the function release notes. You can access these release notes using the links in the release note for the business function.

  • You have activated the business function Utilities, Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable 3 (ISU_INV_PP_3).

  • You are using SAP Convergent Charging and have configured the relevant processes.

  • You are using SAP Customer Relationship Management for Sales and Order Management based on the provider contract and have configured the relevant processes.

Features

Rating

You can automatically group consumption items in SAP Convergent Invoicing to perform a cumulated rating of consumptions and therefore improve the performance of rating (see section Rating underStart of the navigation path SAP Convergent Invoicing Next navigation step Data Storage for Consumption Items End of the navigation path).

Provider Contract

You record product information in the master data objects.

  • Provider contract

  • Partner agreement

  • Master agreement

In Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, you can decide whether you want to store the product data in the FI-CA product tables or in the material master (see Start of the navigation path Basic Functions Next navigation step Provider Contract Next navigation step Make Central Settings for Products End of the navigation path.

Invoicing

You can invoice billing documents using an external process instead of performing invoicing in Convergent Invoicing.

Billing

You can do the following during billing.

  • Use an interface component that contains the field Work Breakdown Schedule Element (WBS element) for the CO account assignment.

  • Delete reversal requests that are not involved in a reversal task and have the status New or Terminated.