Utilities, Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable 3
Technical Name of Business Function |
|
Type of Business Function | Industry Business Function |
Available As Of | SAP Enhancement Package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage | Utilities/Waste&Recycling/Telco |
Application Component | SAP Utilities, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable ( |
Required Business Function | Utilities, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable 3 ( Utilities, Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable 1 ( Utilities, Convergent Invoicing 2 ( |
This business function now also offers you comprehensive transparent processes for managing your dealings with business customers in addition to the processes for managing your dealings with private customers that were previously available in SAP Convergent Invoicing.
Integration
You can use the functions provided with the business function Utilities, Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable 3
(ISU_INV_PP_3
) with the following business functions:
Utilities, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable 3 (
ISU_CA_3
)Utilities, Convergent Invoicing 2 (
ISU_INV_2
)FCC and Dispute Management for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, 1 (
CRM_FCA_2
) in SAP CRM
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 are using 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 functions Utilities, Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable 1 (
ISU_INV_PP_2
), Utilities, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable 3 (ISU_CA_3
) and Utilities, Convergent Invoicing 2 (ISU_INV_2
).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
Master Agreements
You can use master agreements for business customers (see Master Agreement under 
SAP Convergent Invoicing
Master Data in SAP Convergent Invoicing
). You can archive master agreements.
Provider Contracts
You can:
Record discounts and charges for each logical provider contract item and define a validity period for them (see Provider Contract).
During the transfer of provider contract data from an external system, such as SAP CRM, you can persist IDs in the ERP System (see Migration of IDs to Provider Contracts)
Display counters from SAP Convergent Charging in the ERP system (see Display of Counters for Provider Contracts).
Billing Partners
You can process payments for partners using the partner settlement function (see Partner Settlement under “SAP Convergent Invoicing”).
Discount Assignment and Calculation of Charges
During billing, you can calculate discounts and charges on billable Items (see the section Discounts and Charges on Billable Items under “SAP Convergent Invoicing”).
Data Storage for Consumption Items
You can import consumption items from an external system, temporarily save them, and transfer them to a rating system for the final rating (see Rating under “SAP Convergent Invoicing”).
You can archive rated consumption items.
Rating
You can control the rating of consumptions from SAP Convergent Invoicing (see Rating under SAP Convergent Invoicing
Data Storage for Consumption Items
).
Rerating
You can perform a rerating for both consumption items that SAP Convergent Charging has rated offline and for those that are rated online (see Rerating under SAP Convergent Invoicing
Data Storage for Consumption Items
).
Prepaid Processing
During prepaid processing, you can do the following:
Change bank and payment card data in prepaid accounts (see Change of Payment Data).
During processing of prepaid credits, you can display counters for contracts (see Display of Counters for Provider Contracts).
Reversing Billing and Invoice Documents
During reversal, you can decouple the time at which the billing and invoicing documents to be reversed are selected from the actual time at which the reversal is performed. You use reversal tasks to do so.
Processing Billable Items
You can manually create and change billable items.
Processing Consumption Items
You can manually create and change consumption items.
Configuration of Interfaces for Billable Items
When transports with billable item classes are imported to the target system, you can start the generation of classes automatically (see Configuration of Billable Item Classes).
Processing Taxes
You can determine the tax account assignment according to the country supplied and list the location where a service is performed in the billable items. This covers the requirements of the EU tax package 2010.