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 Editing Meters

Use

You use meters to record consumption-dependent service charges. You can create meters for the following objects:

  • Rental objects:

    • Rental unit

    • Pooled space (used to distribute to the rental spaces)

    • Rental spaces (meters of rental spaces are also automatically created for the pooled space)

  • Settlement units:

    • Settlement unit

    • Master settlement unit

    • Cost object settlement unit

      Note Note

      You create meters from rental objects, but they are actually created in the Plant Maintenance (PM) component. In PM, meters are called measuring pointsbecause they are also used for measuring other values there.

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Prerequisites

Make settings in Customizing. Choose:

Start of the navigation path SAP Customizing Implementation Guide Next navigation step Flexible Real Estate Management (Enterprise Extension) Next navigation step Service Charge Settlement Next navigation step Attributes of Rental Objects and Contracts Participating in Settlement End of the navigation path

  1. Measurement Types:

    Set the ForApp (Measurement Type Is Relevant for Apportionment) indicator for the measurement types needed for service charge settlement, and assign them the attributes for service charge settlement: You set the Consumption indicator for those measurement types that are relevant for apportionment and are to be settled based on consumption.

  2. Apport. by Consumption: Define Characteristics and Measuring Point Categ.

    Create the characteristics you require. The characteristics define for which purpose the meter is created, for example for entering cold water consumption or electricity consumption as well as the unit of measurement.

  3. Settlement by Consumption/Meter Reading: Measurement Type Characteristics

    Assign the characteristics to the measurement types.

Activities

  1. Go to rental object processing. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose:

    Start of the navigation path Accounting Next navigation step Flexible Real Estate Management Next navigation step RE Navigator Next navigation step <your rental object> End of the navigation path .

    To create meters, on the Meters tab page, choose with the quick info text Insert . Enter all necessary data for Measuring position , Description, Characteristic Name (such as, water consumption). If you are processing a pooled space, then also enter how the costs of this meter should be distributed for the pooled space:

    • Distribution Using Rental Space

      If there are rental spaces for the pooled space, then choose those that should receive a distribution from this meter. Enter the rental spaces on the Rent.Spaces tab page on the lower part of the screen by choosing with the quick info textInsert . If you do not assign any rental spaces, then the system treats the pooled space as if it is vacant, and all consumption remains on the pooled space.

      Note Note

      If you create meters on the rental space, these are automatically visible on the pooled space.

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    • Main Meter for Remaining Consumption

      This is a meter for remaining consumption that cannot be distributed to a concrete object. During service charge settlement, the system determines the difference between the consumption on this meter and the consumption on all assigned meters (that is, assigned to the rental spaces). This remainder is distributed to all of the assigned rental spaces.

    • Not Assignable to a Rental Space

      The complete consumption on the meter is distributed to the rental spaces belonging to the pooled space.

See the following examples for meter assignments:

Note Note

For more information, refer to Counters in the Plant Maintenance (PM) component.

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