Receiving Payments for Grid Usage 

Use

With this business process, you, in the role of the distributor, can process the payment advice note of the invoicing service provider (for example, the supplier). And you can clear the receivables on the invoicing service provider’s account and at end customer level.

Prerequisites

The invoicing service provider has sent you a payment advice note.

Process Flow

 

The following process runs in SAP R/3:

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       1.      Enter payment advice note

In this step, you enter the payment advice note. You have the following options:

¡        Enter the payment advice note data in the system manually

¡        Transfer the payment advice note data to your system electronically (using an IDoc)

¡        Transfer the payment advice note data to your system using the BAPI interfaces

       2.      Process payment advice note

In this step, you process payment advice note data that already exists in the system  Once an automated check has taken place, you can create a distribution lot from the payment advice note. This is required in order to clear individual receivables at end customer level.

You can monitor payment advice note processing. In addition to the names of the distribution lots, you can display error and warning messages in the processing log

       3.      Create distribution lot

In this step, you create a distribution lot from an aggregated receivable, as long as you have not already created a distribution lot in payment advice note processing.

       4.      Process distribution lot

In this step, you allocate incoming payment to the distribution lot in the invoicing service provider’s contract account and continue processing the lot (for example, close or post lot)..

The posting of the distribution lot is executed as a background process. You can display the status and the corresponding messages in the application log.

Result

Entering and posting the aggregated payment of the supplier cleared the aggregated contract account of the supplier. Posting the distribution lot from the payment advice note or from the aggregated receivable cleared the end customer accounts.