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Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

ISU_BI_INV_1

Type of Business Function

Industry Business Function

Available As Of

SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0

Technical Usage

Utilities/Waste&Recycl/Telco

Application Component

Utilities Industry (IS-U) component

Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable component (FI-CA)

Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition

Utilities, General Enhancements (ISU_UTIL_1)

Utilities, Waste and Recycling (ISU_UTIL_WASTE)

This business function contains functions for generic billing and invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. You can use these function to implement specialist billing and invoicing procedures.

Some examples are:

  • Transfer billing information from external systems

  • Invoicing of this billing information transferred

  • Bill creation

  • Integration with Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable

This function gives you the option of billing your customers for services, independently of billing and invoicing in SAP Utilities.

Integration

The functions available with this business function can be enhanced with the Business Intelligence Content as of SAP NetWeaver 2004s BI Content Add-on 7.03.

The business function Utilities, Generic Billing & Invoicing includes functions from the components Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable and Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. The functions provided with this business functions cover both components. These are part of bill processing in SAP ERP:

  • Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable

    • Transfer of event detail records (EDRs) as a basis for billing

    • Aggregation of EDRs in the billing process

    • Creation of a billing document

  • Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable

    • Joint invoicing of billing documents

    • Special invoicing procedures

    • Bill Creation

  • Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable

    • Processing the open items associated with the bill

Note Note

Note that there is no integration with the existing billing and invoicing functions of SAP Utilities.

End of the note.

Prerequisites

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

Type of Component

Component

Software Component

IS-UT 604

Software Component

FI-CA 604

Software Component

SAP_APPL 604

Software Component

EA-APPL 604

You have activated the following business functions:

You make the necessary settings for activating the billing and invoicing functions in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.

Features

  • The business function allows billing and invoicing of services on the basis of billing information from external systems. This information is transferred to the SAP System as event detail records, assigned to billing accounts, and billed.

  • The billing documents produced from billing are then invoiced in the subsequent invoicing process and billed to the customer.

  • The function in the business function Utilities, Generic Billing & Invoicing can be used as an additional alternative billing channel for utility companies.

  • Enhancements in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable

    If you activate this business function, you can also use the following functions in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable:

    • Receivables management

      • In Collections Management, you define the test series for champion/challenger analyses. You can define challenger strategies for a certain percentage of champion strategies and allocate master data groups for the analysis.

      • In Collections Management and in classical dunning, you can generate worklists from the dunning runs, which you can use as the basis for a telephone call to a customer, or for telephony systems.

        You can define responsibilities for processing the worklists for a department, a group, and/or collection specialists.

    • Tax

      • Both surcharges and reductions are possible for withholding tax to be retained.

      • You can define any number of withholding tax base amounts or percentages as well as withholding tax amounts at business partner item level.

    • Integration with the general ledger accounting - account assignment

      • Receivables and payables can be assigned using a profit center.

      • The profit center, business area, and account assignments of Funds Management can be inherited from the receivables for the tax items. If necessary, the tax items are distributed between different account assignments.

      • Postings to balance sheet accounts (for example, bank accounts and bank clearing accounts) can be assigned using a profit center.

    • Other Enhancements in Receivables Management

      • You can include partial amounts of receivables in an installment plan. The first installment amount can be different to the remaining installments. You can also add additional surcharges to installment plans, such as inflation-related charges.

      • You can automatically write off receivables according to a time and amount grid.

      • The classic revenue distribution is available as a mass activity.

      • As part of the enhanced revenue distribution, you can not only distribute cleared receivable items by payment to the final recipient, you can also distribute open receivables items and payments on account.

      • You can group items together before automatic clearing.

      • For mass activities, you can determine the problem class of the messages issued by the application log.

    • Payments

      • In the payment run, you can use for master data preselection to select the business partner or contract account.

      • For international payment transfers, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable supports BIC and IBAN in payment lots and in transfer programs for generating payment lots instead of bank codes and bank account numbers.

    • Integration with other application components

      • Extractors for the payment and returns history enhance the analysis options within SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI).

      • You can transfer clarification cases from SAP Dispute Management to an external application for further processing. This means, for example, that you can also create and process clarification cases in a Customer Interaction Center.

      • You can also subsequently integrate the Funds Management component (PSM-FM) from Public Sector Management with Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.

    • Closing preparations

      • If, during invoicing, neither the times nor the amounts for the deferred revenue recognition are available, you can use events to trigger the revenue recognition.

      • In the event of doubtful entries or individual value adjustments, you can use ledger groups for the postings to update selected ledgers.

      • During value adjustment, you can specify an explicit value adjustment amount, which the system uses to perform indivudal value adjustment for a receivable.

      • You can create installment plan evaluations for the key date so that installment plans are taken into account for balancing purposes when listing the open items.

    • Enterprise Services

      • For submission to collection agencies, the file interface has been replaced by corresponding Enterprise Services. A monitoring function for collection services is available as well as transactions for processing collection agency data and posting collection agency payments.

      • By implementing the corresponding Enterprise Services, you can do the following within the external cash desk services:

        • Process deposits, withdrawals, and cash desk differences of external cash desks

        • Enter G/L postings and down payments to external cash desks (or in branches) in expanded form

        • Check the cash balances of external cash desks and payment collectors (branches)

    • Country-specific enhancements for Italy

      You can levy Bollo for customers with tax exception.

    • Country-specific enhancements for USA

      Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable supports the process of check escheatment for checks that were not cashed by the recipient within a specified time period.