Account payble and receivable?

the high number of customers and invoices, waste disposal companies must create
a large number of payment demands. To prevent you from having to
Account payble and receivable?
enter this mass data in general ledger accounting, sub-ledger accounting has been
integrated into Waste Management: Accounts receivable and payable. Contract
accounts receivable and payable is specially designed to process mass data. At
certain intervals, the system transfers the cumulated individual bookings to the
general ledger in Financial Accounting (FI). You can also transfer sales or service
invoices from the Sales and Distribution (SD) component to contract accounts
receivable and payable. The goal of contract accounts receivable and payable is to
automate all processes. Manual intervention is only necessary if an agent’s decision
is required.

What are Processing Components ?

use this component to:
Create, change and display
Delete, Archive
Plan (resource planning and route allocation)
Output
Confirm
What is Postal Regional Structure ?
The postal regional structure enables you to do the following:
Manage postal codes, cities and streets.
Check the accuracy of postal codes, cities and streets.
Simplify the process of entering postal codes, cities and streets.
When you create objects that refer directly or indirectly to an address, some fields
may already contain default values (as in the connection object). In other cases,
such as in the installation, you must have the system propose a value.
What is Data Archiving in SAP Utilities ?
In IS-U you can now archive billing documents, print documents and budget billing
plans.
This means you can ease the load on your database at any time by archiving the
correspondence you no longer need online. The documents are deleted from the
database and written to the archive files.
To display archived documents at any time using the appropriate standard IS-U
transaction,always restore archives.

Premise?
Its incospecial arrangment to receive a conjumption could be an apartment like
aprt 123... The premise is division-independent; you can allocate electricity and
water installations to the same premise.

connection object: its building plant where is the connection given by utilities
company
Business master data is integrated with technical master data

What is CRM?
CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. With a CRM system, you can
automate and integrate your customer-facing activities: sales, marketing,
customer service, and e-commerce. Best-in-class CRM software also offers tools for
customer analytics, personalisation, social media, collaboration, and more.

New CRM systems centralise, store, and track massive volumes of customer and
prospect data – from contact history to social media activity – and make it
available in real time.

SAP IS-U supports business functions such as meter reading, meter data
management, scheduling, billing, invoicing, accounting, customer service, and
integration to customer relations management. This component can manage and
bill customers who receive services, purchase goods, or pay fees and taxes.
Business Data: Any master data that is used for billing a customer for the services
provided is grouped under Business data. For e.g., a business partner who is a
person or an organization.
Technical Data: Any master data that is used for actually providing the services
are grouped under Technical Data. For e.g., a device or a meter that is installed in
a customer location.
Business Partner: A business partner could be a person, an organization, a future
customer, a contact person or even an installer who is licensed to provide the
utilities services on behalf of the utility company.
Contract: A contract is the legal agreement that the business partner has entered
with the utility for a particular service. For e.g., a utility may provide electricity,
gas and water services. Usually a contract is created in the system for each of
these services so that the customer can be billed appropriately. If you avail more
than one service with your utility, take a minute to check your utility bill, you will
see those contracts displayed separately as different line items in your bill.

Contract Account: A contract account is a logical way of grouping various

contracts.
The contract account is used for maintaining the payment, dunning and collection
rules that are common to a group of contracts. It is through the contract account,
the business partner is linked to the contracts.

Multiple contracts can be grouped under a single contract account however, a

contract can be linked only to one contract account.

Also, multiple contract accounts can be linked to a business partner, however a

contract account can only be linked to one business partner.

In case of big commercial establishments or utility paid apartment complexes, the

contract accounts may be used to group multiple suites or apartments under a
single business partner, so that the payment responsibility lies with the business
partner.

The combination of Business partner, contract account and contract comprise the
business data.
Device: it refers to the physical device. It could be an electric meter, gas meter,
regulator, sensor etc. Every device has a unique serial number and in SAP a utility
device is a nothing but a equipment with a serial number. Every utility device will
have a material number created in SAP as well. Usually each service (electric, gas,
water) etc will have at the least one device. It is through the device reads that the
utility can measure the consumption of the service.
Device Location: This refers to the physical location of the device. More than one
device can be in a device location or each device can be its own location. For e.g., in
my house, the gas meter is outside the house but the water meter is inside the
house. So these would be treated as two device locations that have two individual
devices installed. Device locations are handy to capture the co-ordinates so that
when there is a maintenance activity to be performed on the device, it is easy for
the field personnel to locate the device.

Connection Object: This refers to the physical location where the various services are
provided. It is the service address and usually the address of the house but in case of
apartment complex could be different than the address of the apartment that actually
consumes the service. Device locations (discussed above) take the address of the
connection object with additional qualifiers to pin point their location. For e.g., in my
house, as I said, there are two device locations. The address of these locations will still
be my house address but the additional qualifier would be basement, hallway etc. In
SAP, the connection object is nothing but a plant maintenance functional location
object.
Premise: This refers to the spatial unit or the enclosed structure to which the utility
services have to be rendered. It is attached to the connection object and takes the
address of the connection object but the premise also has other attributes attached to it.
For e.g., in case of apartment complexes, you can attach the owner of the complex to
the premise and when the premise is empty and if the services are still consumed, the
apartment owner will be billed. The premise can also hold additional information about
the spatial unit like if it’s rental property, how many occupants etc. Note that this may
sound like a duplicate of connection object, but there are some differences, because
connection object is all about location data where premise is additional information
about the actual structure and space within.

Installation: It is at the installation level various billing schema, rate tariffs and billing
procedures are attached for the services provided. The installation groups various
devices based on registers etc so that specific billing values like rate category can be
maintained for the services. Also, every installation is attached to the premise so that
actual supply point can be linkedwith the site where the services are provided. Point to
note that is there is a one to one relationship between installation and contract.
Point of Delivery: This is a globally identified unique service point where a utility
service is provided. In a deregulated market (a topic in itself), there are multiple service
providers providing a customer different services. For e.g,, a utility company will be
providing the actual electricity and any associated infrastructure around it whereas
another provider will be able to provide billing, customer service and other related
services. So, in a deregulated market, it becomes important to uniquely identify service
point and it is done using the point of delivery data object. There is a 1:1 relationship
between point of delivery and installation.

Device Category: This groups the various devices in to different categories based on
the technical characteristics. This enables us to maintain the data that is common for a
group of devices, there by grouping them in a logical way. Some examples of device
categories are Meter, Transformer, Pressure regulator etc.