Invoicing

Use
You can use this accounting business process to invoice billing documents from
billing in SAP for Utilities (IS-U), together with documents from billing in the Sales
and Distribution (SD) component and from external systems (for example,
heating expenses settlement or telecommunication). You can use various criteria
to select bills for printing.
When creating the bill, the bill line items are transferred to the print layout you
have created. After executing billing and invoicing, you can use the outsorting
function to outsort billing documents or orders for bill printout from automatic
processing. The system puts the outsorted billing documents and print orders in
an exception list. Documents and orders must be checked and manually released
before invoicing or printout. You define an outsorting group in the contract or in
the contract account, behind which you can define special validations.
Once the conditions for the checks are met, the document is outsorted in billing
or invoicing, and is automatically locked for further processing. This means that
invoicing cannot take place during checks in billing.
You can use the invoicing reversal to execute a full reversal, or an invoicing
reversal. After invoicing you have two options: Reversal of invoicing or full
reversal (reversal of invoicing and billing).
Prerequisites
Billing documents must exist from the Billing/Convergent Billing process. To
include external billing documents (copy billing documents from external
systems) a suitable interface program must be provided, which creates
standardized billing documents from the documents. These billing documents
can then be processed in invoicing.
Process Flow
The following business process runs in SAP R/3:
1. Schedule invoice run
You can execute invoicing individually, in mass runs, or in parallel mass runs.
2. Invoice or simulate contract account
When you execute invoicing, the corresponding documents are generated. When
you execute a simulation, you can check the result of a later invoicing, without
making account-based changes.
3. Schedule bill printing run
You can print the print documents individually or in a mass run.
4. Print or simulate bill.
5. Process outsorted documents
6. Reverse print document
Result
Once the bill has been created, it is sent to the bill recipient. You can continue
processing the bill receivables in FI-CA. The bill amounts are paid by the
customer, debited by the utility company, or dunned.

Billing of Unmetered Services

Use

You can use this business scenario to print, bill and invoice public lighting and other services,
which do not require meter readings (such as cable television).

Contract billing allows you to map all possible combinations of different billing steps. The
dynamic rate determination allows you to quickly adjust complete customer groups for new
rates in the company.

Invoicing provides the necessary processes for creating bills, in connection with a contract
billing. It guarantees the integration of Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) in
SAP Utilities (IS-U).

Purpose

Using this component you can, after executing billing and invoicing, outsort billing
documents or orders for bill printout from automatic processing. The outsorting process,
which occurs after billing or invoicing, places the outsorted documents/orders on an
exception list. The agent must check the documents/orders and either release them explicitly
before invoicing or printing, or reverse them. An outsorting group is defined in the contract or
in the contract account, behind which you can store special validation checks. When the
conditions for the checks are met, the document is outsorted during billing or invoicing, and
is automatically locked for further processing. This means that invoicing cannot take place in
billing during checks.

Prerequisites

To use this business process you must have defined the rules for outsorting in billing /
invoicing, and have created a billing document.

Process Flow
The following business process runs in SAP R/3:

1. Assign outsorting check group

2. Process outsorted documents

Result

As a result of this outsorting process, released documents exist (bill /print order), which can
now be further processed. When a billing document is released, it can be invoiced, and when
an invoicing document is released, the bill can be printed.

When the invoicing document is released, invoicing is carried out again internally. This is
required to determine the current due dates for the bill and to post in contract accounts
receivable and payable. However, by this time the data situation may have changed for
invoicing additional documents might now be included for joint invoicing. In this case,
outsorting can still reoccur even though you have just released an invoicing document.