SAP Utilities Billing
SAP IS-U billing guides covering rates, operands, facts, budget billing and bill creation.
What this hub covers
Billing in SAP Utilities (IS-U) transforms meter and contract data into calculated charges. The process depends on rates, operands, facts, billing periods and controls for budget or partial billing. This hub groups those building blocks so consultants can trace how business rules become billable amounts before invoicing creates the customer-facing document and FI-CA posting.
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Billing Class
The billing class can be seen as a very high level selection criteria that differentiates between different billing scenarios for different customers...
Read guide →Billing Facts
Generally spoken: facts contain timedependend operand values. Facts are always linked to one operand and depending on the operand type the...
Read guide →Operands
All operand types are maintained in table TE375 - this table is defined with delivery class 'S', that means all entries are maintained by SAP, it's...
Read guide →Rate Type
Rate types do have at least two main purposes: They classify different categories of registers (e.g. on-peak and off-peak) for the device...
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Functionality (Bill Creation)
When you start invoicing, enter the posting parameters document date and posting date. If you do not enter a date, the system proposes the current...
Settlement Type
The settlement type in contract account represents the business transaction (such as invoicing, automatic account maintenance, cash desk and payment...
Processing Budget Billing Plans
When periodic billing documents are invoiced, a new budget billing plan is created automatically for contracts that were billed periodically. The...
Partial Bill Creation
This function: Generates contract accounting documents for bill receivables from budget billings Settles these documents in account maintenance...
Joint Creation of Bill and Partial Bill
You can create bills and partial bills together. For example, in the case of a monthly partial bill creation, you can also invoice the queuing bills....
Budget Billing Request
You use this function to format data for the bill printout. Integration To request budget billing amounts, you must use the Budget Billing Plan...
Collective Bill
The collective bill combines several documents, such as print documents or budget billing requests. The total of these documents is posted...