Introducing the Business Scenario
Understanding Billing in SAP Utilities Data Model
Understanding Billing Master Data
Exploring Discounts Surcharges
Analyzing Billing
Exploring Manual Billing
Explaining Invoicing
Understanding Clearing Control
Understanding Budget Billing Amounts
Explaining Bill Printout
Explaining Special Billing Features
Understanding Sales Statistics - Data and Analytics Integration
Understanding IS-U Billing & Invoicing Enhancement and Extensibility
Understanding Backbilling - Recommendation for the Billing Schema
Introducing Collective Bill
Explaining Real-Time Pricing Billing
Understanding Prepayment
Executing a Utilities Meter to Cash Process

Understanding Real-Time Pricing Billing Dynamic Pricing

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to understand dynamic pricing.

Dynamic Pricing

SAP S/4HANA Utilities – Functional Building Blocks

Overview of functional building blocks within SAP S/4HANA Utilities, highlighting operational, data management, financial, customer service, metering, marketing, and communication aspects.

Maintenance commitment for SAP S/4HANA until the end of 2040.

(Source: https://news.sap.com/2020/02/sap-s4hana-maintenance-2040-clarity-choice-sap-business-suite-7/)

Dynamic Pricing

Energy Data Management

For the complete timeseries (profile) data management.

  • Single or mass process upload (incl. Monitoring)
  • Validation, Estimation, Editing (VEE) of profile data
  • Status administration and Versioning
  • Visualization of profile data (tabular, graphic)
  • Formula handling / profiling

Billing

For the robust and flexible billing of any metering data.

  • Native integration into Energy Data Management
  • Definition, execution and monitoring of profile based products
  • Examples: Time-of-Use, Dynamic Pricing, Time-of-Use Exceptions etc.
  • Integration of external providers, for example, spot market

Dynamic Pricing – Time-of-Use Billing

Graphic explaining dynamic pricing and time-of-use billing for energy, illustrating data management, billing flexibility, and time-based energy usage trends.
Illustrating dynamic pricing and flexible billing for energy usage, with detailed time-of-use examples and weekly breakdowns of peak and off-peak periods.

Dynamic Pricing – Spot Market Pricing

Illustration explaining dynamic pricing in energy markets, showing data management, spot market rates, and flexible billing workflow.

SAP S/4HANA Utilities – Prosumer Settlement

Diagram illustrating the concept of prosumer energy settlement, showcasing production and consumption calculations for groups using flexible formulas and aggregation parameters.
Learning

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