SAP S/4HANA Utilities is an established meter-to-cash solution, covering the requirements of different market roles within the utilities industry in various regions around the world, both in regulated and deregulated markets. Key features of SAP S/4HANA Utilities is as below:
Basic Functions to manage addresses, regional structures, generate schedules for meter reading, budget billing, and billing.
Manage business partners, contracts and contract accounts, connection objects and the premises, installations, points of delivery and device locations that they contain.
Manage the installations, meter readings, and the certification of all devices for a utilities company.
The remote capabilities of smart meters can be leveraged for the processes in SAP S/4HANA Utilities by using the integration of MDM (meter data management) systems. This significantly improves the automation and quality of the processes.
Contract billing covers the standard divisions: Electricity, gas, water/wastewater, waste and district heating. All services can be grouped together to calculate and charge taxes, charges, duties and a single invoice can be raised for all services
Energy Data Management (EDM) provides functions for processing equidistant time series data (for example: values every 30 minutes) such as equidistant readings, consumption values, prices, all types of factors, gas compression factors, calorific values, and so on. EDM includes the following functions and processes:
Central database for time series data (Energy Data Repository)
Settlement and schedule management using the EDM Settlement Workbench
Calculations based on EDM profiles using the EDM Calculation Workbench
Billing of profiles using real-time-pricing billing (RTP billing) and time-of-use billing (TOU billing)
Our experts will help you in streamlining the entire utility business process and help your organisation to leverage the following Key Benefits of SAP Utilities:
Drive the transformation towards sustainability for your utilities business
Integrate AI across the utilities value chain
Deliver personalised customer experiences to build trust
Unlock new utilities revenue streams
Get the best performance and returns from your utilities assets