• New: SAP for Utilities: New Training Sessions for Smart Metering and SAP Intelligent Metering for Germany Available (German only)

Next sessions planned between April-May.

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• New: Radio Session on Changing the Utilities Customer Engagement with DTE Energy, OpenText and SAP

Online: March, 22nd 9 a.m (Pacific Time)    

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• openSAP: SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA

Online: April 11, 2016

SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA (Update Q2/2016) opens with a new module including updates SAP BW powered by SAP HANA 7.5. To support your company’s analysis, reporting and other business intelligence functions, a data warehouse acts as a central entry point and single point of truth for various data sources. SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA (Update Q2/2016)will introduce the renewed concepts and possibilities of SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA.

Note: This course is not utilities-specific!

Register here

• Webinar for Partners: Digital Customer Innovation for Utilities with the SAP Hybris Solutions Portfolio

Online: Monday, April 4, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (GTM 2 - Amsterdam,Berlin, Rome, Stockholm,Vienna)

Learn why SAP decided to strengthen the portfolio with sap hybris customer solutions to answer the industries requirements. We show some demos of the SAP Hybris product portfolio for Utilities for call center, self service, commerce and customer engagement. Finally, we plan to discuss our roadmap and the opportunities for our partners and SAP. Registration via SAP PartnerEdge

• Classroom Training - SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities (MCF)

SAP Labs in Montreal Canada: Monday, April 18, 2016 and Tuesday, April 19, 2016

We are pleased to announce the second official classroom training for North America, WNAUMC - Multichannel Foundation for Utilities will be offered at SAP Labs in Montreal, Canada on the 18th and 19th of April 2016. Registration is now open here.

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Past news bites:

• openSAP: Digital Transformation Across the Extended Supply Chain

Online: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 09:00 (UTC) to Wednesday, May 04, 2016 09:30 (UTC)

Digitization is reinventing the global economy: individuals, businesses, and societies are becoming interconnected in real time, leading to a new digital economy that is more collaborative, intelligent, responsive, and efficient, with dramatic increases in productivity and economic value. In this subsequent 6--week course, we will cover trends and challenges faced by businesses executives across the extended supply chain and learn how SAP extended supply chain solutions address these challenges. The course is structured along the SAP extended supply chain value map. Each week will cover a different business priority of the value map.

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• For registered partners only: "SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management – Simplification and Innovation for Utilities Industry" – 25 February, 2016

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• "SAP's Digital Utility Framework - Reimagine Your Utility" Featuring SAP's Global VP of Henry Bailey

This webcast offers SAP’s perspective on where the industry will go and how SAP contributes to the evolution of the Digital Energy Network.

Thursday, February 4 at 12 p.m. ET - 1:00 p.m. ET

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• SAP and OSIsoft Enable Innovative Internet of Things (IoT) Scenarios

DistribuTECH 2016livesession that will also be streamed for our virtual viewers to learn how SAP and OSIsoft enable Innovative Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios through IT/OT integration and convergence.

Wednesday, February 10 at 9 AM Pacific / 12 Noon Eastern

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• Traditional IT in a Non-Traditional World

Radio Info Session Live and on-demand with CMS Energy, IDC and SAP

Tuesday, October 27 at 9 AM Pacific / 12 Noon Eastern

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• Digital Transformation for Utilities: Customer Service Innovations

Radio Info Session Live and on-demand

Tuesday, October 6 at 9 AM Pacific / 12 Noon Eastern

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• SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities: Two-Day Classroom Training

Walldorf, Germany 2015: Oct. 5-6 (German)

Target Audience: Solution Consultants, Developers

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You might ask yourself how you, as an SAP customer, can continuously influence and improve SAP products especially for the utilities industry?

Our answer is the current Customer Connection program for SAP for Utilities.

SAP customers have great ideas and tons of experience to add value to SAP Products and Solutions. With Customer Connection you can influence the SAP products you are using productively. This is the channel for small enhancements & improvements. The improvement delivery takes place via SAP Notes and Support Packages.

These developments are based on a close collaboration between SAP customers and SAP employees. For this - proven and well established collaboration models via SAP User Groups/Customer Communities are defined.

What do I have to do to participate?

1. Register or login  under the following link:SAP for Utilities.
   This way, you will be informed about the current status and progress of the project.
   
   From end of April 2016 onward you will find the latest slides, on the page  SAP for Utilities under Documents and Events.
   
   You will find out more about how you can enter improvement requests, will receive invitations to upcoming speaker corner sessions (improvement request owner explains his request).
   
   
2. The influence space will be open for you to submit your own improvement requests and subscribe for other customer's requests on May 4th 2016 until July 15th 2016.
   
   Note: only requests (ideas) with 5 or more subscribers will be qualified for the selection phase.

Here is an overview of the whole process and below is a detailed timeline of the project.

The collection of the ideas will start on May 4th, 2016. If you want to learn more about the project pleased feel free invited to participate in the Kick-off webinar on the same day. Please have a look at our project timeline:

We are looking forward to your contribution!

Make also sure you visit our microforum session on April 12th and 13th at the 11th International SAP Conference for Utilities in the Netherlands.

We'll keep you posted!

Yours sincerely

Holger Schütt and Max Streibl

Hi ,

We have multiple company codes in an Utility company.

My requirement is to block all SAP transactions processing for a company code without affecting processing of customers in other company codes.

I am planning to restrict users from accessing any of the SAP transactions for a particular company code via SAP Security.

Is there any efficient way to achieve same ?

Kindly provide experts views.

Cheers,

Manoj K

Hi,

When we try to execute transaction FPCMAP (Capacity Planning) in Production, we get the error message that the sistem/client is not modifiable.

This is a transaction used to adjust the maximum capacity of the different collection activities when executing dunning.

This "adjustment" is a task that would need to be updated very frequently (probably daily) and we don't understand why it can not be updated directly in a Production system.

Is there any standard way for the end-user to configure this transacction directly in a Production Environment

Best regards,

Marilia

Learn more about Migration Strategieslive at the International SAP Conference for Utilitiesin The Hague, Netherlands on April 12th at 14:05 (Microforum Theater 1) and April 13th at 12:20 (Microforum Theater 2) or make an appointment by contacting me directly: sabine.wachter@sap.com

SAP LT Migration Strategies moving to S/4HANA

The constantly evolving business and technology challenges demand from companies to realign their corporate and IT strategy by simplifying and accelerating processes and reducing infrastructure costs. SAP S/4HANA is the next-generation business suite characterized by simplification and efficiency and designed to meet the needs of any industries. This session will mainly focus on the consolidation of your current regional SAP Business Suite landscape and the planned selective data transformation into one global SAP S/4HANA system. It will showcase how you can use SAP LT Technology and Services for a selective, value-based migration of legal entities and/or single applications, as well as IT system consolidation into SAP’s S/4HANA product family.

This session will explain the supported business scenarios, the technical procedure and technology used.  Furthermore will the session provide additional information on SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (SLT) used to address real-time replication requirements by moving and integrating data from different sources and present the Data InHub concept to take full advantage of this innovation driven approach.

Hello there

Can someone explain to me how system calculates estimated read? In configuration, the only Estimation Parameters maintained is "Estimate based on previous reading for validation". There is no "Overestimation factor in percent" maintained. Also we don't have any user-exit written for this activity. But so how system able to calculate estimate read for us.

Thanks

JJ

Hello there

Can someone explain to me how system calculates estimated read? In configuration, the only Estimation Parameters maintained is "Estimate based on previous reading for validation". There is no "Overestimation factor in percent" maintained. Also we don't have any user-exit written for this activity. But somehow system is able to calculate estimate read for us.

Thanks

JJ

Introduction:

The transaction code ES31 is used to update the rate category at the installation level. In this article we shall work out updating the rate category at the installation level through programming.

Steps through SAP transaction ES31:

ES31 Initial Screen

Under Installation Time-dependent data section, provide new rate category and click ‘SAVE’.

Steps through a program: Sample Code

DATA : wa_obj                      TYPE isu01_instln,

            wa_auto                     TYPE isu01_instln_auto,

            l_installation               TYPE anlage,

            l_new_rate_category TYPE tariftyp.

*-----Open the Installation in change mode-----*

          CALL FUNCTION 'ISU_S_INSTLN_PROVIDE'

               EXPORTING

                    x_anlage                  = l_installation  "Pass Installation Number Here!

                    x_keydate                = '20160105'     "This is the Key Date

                    x_wmode                 = '2'                   "Open up the installation in change mode

               IMPORTING

                   y_obj                         = wa_obj

                   y_auto                       = wa_auto

               EXCEPTIONS

                    not_found                 = 1

                    invalid_keydate        = 2

                    foreign_lock             = 3

                    not_authorized         = 4

                    invalid_wmode         = 5

                   general_fault             = 6

                   OTHERS                   = 7.

             IF sy-subrc NE 0.

*--------------Handle failures

                  RETURN.

             ELSE.

                  SORT wa_obj-eanlh BY bis DESCENDING.

                  READ TABLE wa_obj-eanlh INDEX 1

                             ASSIGNING FIELD-SYMBOL(<lfs_eanlh>).

                  <lfs_eanlh>-tariftyp = l_new_rate_category. "Pass the new rate category here!

             ENDIF.

*-----Instructions to save the changes-----*

wa_auto-contr-okcode                = 'SAVE'.

wa_auto-contr-use-okcode         = 'X'.

wa_obj-auto-contr-use-okcode   = 'X'.

wa_obj-auto-contr-okcode          = 'SAVE'.

*-----Provide the updated values and instructions for update-----*

          CALL FUNCTION 'ISU_S_INSTLN_CHANGE'

               EXPORTING

                    x_anlage                 = l_installation

                    x_keydate               = '20160105'

                    x_prorate                = 'X'

                    x_upd_online          = 'X'

                    x_no_dialog            = 'X'

                    x_auto                     = wa_auto

                    x_obj                       = wa_obj

               EXCEPTIONS

                    not_found                = 1

                    foreign_lock             = 2

                    not_authorized         = 3

                    cancelled                 = 4

                    input_error               = 5

                    general_fault            = 6

                    OTHERS                  = 7.

               IF sy-subrc NE 0.

*---------------Handle failures

               ENDIF.

Hello,

I have a disconnected installation.  Disconnection date  is 01.03.2016 and have '13' mr results. I created a move-out for this installation at 01.04.2016. System automatically create final billing with the mr results '13' at 01.03.2016.

And my question is, any customizing for this scenario ? Because, i dont want to create final billing automatically.

Regards,

Okan

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User Management

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Enhancements

User Self-Service in standard SAP Gateway (please check very nice video tutorial)

Integration with SAP IDM

User Provisioning with SAP IDM

User Interface

Responsive UI Application Configuration

Responsive UI Application Setup for IS-U only Scenario

Desktop UI Application Configuration

OData Enhancement

Adding Custom Fields

Adding Custom Logic

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AngularJS OData Consumption

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• Cancelled:  2nd Official MCF training for NA WNAUMC Multichannel Foundation for Utilities  will be offered in Montreal, Canada on April 18-19 2016. See announcement blog for more details.
• Updated: WDEUMC (SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities) training sessions will continue in 2016. Planned training dates at the International SAP training center in Walldorf/Germany: 3-4 March, 20-21 June, 29-30 Sept, 28-29. Courses will be offered in English and German. For more details and registration visit  https://training.sap.com/shop/course/wdeumc-sap-multichannel-foundation-for-utilities-classroom-010-de-en/
• New: WDEUMC will also be offered for the first time in Austria as a virtual live classroom session on 25/26 April 2016 (use same link as above)
• Updated:  SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities and Public Sector – SAP Help Portal Page
• Learning Map for Consultants / Early Knowledge Transfer Material (EKT_MULTICH10CONS) >>LINK to SAP Learning Hub

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Hi,

Is there any table which would give me the information of FICA document and its corresponding FICO document in reference with Reconciliation key.

Thanks,

Pramod.

Hi,

I am passing the CRM product's discount values to the IS-U from CRM, and these values are getting replicated into IS-U at installation facts perfectly via MDT.

Issue:

If we do not pass any value from CRM , even then the node is getting executed and operand is being created with Zero values.

See the screen shot.

How can we stop this node execution from config?

Hi All,

As part of Final billing Dunning activity, we are creating Write-off and Statistical Write-offs for all the open items once it reaches the last level in the dunning procedure.

My question is, we want to release these statistical write off items to collection agency(CA) as part of dunning activity. I tried adding this activity along with the activity that creates write off and statistical write off items in the same dunning level(by giving sequential number as 1 and 2).  With this configuration it is releasing the original open items to CA but not the statistical items created as part of other activity.

Please let me know how to release statistical write off items to collection agency in the same dunning level without releasing the original items.

Thank you

Sruthi

WiFi, emergency button, eCar charging points, sensors to measure temperature, particulars in the air or the dense traffic - in Karlsruhe all of that comes in one smart lamp post. The cloud solution collecting and analyzing the data from these services is the SAP HANA cloud platform!

Watch this video how the German energy provider EnBW is setting the example by using technology to enable an infrastructure tailored to the needs of the city of tomorrow.

Hear a presentation from EnBW at the International SAP Conference for Utilities taking place from April 11-13, 2016 in The Hague, The Netherlands:

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 5 p.m. in the Internet of Things track: Smart Cities and Their Data presented by Daniel Schneider, EnBW and Reiner Bildmayer SAP

Here is an interesting article based on the interview with Miguel Gaspar, SAP.

Engerati: "Utilities are undergoing a major business transformation as the world moves from the use of carbon-based energy to much cleaner sources in an attempt to reduce carbon emissions and replace dwindling fossil fuel supplies. As a result, the transmission and distribution networks in particular have to adapt to the need of matching demand with intermittent supply.

The energy sector has no choice but to deploy new technologies, develop and drive more collaborative business models and engage a new type of customer who is actively participating in the generation and storage of renewable energy. Utilities need to find innovative and cost-effective ways in which to manage new energy systems effectively

Creating a platform of learning

Forward-thinking utilities are keen to make the necessary changes in order to prosper in the new energy future. While recognising the challenges and opportunities that accompany the transformation, utilities want to materialise the vision they have for their businesses, explains Miguel Gaspar Silva, EMEA Industry Director Utilities, SAP. He explains: “They want to learn and understand their roadmap to make this vision a reality within their organisations. Utilities are seeking a platform to gain a better understanding of what to expect and what they still need to do in order to turn challenges into opportunities (...)" Read the full article here>

Hello Experts,

At level of cash journal t-code FPCJ, when the action "post" is chosen our customer needs to :

1- Change default value for field BLART of the payment document created (document P1)

2- Create a specific document (P2) to include a specific tax, this document must be reconciled by the same payment document P1 (so we have to change the amount of the document P1 to include the tax amount),

I use the BAPI  BAPI_CTRACDOCUMENT_CREATE the create the Tax document, but I don't know at wich level I can change BLART and amount for document P1 and finally reconcile P2 by P1

Have you any idea of event (FQEVENTS) or any place to do that ?

Thanks

Hello Experts,

We have implemented SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities and Public Sector (a responsive design app) in our system.

The app is running fine in the browser with the below url.

https://XXXXXX/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/sap/umcui5_mobile/index.html

Now we want the same application as hybrid mobile app.

For that we have created an application “com.sap.umc.mobile” in SMP Admin and maintained the required configuration. We have created the required backend connection for ODATA and test of those backend connection are successful.

CRM_UTILITIES_UMC,CRM_UTILITIES_UMC_PUBLIC_SRV,CRM_UTILITIES_UMC_URM,ERP_UTILITIES_UMC,ERP_UTILITIES_UMC_PUBLIC_SRV,USERMANAGEMENT,

VBI_APPL_DEF_SRV,VBI_GEOCODER_SRV

Now we have created a cordova project and installed the required Kapsel plugin.

We have downloaded the code of the application “UMCUI5_MOBILE”, “sap.umc.mobile.foundation” & “sap.umc.mobile.public”, placed those code in the www folder of that cordova project and modified the index.html , index.js accordingly.

Now while running the index.html file in browser, all the files are loading properly, except the “metadata”. We are getting the below error.

“Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 (Forbidden)

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://xxxx/com.sap.umc.mobile/CRM_UTILITIES_UMC_URM/$metadata. Response for preflight has invalid HTTP status code 403”

Also we have successfully able to build the apk file and installed the same in device.

While running the apk file we are successfully able to register the device in our SMP system,but the application is not loading properly, we are only able to see the background image.

While device debugging we found the that the same error is happening in the device also. The metadata are not able to loaded in the device.

Are we missing anything?

Any help will be great.

Thanks & Regard,

Souvik Saha

Hello,

When we save a Meterreading (in EABL/G tables), Tolerance limits are checked by FM ISU_VALID_SAP05_07_TOLERANCE (using Table TE121).

Is there the same kind of control when we save a consumption in a EDM profil (Table EPROFVAL*) ?

Do we have to use "Consistency Check Group" specify on the profil header ?

Thanks

Mathieu

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SAP MCF in a minute!

New:SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities and Public Sector(MCF) Explained!(Jan. 2016)

New:SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities (MCF) - Customers around the world (Feb. 2016)

Do we Need a Mobile App for Customer Self Service? (July 2015)

Multichannel self-service for Utilities from SAP is about more than just adding apps (Sept. 2013)

Release Info (Back to top)

Updated:SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities and Public Sector (MCF) - Support package and release information (April 2016)

Technical Info (Back to top)

User Management

Overview

Enhancements

User Self-Service in standard SAP Gateway (please check very nice video tutorial)

Integration with SAP IDM

User Provisioning with SAP IDM

User Interface

Responsive UI Application Configuration

Responsive UI Application Setup for IS-U only Scenario

Desktop UI Application Configuration

OData Enhancement

Adding Custom Fields

Adding Custom Logic

Adding New OData Entity

Analytics

Web Analytics Integration and Visualization in SAP Lumira

General Channel Analytics and Reporting

OData Services Integration

AngularJS OData Consumption

.NET and C# OData Consumption

Mobile Packaged Applications

New: iOs Packaged Application Setup for Development

New: Android Packaged Application Setup for Development

Best Practices (Back to top)

SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities: First reference customers / Erste Referenzkunden Aug 2015

Learning Material  (Back to top)

• Cancelled:  2nd Official MCF training for NA WNAUMC Multichannel Foundation for Utilities  will be offered in Montreal, Canada on April 18-19 2016. See announcement blog for more details.
• Updated: WDEUMC (SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities) training sessions will continue in 2016. Planned training dates at the International SAP training center in Walldorf/Germany: 3-4 March, 20-21 June, 29-30 Sept, 28-29. Courses will be offered in English and German. For more details and registration visit  https://training.sap.com/shop/course/wdeumc-sap-multichannel-foundation-for-utilities-classroom-010-de-en/
• New: WDEUMC will also be offered for the first time in Austria as a virtual live classroom session on 25/26 April 2016 (use same link as above)
• Updated:  SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities and Public Sector – SAP Help Portal Page
• Learning Map for Consultants / Early Knowledge Transfer Material (EKT_MULTICH10CONS) >>LINK to SAP Learning Hub

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Hello,

Does any one know how to use Debt Recovery Management and it's integration with FICA.

We want to use the functionality of submitting to internal collection department and we need a detailed description of the different steps to perform to implement this functionality.

Regards,

Amine.