Hello Experts

I need your quick help

I have configured account display main/sub against reverse clearing 05 as z002/1000 initially same was updating right in fpl9.

But later I have to change the main/sub as z002/0010 due to some reason in account display setting but now revefrse of any document is not showing with main/sub z002/0010 it is still showing z002/1000

I am not getting root cause of it.

Regards

Amit

Hi Experts

Can anyone please tell the step by step procedure of Waste management & recycling

How its work ?

What to create first ?

Step involved in Waste Management & recycling ?

Example in MM : -

First Create PR - Send RFQ - Collect Quotation from vendor - Price Comparison - PO - Release PO - PO Send to Vendor  - Material Receive - GRN.

In the same way, can anyone tell the process flow & what are the things we have to maintain  and in what manner or sequence

Example for PO

Need Company - Plant- Pur Org- Pur Group- Vendor - Material - Storage Location

In the same way, can anyone tell the what to create for completing the proceed like e g : what is container & use of it y we create & where to assign it

Please revert back waiting for your reply

Regards

Idrees

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idrees.nazimuddin@gmail.com   

Hello friends,

I have a requirement to create some meter reading orders in SAP and pull them in to SAP Workmanager 62 mobile application.

Can some one give complete steps for creating meter reading orders in SAP or provide me links to the full documentation ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Sudheer

We apply posting lock & incoming payment lock when account goes under bankruptcy.

We find that though the locks are applied at CA level , payments can still be posted to account through payment lot FP05.

I was under the impression that if there is incoming payment lock or posting lock , payment will go to clarification list.

Can the experts confirm if this is standard functionality ?

Our business users state that this used to happen in the past. .

Appreciate any advise on this.

Regards

Satish

Hello Colleagues,

We're system testing using Mass Dunning by Collection Strategy.

Approximately 10-15% of the Contract Accounts are not being Dunned. These Accounts are not triggering Steps associated with Capacity Balancing.

Has anyone else encountered this situation? Is there a Buffering setting that needs to be tweaked?

Any feedback will be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Ivor

Miquel Carbó comes from Barcelona and in accordance with family tradition lives with his wife and daughter in its gothic quarter, in

a building from the nineteenth century that incorporates both a palace from medieval times and ancient structures from roman times.

He has been with SAP for almost twenty years and is currently working in the Utilities industry business unit with an intense focus on Latin America. This has enabled him to develop a passion for this continent that started during his university studies.

Tell us about your career? Where and how did it start?

• It all started when I was hired by a company who were installing a new system called R/2, which was Henkel Spain in the early nineties. When R/3, this is the new client – server version of the system, appeared on the market in the mid-nineties, I joined a service company to support implementations as a consultant and in 1997 SAP Spain offered me  a position in its field service team. About two years later, I joined the local support team for the new industry solution created for Utilities (IS-U) and, since then I have held a number of different positions in the Utilities sector at SAP.

What are your daily tasks, current projects and ideas for the future?

• It is about finding a good balance between the different tasks. These tasks include field enablement, customer engagement and other knowledge support activities for Latin America countries, whilst retaining some deep focus tasks, such as the SAP for Nuclear focus group and activities.  

Tell me about yourself: What do you like to do in your free time?

• Family, watching football (in the stadiums, not on TV) and reading. I like reading so much that I used to travel with 3 books: the current one I am reading, a backup and another one in case I didnt like the backup … now I have an ebook! 

Where do you think the industry is going in the next 25 years?

• The software industry will become more commodity and globally consolidated in line with trends seen in other industries, such as the automotive or chemical industries.

What has been the biggest change in the industry?

• We are in a period of transition, where currently demand is driving generation, but at the end of this process´, generation will drive demand. This will result in the energy model being redefined.  This is not my personal view, but comes from a whitepaper written by the Smart Grid Program team of Eandis (Energy Distribution Company of Belgium) called “The Journey to “Green” Energy” about two years ago which had a significant impact on me.

How can SAP help the Utilities industry over the next 25 years?

• Definition is an ongoing process  and I think that SAP is moving with the industry and not going „ahead or behind“ it. I believe that energy companies see SAP as a strategic partner for this transition and we are collaborating with some of them to move towards the new energy model.

Thank you very much for the interview. I wish you a happy and successful future both within and beyond SAP!

Hi Experts,

When we post any invoice it takes main transactions as 0100 (periodic bill) or 0200 or 0300. is there any user exit where we can modify this main transaction ?

My requirement is, i want to assign a different main transaction for a particular LIT ( which is posting relevant ), but i am not able to do this as by default it is taking 0100.

Thanks,

Faisal

Hi,

Is it possible to re-run a switch document? If Yes, how can this be done?

Thanks,

Anand.

Just recently the topic of nuclear power has been in the news again – Watts Bar Nuclear started up and is producing Carbon Free Energy after nearly 45 years of construction.

(source Wikipedia)

A victim of declining energy needs in the 80’s the plant’s construction was only recently restarted.  Couple Watts Bar with other US and foreign nuclear construction that is underway and one can see that a nuclear renaissance is underway!

Still on first glance and dependent on your point of view you may be cringing - but I’d offer you shouldn't and many others don't today.

With more and more of the emphasis being placed on Carbon Free Energy sources the realization that base load sources that are carbon free are essential to the global goals being met.  Solar and Wind are carbon free yet the challenge of day night cycles or times of low wind are not yet addressed with today's limited storage technologies. So past deniers of nuclear are coming around to recognize the contribution of nuclear to a stable baseload source of electricity in the grid.  As well nuclear power is the one source that has the unique characteristic of being highly compact and engineered for long life times.

One significant drawback to the nuclear industry has been the concern for fuel storage.  Most of the fuel from reactors is stored on site in wet or dry cask storage and will remain that way until the US resolves the science and politics surrounding long term storage.  The back story to that issue has to do with the decision not to reprocess fuel in the way that most of the world does and has for over 40 years.  The fuel from a reactor is consumed over a period of several fuel cycles.  These cycles are generally 1-2 years each and in the lifetime of a given fuel bundle it moves around in the core through 4-5 cycles to maximize its output and contribution to the physics of the overall core.  When it finally is removed from the core it has transformed it's very makeup into a host of different elements many of which are valuable to produce additional energy.

It has always struck me as strange as to why our national strategy has been to park this elsewhere valued resource in a wet or dry cask storage. It seems that concerns of security or proliferation of materials can be addressed here in similar ways as France and Japan have.  We stockpile our fuel on site and in essence we are increasing the exposure to redirection of materials –

So the next time you see a familiar cooling tower - don't think of the challenges of nuclear power, think of the Carbon Free Energy that nuclear power offers to the world and how you can influence change in the conversation.

Best Regards Until Next Time rds

Hi All,

Is there any standard SAP report for Cumulative Demand and Interval Meter Reading configuration ?

Thanks,

Krishanu.

Hi,

     In our Requirement whenever Export Energy Quantity is Greater than Import Energy Quantity the Difference should be added in Installation Facts with the help of INFACT06 Variant. We are using Dynamic Period Control because of that we are getting wrong Consumption values whenever below given Scenario happens.

In the Last Month's Estimated Bill the Difference Between the Export Energy and Import Energy Consumption of 300 Units is saved in the Installation Fact and that value is getting added in the Next Month's Actual Read of Export Energy Consumption Where as it shouldn't.

We need to Restrict INFACT06 Variant value of Estimated Month getting added in Next Month's Actual Reads. Suggestions Please.

Thanks.

Karthick

Dear Utilities Community,

We are excited to invite you to the upcoming customer webinar where EDF Renewables will share their IoT journey and business benefit together with SAP.

What is it about:

Internet of Things (IoT) provides a connected world, improving business performance by connecting directly with customers and operating in real time.   Businesses can achieve greater visibility in identifying both new opportunities and risks.

Achieving this immense insight and turning it into immediate action is where SAP’s IoT strategy distinguishes itself from all others.

SAP support our customers in re-imagining their new business processes and delivering business outcomes that are necessary to compete in today’s high velocity environment.

You will get an overview on SAP’s IoT  Utilites Portfolio presented by Frank Ruland, Global Head of Ecosystem and Channels for Energy and Natural Resources Industries– and EDF Renewables will share with you their IoT journey with SAP, managing their wind turbines, measuring their output, speeds, maintenance costs and efficiencies with SAP IoT Connecter by OSIsoft.

EDF Renewables, based in San Diego, is owned by the parent company EDF in France.  They are SAP’s first utility customer to be live connecting IT/OT and geo-spatial data together using SAP IoT Connector by OSIsoft.  They run this on the SAP HANA Platform together with Advanced Analytics. EDF Renewables is also the recipient of this year’s 2016 SAP HANA Innovation Award.

Virtual Customer Webinar: Digital Utilities Best Practices

Watch it live, right from your office.

When: July 21, 2016

Time and dial in link will follow soon.

Here you can find the press release on how SAP Expands Its Internet of Things Offerings and Partner Ecosystem, including the EDF Renewable Energy example.

Please feel free to spread the word!

Best regards,

Melanie Fiolka

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Introduction

While fulfilling different payment scenarios requests for a customer, I ran into an interesting business situation: since Croatia is not yet adopting SEPA-DD (Single Euro Payment Area - Direct Debit) format, the functionality itself if supported by all banks that operate in this area, but every single one has a different implementation of the functionality.

After acquiring all needed documentation, I had to decide which way to go: try to implement and modify the built-in direct debit functionality or develop sets of programs. Either way, I had to do a blocks of three programs, which are also a three sections I will describe in this document:

• Bank to Customer: New and revoked direct debit contracts
• Customer to Bank: Invoices to charge
• Bank to Customer: Information about successfull and rejected payments

I decided to make a set of three programs, one for each phase, for each bank.

Prerequisites

• Configured incomming payment methods that will be used
• Entered banks that will be used
• Configured return lots

File 1: Bank to Customer: New and revoked direct debit contracts

Theory around this is quite easy: client comes to the bank and opens the direct debit contract. At defined date, bank send the file to the billing company. Usualy, the file consists of several data than can be easily connected with either client or one of its bills: last bills note to payee, client bank account, or even contract account it (for the banks that support that kind of identification).

Technical implementation in SAP is also quite easy. Ill explain it on one single client / line in the file.

First find out the contract account. You can do that by some of the sent data, as stated above. Most of the banks will give note to payee, from where you have several ways: if you used classification ID implementation, then you can easily read all data from the DFKKOP table, comparing the field OPORD with the given data. If you didnt do that implementation and still note to payee consists of either business partner or contract account, get that data. There isnt any universal solution, as it depends on the data you get and the configuration of your system. What matters is that the "Bank details" area on the business partner needs to be filled (transaction: BP).

Its wise to use a nomenclature for the bank data you will be writting into business partner (field BKVID of the BUT0BKtable). For example, start all direct debits with letter D and use two more letters for bank (DSB, DRF), or any other rule that fits your needs. That way the operater will easily visualy understand what this data is all about.

Next step is entering the Incomming payment method and Bank details for incomming payments, on Payments tab of Contract account master data (transaction: CAA1).

For ABAPers:

• Use  cl_gui_frontend_services=>gui_upload for file upload
• Use  BAPI_ISUACCOUNT_GETDETAIL to check current contract account details
• Use  BAPI_ISUACCOUNT_CHANGE to enter new incomming payment methods

Now that we have the business partner and contract account prepared, we can move on. We should process billing (or, which is very unlikely, enter invoices manualy) and run the payment run (transaction: FPY1) with the corresponding parameters (at least: enter Payment Methods, date ranges, contract account ranges (if any) and choose Open items). If everything goes well, you have a successful run with paid invoices, which we now need to process. We will create a file that bank needs to charge clients.

File 2: Customer to Bank: Invoices to charge

Theory is again quite easy: everything we need is already prepared in the payment run. Again, depending on the bank, and the file format they request, the important data is: client identification (either through bank account number, contract account, note to payee or the external ID that the bank gave us in first step), invoice identification (through document number, unique note to payee / classification key), invoice date and amount.

Technicaly its also quite nice: check DPAYH table, where most of the needed data are. You will not find classification ID there - in case you need it, make a link to the original document via clearing document (combine tables DPAYH and DFKKOP). Also, if the bank asks you for any additional info (like client bank account), in DPAYH you have the contract account from which you can work your way up to any other information you need (remember: you have dedicated nomenclature for bank ID, which helps you with this), even though this exact number is a part of the stated table.

For ABAPers:

• Use  WS_DOWNLOAD for downloading file to the client computer

File 3: Bank to Customer: Information about successfull and rejected payments

Here goes the tricky part. Theory is again simple (as it should always be): bank gives us the information about the successful or rejected payments. Not all banks give both information, but, the only thing we need are the rejected ones, and we get those from all banks. When we get the information from the bank that the bill wasnt successfuly payed (that it was rejected) we put it in a return lot, to reverse the clearing and reopen the original document.

Technicaly its a bit tricky. The bank wont always give you the document number, so we need to find it ourselves. If youre going through classification ID (field OPORD), then you have two documents, like in previous step: you will find the original (invoice) document by classification key, but for return lot you need to reference to the payment document (it means you need to find the payment document via payment document clearing).

Also, some banks will give you the amount (which is an additional check), while the others wont. That means you need to get that information aswell, in order to fill the list in the return lot.

Not all of the following BAPIs allow test run, which is important for checking the file and the data itself, before the actual run. This means you (or your development team) will have to make their own way of checking (either by checking all data separately, or simulating what the BAPIs do - this is up to you, and your business requirements; hint: banks usualy give very precise files).

For ABAPers:

• Use  FKK_REFUSAL_BATCH_CREATE to create the return lot (transaction FP09)
• Use  FKK_REFUSAL_BATCH_APPEND to fill in the rejected invoices
• Use  FKK_RLS_CLOSE to close the return lot
• Use  FKK_RLS_POST_LOT to post the payment lot

Conclusion

Due to large volume of different banks (and thus formats) I can not give you a cookbook for this. But, I hope I cleared the steps for the software architects and consultants and gave BAPIs for ABAPers to start your way in solving this issue, in case you run to it.

Hi All,

I am facing a situation where the ISU_ASSESS workflow WS20500105 is stopping at task "Find Billing Documents to Reverse" with the Error

"Contract ISU_BDOCS_FOR_REVERSAL: no billing documents exist in the period X_VERTRAG -".

All the related threads searched but could not find a solution.

Kindly suggest how can I go ahead.

Thanks.

Hi,

     Is there any way that we can find that Consumption Quantity is Actual or Estimated from Billing Schema.

Thanks.

Karthick.

Dear All,

We are having issue while importing SAP MFU UMCCRM01 AND UMCERP01 IN SAP system.

We are having embedded server architecture where netweaver gateway and SAP ECC on system.

UMCCRM01 component shows dependencies for IW_BEP and currently we are having latest release component SAP_GWFND.

Error:=Component IW_BEP is already retrofitted into component version SAP_GWFND rel.740

Thanks

Surekha

Hello,

We have configured VAT and the calculations are working fine.

However we are not able to achieve the exemptions.

The tax exemption details are updated at the Contract Account level.

Even if the CA is exempted, the taxes are still calculated.

I beleive that during invoicing, the tax should be exempted, if the CA is exempted.

Any missing config?

Thanks in advance.

We are processing single file having multiple payment lot in it by calling FPB3, now this transaction is creating one job each for payment lot.

We have 5000 entries in one payment lot and it is taking way too long to post the payments in the accounts as only one job per payment lot is running at a time, so is there any way we can create 5-6 number of jobs for each payment lot using FPB3?  By creating more jobs it will speed up the postings.

Hello Guys,

Is there any solution where in we can revoke Security Deposit which has already been reversed by mistake via FPSEC2. Also, Interest was also credited up to March 2016 on that deposit. How do we can revoke this deposit?

Thanks

Ronnie

Hello Colleagues,

When initially setting up BRF+ for IS-U Collections Management, there are some Technical and Basis steps to be performed.

For example the Switch Framework Transaction must be used to activate certain Business Functions related to FI-CA Collections Management.

Also, Event 315 must be activated to call the BRF+ Function.

Does anyone have a checklist of these tasks?

It would be convenient for future implementations.

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards,

Ivor