Due to statutory provisions the system will be continuously developed further in the area of customer settlement. Current areas of focus are the adaptation of calculation for RLM GAS, representation of §17-allocation in Germany, as well as settlement for measuring services independently of energy delivery, as well as further customer services.
Supplement
The customer's master data application is based on a three-layer, service-oriented architecture (.Net-based thin client, application server, MS SQL 2012). The system communicates both with other individually implemented systems of the customer and with standard software such as SAP. The data exchange takes place with the help of various formats, primarily with the help of in-house XML formats, which are sent to a BizTalk server, which forwards the data in accordance with the relevant requirements. Development is performed in C# based on the .Net 4.5 framework.
Subject description
Customer settlement is an essential component of the customer's business process, because, with the aid of monthly discount invoicing, payments for the energy delivery and other services are secured here. The end of year settlement is created at the end of the business year. Apart from the key topics which are determined by the statutory provisions, the process of creating customer settlement is continually improved and optimized. Due to the new regulations concerning the sending of invoice documents by e-mail, the possibility of sending documents from the system by e-mail is now also available in the area of customer settlement. This is currently being optimized so that the documents can automatically be sent to the recipients maintained in the system.