An energy trading company expands its own portfolio to include the administration and billing of alarm services. The primary aim is to provide billing services for the alarm systems of the parent company's companies, but also for customers outside the Group. To this end, the central application for mapping business processes will be expanded so that a monthly statement of account will be entered in the accounts on the basis of the deployment incurred. Both corresponding individual billing documents and collective documents are to be generated and sent as documents.
Supplement
The master data system is an internal .NET solution with MS SQL Server connection and a BizTalk communication interface to the SAP systems in which all accounting transactions take place. The data for the alarm services are imported from an existing external SQL database. The existing contract and billing structures, as they already exist for energy supply contracts, are used and adapted to the new requirements. The focus of the adjustments will be on automating the contract and billing processes.
Subject description
As part of the centralisation of the administration and support of alarm systems of the parent companies, it is necessary to invoice these services internally to the companies. Due to their experience in contract management and billing processes, customers are predestined to take on this task. It is based on the existing processes and thus achieves a relatively low-cost expansion of the portfolio. The new structures for invoicing alarm services can be used in the future to open up further service sectors for invoicing purposes.