Further development of the customer invoicing 2012
Project duration: 1 year
Brief description
Due to statutory provisions the system will be further developed in the area of customer invoicing. The current focus points are the new regulations concerning green energy taxation in Austria (dated 01.07.2012) and allowing for the Article 19 reallocation charge in Germany. Moreover, the customer’s new services (e.g. energy consultation) must be represented in the customer invoicing system.
Supplement
The customer’s master data application is based on a three-layer, service-oriented architecture (.Net-based thin client, application server, MS SQL 2008). The business processes are integrated in the master data application. Communication with the SAP system takes place via IDOCS and an in-house XML schema. The data are exported from the system in the direction of BizTalk and then forwarded to the SAP system. The messages from the SAP system are transferred via BizTalk back to the master data application and imported there. The internal processing happens on the basis of definite automatisms and manual processing by the user. Development is performed in C# based on the .Net 3.5 framework.
Subject description
The customer invoice 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 invoices 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 invoicing. This is currently being optimized so that the documents can automatically be sent to the recipients maintained in the system.