Market Process Management For Utilities - An introduction

[PieterB]

WHAT IS IT ?

SAP Market Process Management For Utilities is an Add-On to SAP S/4HANA Utilities condensing the experience from 120+ international customer projects. It allows to efficiently model, execute and monitor business & market processes, including the required message handling for communication with other systems (market partners).  It includes additional features to accelerate your implementation project by providing reusable framework functionality as well as additional data objects and attributes.

This product helps you to:

• Consistenly model, run and monitor all your processes within the same framework
• Smoothly manage regulatory changes through process versioning in design and runtime
• Detect master data inconsistencies and to take actions for these ones
• Handle exceptions with low effort

Market Process Management for Utilities is powered by Application Process Engine and is the next iteration on an existing and proven framework (IDE/IDEX-GC). And it becomes even better because it is part of the SAP Utilities Core Offering.

WHAT ABOUT LOCALIZATION (make it country specific) ?

By using the international version of Market Process Management for Utilities it is possible to add country specific content. Based on our deep dive for the Belgian Market Supply Processes we have come to the following conclusion:

• 70% re-use of standard SAP functionalities
  • Message Mapping & Validation Framework
  • Process Flow Framework (versioning, steps, checks, ...)
  • Transfer Document functionalities (Odata, Mass Processing, ...)
  • Standard objects to create, update, ... the IS-U data model
  • International Market Reporting (CDS views, Fiori Apps, ...)

• 30% Country specific content 
  • Communication Protocols with the clearing house(s)
  • Message mappings / validations
  • Country specific process flows modelization
  • Set-up of the country specific data model within the IS-U data model
  • Country specific Market Reporting

Thanks to the set-up of the framework it is also possible to handle multiple countries within the same S/4HANA system.

THE S/4HANA FUNCTIONAL BLOCKS

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