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Migration approach --> Real and estimated readings

Former Member

‎2010 Jun 07 7:28 PM

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Dear all,

Regarding to the go-live date and the migration of meter readings, the approach that we are going to adopt is to migrate the last actual reading of the legacy system (it can be months or years prior to the go-live date) and its consecutive estimated reading until the go-live date. The reason why we are doing this is that we have to ensure that the standard functionality works with-out problem after the go-live date (e.g. DPC).

Due to the scenario described above, we have lots of doubts and we canu2019t find information in the OSS so we would appreciate if you can tell us how to proceed:

  • How we are going to migrate the meter readings with status 7 (billed) (field ABLSTAT)? This field is not active in the standard object we are using. It is supposed that every reading migrated is already billed.

  • How is DPC going to work if there isnu2019t any billing document to read in the first billing and invoicing executed in SAP?

  • Which are the best practices that we have to follow when migrating real and estimated meter reading?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Fernando.

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Former Member

‎2010 Jun 17 9:15 PM

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I won't speak to DPC, but for your other questions:

1. You do not need to migrate historical meter readings with status '7' (billed). Migrate them as-is with status '1' billable. Your move-in date for customers should be after the last billed read date in legacy (the contract would bill from that date up to the first SAP read post go-live).

2. The first SAP Invoice from a bill print perspective usually needs specific logic to handle the previous reading, previous payments, etc at migration. Going forward, the reading for a period is available in the print doc.

3. Real vs Estimate - use MR Type. You can configure migration-specific MR Types that are based off 01 Actual vs 03 Estimate.

Former Member

‎2010 Jun 23 10:02 PM

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We are going to apply a solution based on lecture orders and installation facts.

Former Member
In response to Former Member

‎2010 Sep 04 10:18 AM

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Hi

You could always migrate BILLDOC object in EMIGALL ... although its a project in its own.

In my experience with migrating BILLDOC and METERREAD with DPC enabled, once you migrate the bill against an actual meter read ... the system automatically sets the status to 7

can you tell me what approach you adapted instead?