Enhancement Pack 8 – Decisions, DecisionsLeslie BarriosBluebonnet Electric Cooperative

ABOUT BLUEBONNET

Who

How

When

• Suburban/Rural Distribution Coop• 280 employees

• SAP y Milsoft y Aclara• eMeter y Clevest y OSI• ImageNow y Partner

• Modernization: 2003-2009• Reinventing: constantly**

What• 88,000+ meters • 11,000+ miles of line

OUR DILEMMA: THAT’S A LOT OF STUFF!!

Where to get info?1What applies to us? 2Who needs to review?3Who has the time? 4How can we fit this in with everything else?5Umm, you can’t reverse most of this stuff…6

OUR PROCESS (PRE‐2016)

Stress about scope; decide on a technical-only upgrade

OUR 2016 PROCESS 

Step One Ask For Help

Step Two Find a trusted 

partner

Step ThreeSchedule and 

Commit

Step FourConsider and 

Plan

A consolidation point

• Provide new, highly integrated core functionality encapsulated in business

• Accumulates functionality delivered in support packages and In-advance shipments

ENHANCEMENT PACKAGE OVERVIEW

ENHANCEMENT PACKAGE OVERVIEW

Less Disruptive

Continuous

“Easy”

“CONTRIBUTING FACTORS”

Maturing organization and technology focus1

Wooed by shiny objects 2

“Unpracticed” Discipline / Planning3

On the bleeding edge (for a while)4

CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS

Component: BBPCRMRelease: CRM 7, EhP2 SP: 11

CRM

Business functions not activated

EhP1: • ODR, remote disconnect, meter status check• Marketing Permission• Alerts Rule Modeler 3• Collection Work List: agent view work items for overdue accts & collection fact sheet

EhP2:• Enhanced ID screen • Service Order and Notification Integration• Guided Procedure (Task‐based UI)• Utilities Check Cockpit• High Volume Customer Segmentation 3• IR Categorization & IC Inbox Search, Performance‐enhanced BP search, IC Max hits

• Demand Side Mgmt

CRM: EHP 3 (STILL DECIDING)

EhP3:

• Premise Overview• Automatic Owner Move In• Utilities Free Text Search• Auto Completion of Address• Product Modelling for Utilities• Clarification Case (BPEM) and History Integration• Free Text Search (HANA only)

CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS

Component: IS-UTRelease: ECC6, EhP6 SP: 13

Business functions not activated

EhP ≤ 6: • Define consumption patterns• Transfer disconnection status of manually disconnected/reconnected AMI devices

• Send meter reading results for advanced meter• Reallocate PoD/Installation to New Premise• Enterprise services for EDM profiles• Enter/Display period consumption (intrvl mtrs)• Monitoring of uploading profile values• Simulate TOU billing for interval meters• New AMI fields for serial number selection• BPEM Integration for bill and payment advice• Define external VEE codes for advanced meters

CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS

More ECC Eh ≤ 6:

• Activation group for AMI capabilities• Device Modification in the Future• Additional authorization for installation facts• Change log for EDM settlements data• Demand Side Management –CRM integration with Billing FICA• Enhanced contract search • Consumption profiles• Create disconnect/connect• Enhanced BOL tree for POD with disconnection

Integration Enhancements• Register groups added to enterprise services• Device timestamp for installation, removal, or replacement• Ability to print or download meter‐reading orders for smart 

meters (support for manual read)AMI Monitoring• Transaction Monitoring of AMI Communication (EAMIMON01), 

you can display two new columns (Object Key Description and Additional Object Key Description)

Simulate Billing – External System• Perform simulation of TOU billing (even without billable order 

and for Budget Billing*)

EHP 7 ‐ AMI

Conditional Billing• Bill Critical Peak prices or clear Peak Time Rebates

Monitoring and Editing TOU Exceptions/Responses• Also use it to create, change, and delete TOU exceptions or their 

activation status

Archive TOU Exceptions/Responses• Optional reloading of archived and deleted data.• Optional reading of TOU exception responses from the archive 

and output in a list before the deletion program is run

EHP 7 – AMI (CONTINUED)

Basic Category Gateway (Device Mgmt)• Gateway/Modules acts as the controlling device to transfer data 

from the meter to the head end system. Defining them as a separate device category to maintain them as a separate asset for controlling device.

Enhanced Monitoring of Profiles (EDM)• Monitor the profile‐value import (transaction code EDM1N) 

– Additional selection options– User‐friendly status distinctions– Ability to save selection variants– Status traffic lights for overview of profile‐value import– New fields and enhancement options for customers in the application list 

viewer (ALV) to make it easier to monitor import documents

EHP 7 – DEVICE MGMT & EDM

EHP 7 – MORE STUFF

Localization & Customer Feedback:Workflow to Support Automatic Owner Move In

• Automatic move‐in of an owner into vacant installation:• Check for non replicated contracts and active switch docs• Contract creation using a CRM product• Product definition and determination 

Changes to Web UI:Asset Management • Ability to configure UI fields available for:– Notification header– Order header/Task list header– Technical object (equipment and functional location)

EHP 7 – MORE STUFF

FICA Enhancements• Partial execution of payment orders• Processing of billable items and consumption items• Aggregation of consumption items for rating• Some country‐specific stuff and other items

CA Receivable and Payables• Legal requirements for SEPA

EHP 8 – METER DATA MANAGEMENT

• Technical prereqs for enhancing IS-U device management from SAP by adding customized, specific attributes, such as corresponding database fields, to IS-U devices

• A simplified approach for the integration of master data between IS-U and an external MDM

• Optimization of formula calculations in SAP EDM

• New mass activity for high-volume execution of formula calculations in SAP Energy Data Management

EHP 8 – METER DATA MANAGEMENT (CONT)

• Quantity calculations based on meter-reading profiles in SAP Energy Data Management

• Master data template category for fast and simple creation and assignment of profiles and formula instances in SAP Energy Data Management

• Flexible profile version handling with the ability to copy profile values from an old profile version to the current version

ENHANCEMENT PACK DECISIONS

Next Steps• Review driving factors– Maximizing current investment– Deliver aligned business results– Don’t re‐invent– Un‐customize

• Review requirements, pre-reqs and Roadmaps– Resources x3– Hardware / Architecture– System Alignment

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