1.7 Estimate Meter Read

Reference: Manage Meter Charges Process Model - Page 1 for the associated business process diagram.

Group:

•	Get Consumption

•	Generate Bill Segment

•	Batch Billing

Actor/Role: CC&B

Description: If eligibility requirements are met and the SP is not setup for Negative Consumption, the system estimates consumption and generates a corresponding system estimated read. This step is executed from online and batch processing.

Available Algorithms

•	CI_BSGC-SP - This algorithm is used to get consumption from the SPs linked to the SA. To determine consumption from meters, meter reads are retrieved from the Meter Configurations installed at the SA's SPs during the Bill period. The reads are stored in the Bill Segment's read details.

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C1-BSGC-MS - This algorithm simply copies the read and item details from the master SA's bill segment. This is done because ratable sub SA's are always billed together with their Master SA. This is done so that the exact consumption that is used to calculate the master SA's charges is also used to calculate the sub SA's charges.

•	C1-BSGC-USG (CC&B and MDM integration) - This algorithm is used for service agreements that require bill determinants from MDM.

•	MR EST TREND - This algorithm uses trends for estimating meter reads.

•	CI_3STP-EST - This algorithm uses a combination of methods; it looks historically one year ago, the immediate preceding Bill period or uses Trend if no historical reads can be found.

Process

•	BILLING - The Bill cycle Batch processing creates Bills for accounts with an "open" Bill cycle.

Entities to Configure

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Frequency

•	Bill Cycles

•	Bill Segment Type

•	Rates (Various Rate Schedule Algorithms and Major Configuration Information)

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SA Types

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Trends