SAP ABAP Data Element LMARGIN_SUB (Billing Interval of Secondary Installation Before MR Date)
Hierarchy
☛ IS-UT (Software Component) SAP Utilities/Telecommunication
   ⤷ IS-U-BI (Application Component) Contract Billing
     ⤷ EE20 (Package) IS-U: Billing
Basic Data
Data Element LMARGIN_SUB
Short Description Billing Interval of Secondary Installation Before MR Date  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type     Direct Type Entry
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type      
Data Type NUMC   Character string with only digits 
Length 2    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 2    
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Basic direction is set to LTR    
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Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 B.Int Bef. 
Medium 15 Bill.Int.Before 
Long 20 BillInt.Bef.MR Date 
Heading 2 IB 
Documentation

Definition

Specifies the number of days the billing period of the secondary installation can differ from the billing period of the primary installation.

Use

When installation groups are billed, the billing period of the primary installation and those of the secondary installations must be consistent. The data exchange between installations only produces useful results if the installation billing periods are consistent (within certain tolerances). You can use the Billing Interval of Secondary Installation Before the Meter Reading Date and After the Meter Reading Date to determine how much the billing periods are allowed to differ from each other.

Dependencies

Note:

  • A smaller interval means that the billing data from the primary and secondary installations can be compared more effectively.
  • However, a small interval also means that all installations in the installation group must be read within a correspondingly small interval.

Example

Example 1:

  • You select the following values for the intervals:

    Interval before the meter reading date = 2 days

    Interval after the meter reading date = 5 days

  • You then bill the primary installation. The end of the primary installation billing period is June 15.
  • As a result, the end of the billing period for the secondary installations must be between June 13 and June 20.

Example 2:

  • You select the following values for the intervals:

    Interval before the meter reading date = 0 days

    Interval after the meter reading date = 0 days

  • You then bill the primary installation. The end of the primary installations billing period is June 15.
  • As a result, June 15 is the only permissible date for the secondary installation billing periods.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20050224 
SAP Release Created in 472