ISU-CCS

Question

A local utility company wishes to engage us for their preliminary sizing for ISU-CCS.  My understanding is that this requires the sizing of the ERP (user based) as well as IS Utilities given in the same panel below.  This is our first time with utiltities and would appreciate any inputs you can give us on the throughput based section listed under Utilties of the quick sizer.

Answer 1

Thanks KP for sending him the Ramp up document link.
Lets categorize the solution into some of the verticals for which you are responsible:
1. Hardware
2. Landscape
3. Volume of the data
4. Size of the company (Customer + employees)
5. Is there some legacy system being used ??(If yes then at least the knowledge of following Business Process:
>> Meter installation
>> Meter reading
>> BIll creation
>> Request processin
Well now coming to the answers of these question based out of the vertical:
1. Hardware : it's directly related to answer of the question 4 and 3
e.g : if company is serving let say 1M customer with more then 5K employees then Not only Front office process + Interaction center but also customer portal to integrate all the requirements is necassary (It also depend upon the way it's being done currently and in what ways company like to go about it !!)
2.Landscape
As said initially in this thread IS-U sits on the top of the R/3, as many of the master data is replicated under the standard R/3 componenet e.g:
Connection Object & Device location = Functional location (PP)
Device category = material (MM)
FI-CA(AR/AP)
So the knowledge of the exact landscap is required:
So let see the type of combination which might be possible:
>> CRM (For industries)<----ERP 2005 (IS-U switch on)
(In this landscape the front end system would be crm and erp would enable all the company specific processes to map on the ERP)
I would suggest this landscape when the company is very well off and large in number of customers.
>> IS-U 4.72 on top of R/3
As per my understanding this is the next level of configuration
(Whn company is already running on R/3, but not so flexi to integrate with other legacy components)
3. Volume of DATA:
>>In sync with the size of the company
>>Would some legacy system based processes be used ??
>> Lot of replication of data is required.
Shaishav : I think when you are aware about the ECC 6.0 then better would be if you go throught the link send by the KP and give some time to yourself to get familier with the Business process of this industry.
"IF i've been given 6 hrs to cut down a tree, i'll spend 4 hrs to sharp my Axe - Newton"
Try to get the case study of the implementation of some of the implementation in the Electricity industry and that too where the market is regulated.
I mostly have worked for Europe based industry so i'm not a good person to be contacted for this
Hope information would be benificial.
Some links :
(ECC 6.0)
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/c6/4dce68eafc11d18a030000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
(IS-U 4.72)
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_utilities472/helpdata/en/c6/4dce68eafc11d18a030000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
Some case studies:
http://www.axonglobal.com/pages/sectors/Utilities/documents/TransformingUtilitiesAxonsGlobalCapability.pdf
http://www.sap.com/industries/utilities/pdf/Misc_BKW_ROI.pdf
Regards,
Amit