EDITION:Vertrieb Strom

Angebotsmanagement Strom supports the creation of offers for special contract customers, from customers with a single delivery point to complex bundle offers. In just a few minutes, all necessary data is captured, the load profile forecast and priced, in order to produce a competitive offer. Any cost and revenue structures can be used, and grid and metering costs are assigned automatically. Templates and variants simplify offer processes even further and give even inexperienced users the ability to create complex offers with a high degree of process reliability. Integration into your IT landscape and interaction with a CRM system are supported through defined interfaces.

Scope of services:

• Offer Forecast
  • Creation of forecast load profiles using our basic forecast or the SOPTIM Plusprognose
• Bundle Contract Mapping
  • Mapping of multiple delivery points to a single offer
• Offer Calculation
  • Calculation of offers using products via freely definable calculation rules
  • All cost and revenue components of an offer are taken into account in the price calculation
  • Calculation enables the use of price formulas of various types, including market price indexing or base/peak pricing
  • Price components used can be constant, simply zoned, or tiered
  • Grid and metering charges as well as statutory levies are factored into the calculation
  • High-tariff/low-tariff rates or tariffs with any number of tariff zones can be mapped
• Offer Variants
  • Efficient creation of offers with multiple variants
  • A selection of different products, contract durations, or supply scenarios can be offered with minimal effort
• Tolerance Band Offers
  • Creation and calculation of products with tolerance band arrangements
  • Tolerance band parameters are automatically taken into account in the level of risk surcharges
• Tranche Models
  • Calculation of offers with tranche products

Vertragsmanagement Strom is the core of energy sales, mapping every end-customer contract individually or, if desired, aggregated into customer groups. The contracts form the basis for all downstream processes, such as sales portfolio management, forecast adjustments before and during supply, post-calculations during and after supply, sales controlling, or billing preparation. Comprehensive convenience and monitoring functions are also available, giving you security and speed when it comes to contract renewals and follow-up offers. Contract Management Electricity thus ensures that you always have direct access to all relevant information about your customers, can execute processes with the highest precision, and truly know each of your customers.

Scope of services:

• Contract Forecast
• • Creation of forecast load profiles based on historical data using the comparable-day method, linear regression, and optionally further mathematical methods using Plusprognose
• Bundle Contract Mapping
  • Mapping of multiple delivery points to a single contract
• Contract Calculation — Tolerance Bands
  • Management of contracts with tolerance band conditions
  • Tolerance band breaches are automatically taken into account in contract calculation
• Contract Management — Tranche Models
  • Enables the use of tranche models in contracts
  • a latest order time can be stored for individual tranches
  • the ordering of a tranche can be triggered automatically via a background process once this time has been exceeded
• Contract Calculation
  • Enables price calculation via freely definable calculation rules
  • all cost and revenue components can be taken into account as in offer calculation
  • in the contribution margin view of contracts, two contribution margin calculations can be conveniently compared
  • deviations between the two displayed calculations are shown separately
  • available options include the current contract calculation, the offer calculation (from which the contract originated), and further contribution margin calculations saved by the user

A USP of EDITION:Vertrieb Strom is tranche management — whether you want to create a complex offer with many market locations or automate the hedging of hundreds of tranches, the choice is yours.

In tranche management, any number of market locations can be included in tranches. Using various decomposition algorithms, the basis for a price formula is established and can be supplemented as desired with components from sales contract management. When it comes to management, tranche management is as flexible as your customers.

10 annual tranches? 4 quarterly tranches? 12 monthly tranches? No problem! And all of these options are fully integrated into the THEMENGEBIET:Vertragsmanagement Strom

What our tranche models can do:

• Price Formula
  • Volume-neutral, value-neutral decomposition of load profiles for determining the price formula, taking into account costs, margins, and risks from contract management
• Tranche Templates
  • Definition of the number of tranches, reference variables, and latest order time
• Sales Tranches
  • Sales tranches are hedged for the customer, handed over to procurement, and form the basis for billing
• Procurement Tranches
  • Volume changes are passed on to procurement at an early stage
• Automation
  • Automatic valuation and ordering of tranches based on individual criteria
• Settlement Tranches
  • Settlement tranches are tranches for which volumes are already transferred to procurement without the final price being known
  • Pricing takes place as soon as the settlement quotation (after close of trading) is established
  • This allows procurement to buy/sell the most current volumes more strategically and flexibly on the same trading day
• Index Tranches
  • Mapping of the smallest tranches according to free configuration, e.g. daily, weekly, first Thursday of the month, etc.

A further USP is the fully integrated support for managing your generation assets, enabling you to use Angebotsmanagement Strom based on those assets — either for pure feed-in operators or in bundle offers and contracts combined with consumers. Of course, you can also combine tranches or spot contracts with generation assets, from offer creation through to billing preparation.

Via automated processes, both actual feed-in volumes and forecast volumes can be aggregated to the appropriate level and handed over to procurement or trading.

What our feed-in models can do:

• Asset and Contract Recording
  • Management of generation units and associated generation plants
  • Maintenance and unambiguous assignment of tranches to generation plants
  • Maintenance of contracts with the corresponding direct marketing periods
  • Assignment of generation plants and tranches to the relevant contracts
• Offer Calculation
  • Calculation of offer prices as fixed prices, tranche formulas, or spot surcharges, taking into account individual cost, margin, and risk structures
• Contract Calculation — Post-Calculation
  • Calculation of the profitability of contracts after supply, taking into account orders, spot hedges, and balancing energy prices
• Calculation of billing prices for tranche contracts and spot contracts
  • Flexible Aggregation
  • Aggregation of forecast volumes and actual volumes from feed-in market locations according to various criteria: balancing area, balancing group, control zone, sales product
• Forecast Functionality for Generation Assets
  • Creation of optimal forecast results for generation assets, taking into account many influencing factors such as temperature, global radiation, wind speed, precipitation, etc.

Vertriebsportfoliomanagement – as the link between sales and procurement — consolidates the sales volumes and transfers them to procurement. At the point of transfer, the volumes (load profiles) are valued at a defined transfer price. The internal settlement between the sales and procurement organisational units is thus automated and stored transparently within a single system. The structure of the sales portfolio into any number of sub-portfolios — such as sales volumes for special contract customers, commercial customers, and residential customers — is configurable and can be adapted to the individual needs of the respective organisation. In addition to managing forecast volumes, sales orders are administered in a form of bookkeeping. Depending on the configuration, contract-specific orders can be triggered, for example upon contract conclusion, forecast adjustment, or tranche order. In addition, collective orders for open volumes in the sales portfolio can be generated on a time-controlled basis. A direct connection between EDITION:Vertrieb Strom and EDITION:Beschaffung Strom is possible, ensuring a transparent, fast, and secure exchange of volumes and prices.

Scope of services

• Sales Portfolio Overview
  • Display and maintenance of any number of sales portfolios within the sales system
  • Inclusion of forecasts and order quantities from aggregation
  • Display of the hedging ratio and procurement costs in the internal settlement with procurement
• Historised View
  • Historised view of forecasts, order quantities, and internal transfer prices
• Individual Orders
  • Recording of individual orders into a sales portfolio from contract conclusions, tranche purchases, and forecast adjustments
  • Valuation of individual orders according to the internal transfer price
• Rolling Sales Portfolios
  • Strategic and forward-looking management of your SLP portfolios
• Product Components
  • Mapping of different electricity qualities is straightforward to implement using product components
  • Volumes and prices are clearly summarised in separate sales portfolios

Messdatenverarbeitung Lieferant Strom within EDITION:Vertrieb Strom provides the foundation for mapping all energy industry processes. The module is distinguished by high-performance and audit-proof storage of all time series and energy data. Functions for import and export, transformation, visualisation, plausibility checking, and substitute value creation are all included as standard. In addition, Meter Data Processing Supplier Electricity enables the linking of time series and energy data with internal master data (market location, customer, balancing group, storage, and sub-portfolio, etc.) as well as external market partners (supplier, distribution network, balancing area, metering point operator, [virtual] handover point, and others). Overall, Messdatenverarbeitung Lieferant Strom forms the solid, high-performance foundation for each of your energy industry processes.

Scope of services:

• Data Processing
  • Import, export, transformation, visualisation, and aggregation of time series and master data for downstream processes such as MaBiS, sales portfolio management, etc.
• Recurring Workflows
  • Automation and time-controlled execution of recurring workflows
• System Monitor
  • Display of the status (In Progress, Successful, Unsuccessful) of regularly running jobs and events
  • The status of all events can be viewed at a glance through mapping via hierarchical groups
  • In the event of an error, the problem can be quickly analysed using the zoom function
• Load Profile Processing
  • In addition to profiles from BDEW and TU Munich, user-defined day-type and temperature-dependent profiles are also supported
• Weather Data Processing
  • Processing of weather data (e.g. for temperature-dependent profiles)

The functions of THEMENGEBIET: Dokumentenmanagement Vertrieb enable the flexible and individualised creation of offer and contract documents. By using configurable templates, the offer creation process is significantly accelerated.

Dokumentenmanagement Vertrieb offers the ability to automatically generate Word or PDF documents for various business objects. These templates can be equipped with dynamic field functions that are populated with specific and current data directly from the respective business object at the time the document is created. This ensures fast, precise, and efficient document creation.

THEMENGEBIET:Fachliche Marktkommunikation EDIFACT supports the processing of incoming and the creation of outgoing EDIFACT messages. Once deposited by an integrated AS4 service, messages are automatically read in, validated, and made available for further use in the relevant business processes.

Outgoing messages are generated automatically and deposited for an integrated AS4 service.