Overview

Our Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI)  servicesAMI) services help organisations plan and execute AMI rollouts in a cost-effective manner. Through our AMI suite of solutions, we ensure the smooth running of meter-to-cash business processes through Smart Metering.

Smart Meters are AMR and AMI improved versions of conventional power meters and can be powered through electrical means or through gas. They range in function and require multiple Smart Meter Components to execute required processes in the most optimal manner. As an accredited SAP partner, we help provide effective smart meter solutions throughout South Africa and around the globe.

What are the benefits?

• Faster implementation
• Standard meter-to-cash processes based on best practice
• Reduced risk
• Accurate consumption data and automated system alignment
• A shorter meter reading cycle and a faster revenue collection cycle
• Improved error management

Who does it benefit?

Our Smart Metering solution helps clients address:

• Delays and hurdles associated with manual meter reading
• Difficulties accessing meter premises
• Long, periodic meter readings and billing cycles
• Experienced electricity theft, tampering, and meter failure
• Revenue under collection

Core Features

Billing Management

Management of the entire billing and invoicing process for energy products and utility services. SAP software provides flexible support for any scalable billing and invoicing scenario.

Billing Rules

Companies can implement and execute billing rules for any division, customer group and mix of energy and non-energy services. Billing rules can be changed as easily as regulations and tariffs change, ensuring compliance during invoice processing.

Payment Handling

The accounting, controlling, and reporting of high volumes of financial transactions through the SAP software.

Payment Channels

This software considers every possible payment channel and provides sophisticated and flexible clearing control, enabling you to assign individual clearing strategies, automate payment reconciliation and generate reports aligned with accounting principles.

Collection Management

This includes informed credit decisions and collections processing that is tailored to individual customer profiles.

SAP Software

SAP software delivers reliable, comprehensive credit scoring of new and existing customers based on historical customer data, integrated with external credit rating agencies. It fully automates routine tasks in the collections process for mass volumes of customers.
Billing personnel can change and continuously optimise collections strategies by using Champion/Challenger analysis, as well as in-house teams and external collections agencies.  

Prepayments

Through prepayments, companies can offer their customers a payment option that ensures the effective reception of payment, catering to “bad-payers”.