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Lease User Guide - Process - ENGLISH 2017
Lease User Guide - Process - ENGLISH 2017
Lease User Guide - Process - ENGLISH 2017
We need to define all the parameters that are the basic data for the lease administration.
These functionalities are usually assigned to a process owner.
We use this group of functionalities when a new lease is signed and when we need to change some lease parameters .
These functionalities are used to connect the lease with other entities in order to define the calculation rules for cost/income and for billing procedures
Payment process
Update Calculate Adjust Calculate
Update Define
Index Automatic Cost by Costs by
Measures Invoice
Value Measures Index rules
We use this group of functionalities each month to define the invoices amount. The order of these operations is fundamental because each
step is based on the outputs of the predecessor and gives input for the successor
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Lease Payment Process
User Manual Index
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Background Data: subjects & rules definition 4 Payment Process
Locations Calculate Costs by Rules 21
Cost Rules Define Invoice
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Measure types
Cost modification- Modify button 23
Subjects
Approve Invoice
Responsabilities
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Printing Parameters (North America)
Invoice billing and due date 25
Lease definition: edit / update lease 6
Print Invoice
Basic Information 7 26
Subjects and billing address 8 Define GL Account 27
Measures 9 Associate GL Account 28
Recurring Costs 10
Cost Index Adjustment 11
Cost calculation Rules
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Payment process
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Update index value
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Update measures 17
Calculate automatic measures 19
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Adj Costs by Index 20
Lease Payment Process
Background data
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Background Data- Printing Parameters
Editing Printing Parameters (Affected Countries: North America )
This new functionality has been provided in order to give the American
users the possibility to change the «Sent From» and «Payment Info»
fixed fields in the invoice templates.
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Lease Payment Process
Lease Definition: Edit Lease
The first two functionalities for create a new lease are: These functionalities allow us to connect some measures (fixed or
- Information: basic information (lease type, date start, date end, status, variables attributes) and some document (pdf, doc, execl, ppt, zip,
etc...) etc…) with our lease.
- Subjects: the list of subjects connected with the lease, their role in the The measures are all the attributes that we want to store for our
agreement and their addresses lease, all the information that show us the value of the lease in our
real estate portfolio.
The Base Rent functionality is the most important This functionality allow us to This functionality allow us to define the rules for
because allow us to define all the recurring costs define how a recurring cost the recurring cost calculations.
and their split for each payee. A recurring cost is a can change based on the cost Here we can define how the value of the "amount
regularly occurring cost which describes the income adjustment index: CPI, GDP, base rent" changes based on the value of the lease
or expense and its pattern (how often it occurs, the etc… measures. We can express the price list (unit
time period during which the cost applies, and so We need to associate the rule costs) expressed in the agreement and when the
forth). You can generate individual Scheduled Cost to each recurring cost that is unit costs are applicable (date start, date end,
records from your Recurring Cost records. We can subjected to the adjustment. lease status, and so forth).
manage more than one recurring cost for each lease
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Lease Definition
Basic Information
Date Move In Define the date when you move in the lease (fisical)
Lease Signed? Allow to manage and distinguish between signed lease and option
of lease
Account Code Allow to connect the lease cost with the balance
Property Code Connect the lease with his plant location and his property
Button Comments
Select the “Save” button to save the information you have updated
Actions
After this tab (after you have selected one specific lease) you can move between the tabs by selection of your interest tab
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Subjects and Billing Address
How to pay Express the payment method choose for the partner (defined in the
agreement)
Role Define the role of the partner in the lease (vendor, client, contact,
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Partner id The partner field is not a text but you need to select it from the validation table
Button Comments
Actions
Select the “Add new” button to add a new record (connect a new subject to the lease)
Select the button to update some informations of the record
Select the button to view the detail informations of the record in the framework below
Select the button to delete the record (it doesn’t cancel the partner but its connection with the lease)
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Measures
Date start / Date end Allow to define the attributable period of the measure value
Reading type If you select Manual, you have to manage the value by yourself. If you select
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Automatic, Archibus will update it for you but you have to be sure that the
informations that Archibus needs for calculate the value are updated by someone.
Last reading The date of last reading for the data value.
Button Comments
Actions
Select the “Add new” button to add a new record (connect a new measure to the lease)
Select the button to update some informations of the record
Select the button to view the detail informations of the record in the framework below
Select the button to delete the record (it doesn’t cancel the measure type or the historical values but its connection with
the lease)
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Lease Definition
Recurring Costs
Amount – Expense This is the amount of cost (expense or income) that we can define recurring.
(Income) This is the total amount that will be schedule for each period.
Seasonal Start / End These informations describe the period of the year in which the cost occurs. If
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Date you chose nov / feb and you have a monthly cost, we will have the cost only
for: Nov–Dec–Jan-Feb
Yearly Factor It’s useful for the forecast calculations and describes the fixed yearly factor for
the cost adjustment.
Cost Category You need to chose the category of your recurring cost. If you don’t find the
category you want ,you need to ask to your process owner to create a new
one.
Period It describes how often the cost occurs. If you don’t find your period you can
define it like “CUSTOM “ period.
Custom Period (Days) If you select “CUSTOM” in the field Period, here you can define how many
days it is.
Active You can active or disactive a recurring cost. If it’s Active=NO Archibus won’t
create its schedule costs.
Button Comments Terms of issue You can define if the cost occurs at the start (advance) or at the end (arrear)
Actions
of the period
Select the button to update some informations of the record
Partner id You need to define who is the partner for this cost. If you have more than one
Select the button to delete the record . It doesn’t delete the scheduled and actual cost payees, you can leave it blank and select the “Multi Partner”.
behind
Select the button when you have more than one payee and you want to define the % of
interest.
Select the button when you have more than one company that pay a lease and you want
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Lease Definition
Cost Index Adjustment
Field Comments
Description You can the select what’s the rule for the adjustment of your recurring cost.
Each recurring cost can have its own rule.
% Transmission This is the factor that describes if you want to adjust your cost only for a
percentage of the Index (CPI, GDP, ecc)
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Adjustment Period This is the number of months for the second index (Date Index Start + Adj
period)
Months Notice This is important only if you have defined a communication format (for payee)
Adjustment for the cost adjustment. You can insert the default value 1
Date Next Adjustment It describes the date when Archibus needs to adjust the cost .
Date Last Adjustment It describes the date when Archibus has adjusted the cost .
Button Comments
Actions
Select the button to see or update the adjustment informations for each recurring cost
Select the button if you want to see all the adjustment stored for the recurring cost
If the recurring cost is connected with a cost rule , Archibus will adjust the price list (unit costs), not the amount of
recurring cost.
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Lease Definition
Cost Calculation Rules
Field Comments
Adjustment Period This is the number of months from the present calculation and the
next.
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Date Next It describes the date when Archibus needs to calculate the cost
Adjustment value.
Date Last It describes the date when Archibus has calculated the cost last
Adjustment time.
Each time you are managing a recurring cost that doesn’t have a fixed amount
but it depends on other factors, you need to define the calculation rules and the
formula behind. The formula is expressed like : Quantity (measure) * Unit Cost
(price list) + Fixed cost (price list)
Button Comments
Actions
Select the button to see or update the calculation informations for each recurring cost
Select the button to define the price list rows that Archibus has to use for calculate the amount of the recurring cost.
Select the button to define the relations between the prices list. You need to use it if the calculation is based on a specific
condition (use the greater value and so forth)
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Lease Definition
Cost Calculation Rules
Lease Code It’s only for check if the lease cost is right
ID Measure Type You need to connect each row of the price list to one measure type of your
lease. It’s useful to define where Archibus can find the Quantity value
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Date Start / End These informations describes the period in which the price list can be use by
Archibus.
Fix cost It’s the fixed value in the formula: Amount = Fixed Cost + Unit Cost * Quantity
It is an annual cost
Unit cost It’s the variable cost in the formula: Amount = Fixed Cost + Unit Cost * Quantity.
It is an annual cost
Upper / Lower bound These informations describes the range of measure values in which the price
list can be use by Archibus. If the measure value is out of this range Archibus
can’t use this price row
Is Active? You can active or disactive a recurring cost. If it’s Active=NO Archibus won’t use
this row.
Button Comments
Status You can define that Archibus can use this row only if the lease status is ….
Actions
Select the “Save” button to save the information you have (insert the value)
updated Order This information is the most important when you define a relation between two
or more price rows. It describes the sort order of calculations.
Select the “Close” button to close the edit windows and go back
to the price list
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Lease Definition
Cost Calculation Rules
Subjects and Cost
Basic Recurring Cost Index
Billing Measures Calculation
Information Costs Adjustment
Address Rules
Task: Edit Lease // Cost Rules // Price List // Manage Relations Fundamental informations
Field Comments
Relation ID It’s the primary key for the relations. Archibus defines it automatically
Relation Type You can connect two or more price rows. if you select the follow values,
Archibus will calculate the amount with all the price list and than chose
-Upper : the greater one
-Lower : the lowest one
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-Percentage: sum (if you create + %) or decrease (if you create a - %) the
amount value of a percentage.
In this case the formula will be:
Amont= (Fixed Cost + Unit Cost * Quantity) * (1 + or - %)
Percentage value It is the % value for the formula. If you want decrease the value you must to use
a negative % (es. – 6%).
Button Comments
Actions
Select the button to view the detail informations of the relation (the list of prices subjected to it)
Select the button “Add new relation voice” to add a new price to the relation (add at the list of prices subjected to it)
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Payment Process
The order of the operations is fundamental because each step is based on the outputs of the predecessor and it gives inputs for
the successor
Task: Payment process: update data // Update Index Value Fundamental informations
First of all you need to be sure that all the values that Archibus uses
STEP 1: UPDATE INDEX VALUE for calculations are in the database. If some of these aren’t updated
the amount value of the recurring cost could be updated to zero.
Field Comments
With this functionality you can Each Index can have only one value for each
2 - Choose the add or update the index couple year-month.
year and the values for all the Index and
month of your for all the months you need.
interest
Button Comments
Actions
Select the button if you want to refresh / reload the data for the web view
Select the “Save” button to save the information you have updated
If you move the mouse cursore to the left corner of the table, Archibus will show you the mini-console that is useful to define some quickly filter to the data showed
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Payment Process
Update Measures
Lease code This is the lease code to which the measure is connected. If it is
connected to more than one lease (property) you have to leave this field
blank
Site Code This is the site code to which the measure is connected. Each measure
has to be connect to a site (plant)
Equipment code This is the equipment code to wich the measure is connected. Each
With this functionality you can measure has to be connect to an equipment code.
Tranfer out / Transfer In or
Date Start / End This is the period to which the measure value refers
Compare the data in excel o
csv format, for the equipment Value This is the value read
measures
Measure Type This is the type of measure read
Button Comments
Actions
Select the button if you want to export the data in word format
Select the button if you want to export the data in excel format
Select the button if you want to execute the transfer or compare operations
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Payment Process
Update Measures
Lease code This is the lease code to wich the measure is connected. If it is
connected to more than one lease (property) you have to leave this field
blank
Button Comments
Actions
Select the button if you want to export the data in word format
Select the button if you want to export the data in excel format
Select the button if you want to execute the transfer or compare operations
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Calculate Automatic Measures
Task: Payment process: update data // Calculate automatic measures Fundamental information
You can calculate the current value for all the lease measures
defined “Automatic”. For this operation can need a lot of time
STEP 3: AUTOMATIC MEASURES
(it depends on the number of records updating). If you want to
reduce the time, you can select only the records with “Date
Next Adjustment” in the current month.
Archibus follows the “Order By” field for define the sort order of
the operations. It calculates the data for all the lease selected.
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Button Comments
You can choose if you want to make the calculations only for a subset, in this case you need to select them by checking the
OR
Actions
If you want to change your selection, press this Button for cleare selections
Select this button to start the calculations for all the selected records. Archibus will calculate the data based on the the field
“Order by”. With this operation Archibus will update the informations: Value, Wheight, Value with weight, Last reading
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Adjust Cost by Index
Task: Payment process: update data // Adjust Cost by Index Fundamental information
You can see a lease in this functionality only if it has at least
one recurring cost with
STEP 4: INDEX ADJUSTMENT
Date Next Adjustment = current month
in the adjustment parameter.
You can set this data with the functionality in the path
Module: Real Estate Portfolio Management
Process : Lease Administration
Activity: Process
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When you select a lease in the left window, Archibus shows you
the list of its recurring cost subjected to the adjustment. You
can execute the adjustment for each recurring cost, for all the
recurring cost of the lease or for all the lease in the left window.
We can divide the operations in 2 cases:
1) Recurring cost with fixed amount: in this case Archibus
will update the amount income/expense of the recurring
cost
2) Recurring cost with automatic cost calculation : in
this case Archibus will update the Unit Cost of the price list
Button Comments
connected with the recurring cost
When you press the button, archibus calculates the new amount and the formula is always:
Actions
Task: Payment process: update data // Adjust Cost by Measure Rule Fundamental information
You can see a lease in this functionality only if it has at least
one recurring cost with
STEP 5: COST CALCULATION
Date Next Adjustment = current month
in the Cost Rules parameter.
You can set this data with the functionality in the path
Module: Real Estate Portfolio Management
Process : Lease Administration
Activity: Process
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When you select a lease in the left window, Archibus shows you
the list of its recurring cost subjected to the cost rule. You can
execute the calculations for each recurring cost, for all the
recurring cost of the lease or for all the lease in the left window.
The formula is always:
New Recurring Cost Amount = sum of all the price list
active and usable (for date, status, range, relations and so
forth) moltiplied for the quantity (value with weight) of the
measure connected.
For each price list we have:
Button Comments
Amount = Fixed Cost + Unit Cost * Quantity
When you press the button archibus calculates the new amount and
After we sum all the value usable and define the recurring cost
Actions
stores all the lease measures used. For each measure Archibus makes a
print of: amount.
When you select a cost in the left window (Schedule tab), you
need to click on the Schedule button in order to insert the end
date of which you want to schedule and Archibus will generate
scheduled costs needed to be approved in the Approve Tab
according to the period of the cost.
Once the cost is approved it will disappear from the Approve
tab and it will be shown in the Invoice tab where the scheduled
cost will be translate into a invoice by clicking on Create
Invoice.
Button Comments
(Schedule TAB) When you press the button you are able to schedule costs for the period indicated
Actions
(Approve TAB) When you press this button you approve the scheduled cost and Archibus will generate a cost transaction
(Invoice TAB) When you press this button you create the invoice
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Payment Process – Define Invoices
Cost Modification – Modify Button
For each cost, it is possible to change it’s amount before issuing the invoice by pressing on
the modify button. All cost changes will be logged detailing the user, date, time, old amount
and new amount inputted. The log is only available for administrator users.
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Approve Invoice
When you search for an invoice you will see it in the grid and
you can choose either if you need to delete it either if you need
to approve it.
Approving it, means that the invoice, where the SAP integration
is active, is ready to be sent in SAP.
By clickin’ on the “X” button you are able to delete the invoice
and re-issue in the Invoice tab of the Define Invoice
functionality.
Button Comments
When you press this button you approve the invoice and it is ready to be sent to SAP, where the integration is active
Actions
When you press this button you are able to delete the selected invoices
When you press this button you are able, where Invoice templates are present, to see a first look of the invoice
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Payment process
Approve invoice - Invoice billing and due date
It is now possible to set from ARCHIBUS a billing date of an invoice before the current date.
Moreover, it is now possible to set manually the due date of an invoice. ARCHIBUS sets by default
the end of month of the billing date. In case necessary, the user can now overwrite it manually
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Print Invoice
By clickin’ on the “X” button you are able to delete the invoice.
Following are the logics in order to delete the invoice:
- If the integration status is ACTIVE you are able to delete from
Archibus but you need to delete from SAP also;
- If the integration status is IN TRANSFER you cannot delete
from Archibus;
- If the integration status is N/A or CREATED you are able to
delete from Archibus since the transfer is not yet started or the
invoice is Closed and the integration status is not Active.
Button Comments
When you press this button you are able to see the discardings on the invoice, where the SAP integration is active
Actions
When you press this button you are able to delete the selected invoices
When you press this button you are able, where Invoice templates are present, to see the invoice
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Lease Administration – Background Data
Define GL Account
This functionality allows the user to create new GL Accounts or modify already existing one.
These GL accounts are used in the invoice integration flow between ARCHIBUS and SAP.
Moreover, the user can insert now the description of the GL account (debit and credit).
The GL accounts created on ARCHIBUS need to be created also on SAP system in order to
accept the relative payments.
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Lease Administration – Process
Associate GL Account
Inside the recurring cost details window, it is possible to change the GL account to
which the recurring cost is associated. ARCHIBUS fills on the creation of a new cost a
default value already in use for all recurring costs.
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