A company may also have various company codes across the different locations. There will be exchange of services between these company codes. These goods and services which are shared or exchanged between these company codes are bring to terms during the month end process. The exchange difference has to be settled by a company code in the way of money transfer.

This process is known as Intercompany Settlement. 

A key functional area of SAP for Utilities that supports cross-company exchange of settlement data based on international standards such as EDI, XML, and Microsoft Excel.

Intercompany data exchange manages data transfer between retailers, distributors, and independent service operators with special regard to the requirements in deregulated markets.