Tasks to be completed when documenting an operation (from creation to publication)
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1. Objective and Scope
1.1. Objective of this Operation
The objective of this document is to explain the main concepts behind the Residual Sodium Chemicals (RSC) invoicing.
We need to invoice the PSR treatment and transport in the 1st day of the month. This process has to be completed until 12H Italian time because the majority of the customers are public institutions owned by the state, very burocratic and they need to receive the invoice for verification and payment early in the month.
Known in italian as "PSR - Prodotti Sodici Residui" this procedure exists to ensure a good understanding of the different contracts and how to calculate the amounts to be invoiced every month end.
1.2. Scope
This procedure applies to Italian company 0270 Solvay Chimica Italia.
2. Definitions
See Finance Glossary:
PSR - Prodotti Sodici Residui in italian.
RSC - Residual Sodium Chemicals in English.
3. Tasks description
3.1. Responsibilities
- Local team > Luca Pelagatti / Marco Sardi / Luca del Rio responsible for the sharing of the contracts negociated and the activity of the month to be invoiced.
- Accounting Platform > Will perform the analysis, update and calculation of the monthly invoicing.
- SU FAC Interco > Will perform the invoicing whenever necessary ensuring all master data creation, share it with the customer and submit the electronic invoice.
3.2. PSR Invoicing description
"Solval® operates the first recycling plant for RSCs from waste-to-energy facilities. The facility is in Rosignano and near Solvay’s legacy soda ash plant in Italy, which uses the purified brine produced by Solval as raw material to produce soda ash."
For more information about this market access the following link: https://www.solvairsolutions.com/en/who-we-are/services/recycling-services
This plant is part of SOLVAY CHIMICA and is responsible to treat and transport the waste on site for which we charge a fee to the costumers for the service and has two production lines:
One more general where the residues are treated for customers:

2. Another line dedicated to a specific customer that has two plants but only one is active:

We receive the deliveries of waste followed with a certificate, with all the information mandatory to the transport like delivery date and time, code, quantity and final destination and if there is an intermediate. Sometimes we are also intermediates. For each customer there is an agreement, these agreements are revised and re-negotiated not only when they expire but from time to time changes occur during the year that will be duly communicated. The contracts have different conditions and we need to pay attention to the different details (like is transport price, should we apply a discount, penalties, text to apply in the invoices...). You will find the resume in the following table: \\ITRRS04\Groups\Solval\IMPIANTO\PSR DA FATTURARE X MESE\tabelle prezzi\ CONTRATTI_PSR_2012-20 Another important remark is about the transport, we have two types of transport, one where we just pick up the residues to the costumers and another combined when we use the same truck to deliver the final product and pick up the residues. The result is two different prices. You will find the resume in the file “Ripartizione costi Trasporto PSR” (look for the sheet with the most updated figures 2021) \\ITRRS04\Groups\Solval\IMPIANTO\PSR DA FATTURARE X MESE\tabelle prezzi\ Ripartizione costi Trasporto PSR How do you know the prices to apply in the monthly invoicing? You will receive from the plant this information, a resume file with activity of the month. In this case each "Formulario" represents one trip with reference to the treatment “1ª fascia” or “2ª fascia” and transport “Combinato” or Espresso”. To determine the Transport amount we need to multiply the number of trips, each "Formulario" by the price agreed with the costumer and present also in the virtual folder. There is one last step… As the plant has two main business, the residues business and the sale of sodium bicarbonate we split the price in two parts, one part is charged to the sodium bicarbonate business another part to SOLVAL business (you can take the example below: column K and L and with the sum of both we will obtain column H). This split is useful to reverse the benefit of this combined transport to the Solval Business every end of the month (reference TPT CARS).
File location: \\ITRRS04\Groups\Solval\IMPIANTO\PSR DA FATTURARE X MESE\tabelle prezzi| Ripartizione costi Trasporto PSR - sheet Tabella Prezzi Gen2018 For this we need to calculate the contribution, for example, customer IREN – TRM Torino we have applied a price of 985,15 EUR for combined transport; for the sodium bicarbonate business we are charging 559,45 EUR (column K) and Solval is paying 425,67 EUR (column L). At the end of the month for each transport, the sodium bicarbonate business will give to Solval the difference between the normal transport of only “BICAR espresso” (column I) and BICAR combined price “BICAR Combinato” (column K). This difference is showed in the resume file sheet TRANSPORT where we already did the highlight of amount calculated - 183,15 for each delivery.
Whenever there is an update, a new sheet is add with the most recent calculations like below:
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3.3. I prepare the information
To ensure you are fully autonomous and that you have access to all the information please see the documentation available in shared drive \\ITRRS04\Groups\Solval\IMPIANTO:
We have compiled all the information in one single file that serves as the base for the invoices preparation.
It is compose by:
INSTRUCTIONS to support the checks and the invoices to be issued;
DATABASE composed by general information with the location of the files and the customer data (to be updated whenever we have changes);
RESUME of the invoicing of the month (automated to have an overview of the invoicing of the month);
ZZF_POSTING_FILE with the posting template and specifications to post the invoices;
TRANSPORT: Exact copy of the file with the prices to apply available in \\ITRRS04\Groups\Solval\IMPIANTO\PSR DA FATTURARE X MESE\tabelle prezzi\ Ripartizione costi Trasporto PSR
PSR Contabilità: The information to be filled here is coming from Marco Sardi’s file sent on D1 early in the morning where we have the information about the form number (formulario); the quantities to be applied divided by 1000 and the type of treatment (1° fascia/ 2° fascia).
PIGLIACELLI: Information received from Luca del Rio file sent on D1, use file named PIGLIACELLI with the number and type of transports that occurred in the month (to double check spelling in column E);
INTERMEDIAZIONE: Exact copy of the file available in \\ITRRS04\Groups\Solval\IMPIANTO\Intermediazione PSR;
One calculation sheet for each customer taking in consideration the different specifications to apply:
AMBIENTHESIS
A2A
CHIMET
HERA
ACSM AGAM
IREN
MARANGONI
Before month end we must ensure that all relevant information has the most updated figures meaning that, we must ensure pricing to apply to each customer is according to the agreement in place as well as the transport price and the texts to apply in the invoice. Main point of contact is Luca Pelagatti.
3.4. I fill the central file (latest version 01.2021)
At D1 the source of information is:
- Marco Sardi send the “Nuovo File Solval Transporti PSR” email “Tabella arrivi PSR mese MMMM YYYY”;
- Luca del Rio send the “Pagliacelli” and “Pagliacelli Conto Dedicato” with the details of the transport.
- Luca Pelagatti is sending the “Certificates of Analysis” to be attached to the invoices issued, as well as all the information about the contracts in place.
End of document.