SIS – Simplified Interline Settlement
Passenger Non-Prime Billing
Webcasts
Welcome to the SIS webcast!
 Audio available over this webcast or via a dial-in number
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Phone Number: +1 514 392 3303
Conference ID: 7026529
 1 hour long
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30 minute presentation
30 minute Question & Answer (Q&A) session
 Please hold all questions until the second half
 You will be unable to speak
 All questions must be typed into a Q&A window
which will appear later
 Feedback can be entered using the status
box on your screen ------------------------------>
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Welcome to the SIS webcast!
 Audio available over this webcast or via a dial-in number
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You should now be able to hear something if your
audio is working! If not, you need to dial in:
 Phone Number: +1 514 392 3303
 Conference ID: 7026529
 1 hour long


30 minute presentation
30 minute Question & Answer (Q&A) session
 Please hold all questions until the second half
 You will be unable to speak
 All questions must be typed into a Q&A window
which will appear later
 Feedback can be entered using the status
box on your screen ------------------------------>
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Overview of this webcast
 Simplified Interline Settlement Webcasts
 Rejection Memos
 Billing & Credit Memos
 Correspondence
 Central Repository (for supporting documents)
 Audit Trail
 File Formats
 Next Steps
 Questions & Answers
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Presenters
 Gianna Monsch, External Consultant
Project Management
 James Shannon, IATA
Project Coordination
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SIS Webcasts
 August 6
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Passenger Billings (including prime, sampling, auto-billing, non-prime, audit
trail, and supporting documents)
 August 7
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Integrated Settlement Data Interfaces (including IS-WEB and validation)
Cargo & Miscellaneous (including Cargo original billings and rejections)
 September 3
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General SIS Webcast (repeat of webcast done in July)
 See
http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/finance/clearing/sis/webcast.htm
for schedules and materials
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Introduction to SIS (General Webcast)
 “Integrated Settlement” is based on the principles of completely paperless
billing, invoicing, and settlement
 Benefits include:
 Data quality improvements to the billed carrier
 Billing carrier’s upload format doesn’t impact billed carrier’s download format
 Reduction in paper and courier fees and internal supply chain (paper handling)
costs
 Automation & Optional Services
 Quicker cash flow due to reduced rejection timeframes
 ‘Airline Profile’ to be a centralized database for all IS options and
permissions
 IS features discussed are subject to change
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Non-core Functionality
 Core functionality of SIS enables paperless billing and settlement.
 The non-core functionality is considered by the SIS Working Groups
to be “value-added services”; its final inclusion is dependent upon
implementation costs and airline demand and will likely be billed to
carriers separately, based on usage.
 Non-core functionality includes (but is not limited to):
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IS-XML File Format
 Non-core functionality is coloured orange on the following pages
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Interline Settlement - Now
Paper invoices, with coupon listing, coupons, rejects, supporting documents
(monthly)
Settlement sheets –
(weekly)
F3– (weekly)
Billed
Airline
Cargo IDEC File (monthly)
Pax IDEC File (monthly)
prorate
engine
GDSs
BSPs
ACH
ICH
ATPCO
(incl F&F pre IDEC
Validation)
F12 – (weekly)
F1 – net amounts of inv
F2 - summary
Cargo IDEC File (monthly)
Billing
Airline
Pax IDEC File (monthly)
prorate
engine
ARC-Compass
(NFP storage)
AIA F&F
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Recap sheets - weekly
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F&F: receives NFP value
All: May receive sales records
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Rejection, Billing, & Credit Memos – With IS
Integrated Settlement
Settlement Processes
Validation:
Billed
Airline
IS-IDEC
ICH
ACH
 Guarantees
links
between records (e.g.
“Digital
2nd andSignature”
1st RMs)
Company
 Enforces timeframes
st RM ->
and &“order”
(1Processes
Billing
Invoicing
2nd RM Central
-> 3rd RM)
 EnsuresRepository
file is properly
formed
Processes at time of Sales
ARC
COMPASS™
Receive RMs, BMs, CMs
Receive Supporting Docs
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IS-WEB
Enabling Processes
IS-XML
Enabling Processes
IS-WEB
IS-XML
IS-IDEC
Usage
File
Billing
Airline
Prorate
Engine
NFP
engine
Validation
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Send RMs, BMs, CMs
Send Supporting Docs
(either order)
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Correspondence – With IS
Integrated Settlement
Settlement Processes
Validation:
Billed
Airline
IS-IDEC
ICH
ACH
 Guarantees
links
between records (e.g.
“Digital
2nd andSignature”
1st RM)
Company
 Enforces timeframes
and &“order”
Billing
Invoicing Processes
 EnsuresCentral
file is properly
Repository
formed
Processes at time of Sales
ARC
COMPASS™
Receive Correspondence
(including attachments)
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IS-WEB
Enabling Processes
IS-XML
Enabling Processes
IS-WEB
IS-XML
IS-IDEC
Usage
File
Billing
Airline
Prorate
Engine
NFP
engine
Validation
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Send Correspondence
(including attachments)
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Correspondence – With IS
 Correspondence can include an “authority to bill” flag
which identifies when the authority to bill has been
issued
 Not tied to settlement periods like transactions in
Integrated Settlement – real-time and similar to e-mail
but via IS-WEB interface
 Validation ensures no “cross-over” – correspondence
can only be in reply to another correspondence (or 3rdstage RM) and cannot be out-of-order
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Supporting Documents – With IS
Integrated Settlement
Settlement Processes
?
IS-IDEC
Enabling Processes
Billed
Airline
IS-XML
ICH
IS-WEB
ACH
“Digital
Signature”
Company
Billing & Invoicing Processes
Central
Repository
Processes at time of Sales
ARC
COMPASS™
Enabling Processes
IS-WEB
IS-XML
IS-IDEC
Usage
File
?
Billing
Airline
Prorate
Engine
NFP
engine
* Could be used with all record types (including prime coupon billings, Cargo, etc)
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Central Repository & Supporting Docs
 What?
 Any type of supporting document (image, PDF, IS-XML, etc)
 How long?
 As long as the data is operationally required
 When?
 Before or after the associated record is uploaded (with “pending
attachments” flag, which allows for notifications if not uploaded)
 How?
 To be determined in the next phase with the help of the supplier
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Audit Trail & Rejection History
 With operational data being stored:
 Future records (e.g. rejections) don’t need supporting documents
re-attached
 IS-WEB can be used to search and take action on previous billings:
 Search & browse through all records for which your carrier billed
or was billed
 View audit trail of linked correspondences, rejections, and prime
billings
 Find outgoing correspondences that haven’t been responded to
 Go directly to appropriate action
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Audit Trail Analysis & Reporting
 Search by accounting code, coupon number, source
code, billing period, authority to bill, etc
 Drill down through tickets, coupons, tax breakdowns,
correspondences, etc
 Viewing and downloading of analysis (reporting)
available
 Actions (where applicable):
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View the rejection history
Create a rejection memo
Create correspondence
Create a billing memo
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Rejection History (example view)
Activity
Date
Record / Supporting Docs
1st Correspondence
1 May $35; “I do not agree with you …”
3rd Rejection
1 Apr
$50; Long Explanation.doc
2nd Rejection
1 Mar
$100; “See attached”; ticket.jpg
1st Rejection
1 Feb
$100; “No coupon in our system”
Prime Billing
1 Jan
$100
Create Correspondence
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Passenger File Formats
Process
Rejection Memos (incl. Sampling, but with
additional fields)
IS-IDEC
IS-XML
IS-WEB
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Correspondence (incl. Sampling, but with
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additional fields)
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Billing & Credit Memos
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Rejection & Correspondence History
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(Audit Trail)
 Subject to change based on costs and carrier demand
 See ‘IS File Formats’ and ‘Pax Prime’ webcasts for more information
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Next Steps – Sep to Dec 2008
 Webcasts through September
 RA annual meeting (September 08)
 Presentation and breakout sessions for information and discussion
 FinCom (September 08)
 Update on SIS (they strongly support the project)
 Board of Governors (December 08)
 They wish to see radical change and will decide the way forward
 They will be looking for initiatives that reduce operating costs,
improve data quality, and help to meet environmental objectives
 SIS Project Team
 Continues the momentum through to Phase 3
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Questions?
Email:
[email protected]
SIS Website:
www.iata.org/whatwedo/finance/clearing/sis/index.htm
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