This program allows you to exchange data between the R/3 Project System and Microsoft Project 98. This makes processing projects more flexible. For instance, you can start to design the structure of a project in MS Project on a lap-top during a business trip. When you come back to your office, after having finished the draft version, you can transfer the project to the R/3 Project System and incorporate it in your organizational structures. Open PS makes it possible to "take a project with you" when you visit a customer or a construction site. You make changes to the structure or schedule of a project together with your business partners and add these changes to the R/3 project in your office.

At present Open PS is intended for planning the structures and dates of projects. In general, you use it in the planning phase of a project. Although it is possible to maintain cost information in both Microsoft Project and the R/3 Project System, you cannot transfer this information from one program to another. Similarly it is not possible to transfer confirmation data from Microsoft Project to PS.

For details of the system requirements and the R/3 prerequisites, refer to Prerequisites. It is particularly important that Note 170121 has been installed in the R/3 systems with which you intend to work.

In Open PS you can transfer data in two directions, from Microsoft Project to the R/3 Project System and from the Project System to Microsoft Project. Open PS automatically checks if two projects are already linked and synchronizes them, if necessary.