Purpose
Use this process to monitor the dates of any events connected with components in a project. This means that you can keep these dates, for instance in the procurement process, better under control.
As of Release 4.6C, it is possible to schedule the events in the Monitoring Dates transaction. You can specify the order in which the events occur and the time between events. If you then enter one date, you can schedule all the events for a component in a group.
Prerequisites
To use Monitoring Dates, you must have previously defined events in Customizing the Project System under Material ®
Monitoring Dates.You can assign reference dates to these events in Customizing.
There are four date types available, which you can assign to an event: baseline, plan, forecast, and actual. In the standard system you can use date fields from objects such as the network activity, the sales document, or the reservation as reference fields. However, you can use a customer enhancement to assign other dates as reference dates. If you have assigned a reference date to a date type, you can no longer change this date manually.
In Customizing you can also Define Statuses and Define Profiles for Monitoring Dates.
Process Flow
The system selects all the components for the objects entered.
In order to monitor different components and events together in the Dates overview, you require at least one group to which components and events are assigned.
If you have made any entry in Group in the profile, the system automatically creates an initial group, which contains all the selected components.
At this stage you can also assign a scheduling scenario to the group. This results in the events in the scenario together with their order and relative offsets being copied automatically.
Result
An overview of the dates for the components and events that are assigned to a group appears. On the dates overview you can filter or sort according to criteria, edit the dates or highlight date variances. For more information, see
Functions in the Dates Overview.