Executing Easy Cost Planning 

Prerequisites

You are authorized to maintain the project structure in the Project Builder .

The WBS elements where you want to calculate costs must be flagged as planning elements. You set the relevant indicator in the Project Builder WBS overview, in the Basic Data tab page.

Use simulation versions if you want to create alternative plans.

You must have entered the following settings in Project System customizing, under Costs ® Planned Costs ® Easy Cost Planning and Execution Services:

·        You have defined a CO version for Easy Cost Planning.

In the standard, the values calculated in Easy Cost Planning are recorded in CO version 000.

However, if you want to use Easy Cost Planning for preliminary costing of complex projects, you should stipulate that the values are recorded in a CO version other than 000.

Why?

After preliminary costing, concurrent planning using networks takes place when the project starts. However, the system can only record the data from the network costing in CO version 000.

You define a CO version other than 000 for values from Easy Cost Planning so that the system does not add that data and the data from network costing together.

·        You have maintained a costing variant for Easy Costing Planning and assigned it to a project profile by means of a planning profile.

We recommend that you use either costing variant PS06, which we deliver in the standard, or a copy of it.

·        You have used the execution profile to stipulate which execution services (purchase requisitions, material reservations, and so on) are available to the user.

·        The Integrated Planning indicator in the Controlling tab of the project profile must not be set. You cannot use Easy Cost Planning for plan-integrated projects.

For most information on the settings, go to the Project System IMG and read the documentation under Costs ® Planned Costs ® Easy Cost Planning and Execution Services..

Procedure

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       1.      Logistics or Accounting ® Project System ®Project ® Project Builder.

The Project Builder screen.

       2.      If you want to calculate costs for all the planning elements in your project, access your project in the Project Builder .

If you want to calculate costs for just one planning element, access that element only in the Project Builder.

       3.      Choose .  

The Create Costing dialog box appears, containing default values for the costing variant and costing data.

       4.      Confirm or change the default values and choose  Create Costing.

The Easy Cost Planning screen appears.

If you accessed your whole project in the Project Builder, the system displays the whole project structure at top left, under the heading Costing Structure.

If you access only one planning element for your project, the costing structure shown comprises only the WBS element and all the WBS elements subordinate to it.

The planning elements are flagged as follows: .

WBS elements that are not planning elements are flagged as follows: .

For details of further processing and a detailed description of the functions, read Cost Planning with Easy Cost Planning.

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