Manual Payment Planning (SAP Library

Manual Payment Planning

Use

This function is particularly useful in the early stages of planning, for planning revenues and expenditures in one or more WBS elements. Manual payment planning does not require detailed project structures.

Features

Manual payment planning includes the following:

Three standard layouts from which you can choose how your payment planning screen is to appear
Alternatively, you can configure the planning layout to meet your specific needs.

In Project System customizing, you determine the look of the payment planning screen and assign it to a planner profile.

See Individual Planning Layout and Planner Profile

You can switch between the planning layouts at any time.

You can plan by period and year.

The system distributes the annual values for payment planning to the individual periods per the distribution key. We deliver a number of predefined standard distribution keys, or you can define your own.

You can carry out payment planning for:

Individual WBS elements
Ranges of WBS elements
WBS element groups (sets)

Note

You can only carry out manual payment planning within an FM area. If you try to use a WBS element interval or group of WBS elements from different FM areas, the system takes up only the WBS elements which belong to the WBS element specified first. The error log, which you can access at any time by choosing Extras ® Error log, shows the WBS element for which no payment planning took place.

You can plan in controlling area currency, object currency, or transaction currency.

Currency translation takes place as of the valuation date entered in plan version 0 (CO).

You can plan payments per object and commitment item in different transaction currencies.

The system automatically translates the transaction currencies into controlling area currency. You can configure your planning layout in such a way that both currencies are displayed.

If you enter plan values for a commitment item in a WBS element in more than one transaction currency, you can display the total for the plan payments in controlling area currency.

You can reverse data entries, step by step, at any time.
The system records the plan payments in totals records and line items. This is done as of the middle of the period.
The planned payments are included in the planned interest calculation.

For more information, refer to Planned Interest Calculation .