Calculating the Payment Flow Automatically 
Calculating the Payment Flow Automatically
Use
In long-term, capital-intensive projects, you need detailed, accurate planning of payments into and out of the project. The planned payment flows can be derived automatically from detailed project planning.
The graphic below illustrates how planned data is transferred to Project Cash Management
Features
The system records data from the following business transactions:
As part of the asynchronous network costing, the system determines the planned payments out, based on the planned costs for externally processed activities and non-stock material components. One plan value is recorded for each payment date in an activity. The system automatically takes account of any applicable discounts and payment periods.
You can add detail to the planned data from the network by means of an invoicing plan. You can maintain invoicing plans for the following objects:
When you create an invoicing plan, the system uses only the payment data from the invoicing plan.
See
Asynchronous Network Costing and
Invoicing Plans in Networks .
In earlier releases, the payment data from the billing plan and the SD document assigned to the project for the sales order were added together.
From Release 4.6A, the system records only the payment data from the billing plan, if there is one.
The payment data calculated automatically is recorded in addition to the planned payments from manual payment planning, and displayed accordingly in reporting.
You can evaluate the payment data
by period and day using the standard reports in the Project Information System. You can also use the graphic evaluation options available or can create your own reports.